Day in the Life 2011 Contest Finalists! Vote for your Favorite Image

Day in the Life 2011 Contest Finalists

We need your Vote!

Below are the 10 finalists from our 2011 Day in the Life contest.  What amazing entries this year!  Thank you so much.  I hope you had fun, too.  Now, we need your vote!  Get your family, friends, friends friends and so on!  The poll is at the bottom of this post.  The image number is posted ABOVE each image.

Voting ends on Thursday, September 22 at midnight. One vote per person, please.

We will announce the winner on September 23!

Our top three winners will receive one of the following:

First place:   “Routines” Session at your home. This will be the kick-off to a new type of session option. yay.

Second place:   Studio Session with our Associates

Third place: $50 Studio product Credit

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Day in the Life 2011

Day in the Life 2011

Sharing Our Own World With You

Dear Readers,

If you know us well, you know what we do 365 days a year.  We document your life & your love.  And you also know how much we enjoy it, too.  If you don’t know us very well.  You’re about to get to know us more than you thought.

Every year around this season we stop for 12 hours and turn the cameras around to face our own lives.  We love it for many reasons.  We are photojournalists and it’s ingrained in our souls.  We can not live without our cameras.  We also understand how important these fleeting, but priceless moments will mean to us years from now.  One year makes a huge difference is so many ways.  It’s so great to see how we’ve grown and changed, even through the daily routines that make up our lives.

This year our theme for the contest was documenting your routines, however mundane or exciting they are.  They make our worlds go round and round.  We all know that without them we would have chaos.  And our lives are hectic enough as it is.

Some of you were inspired enough to commit to the task of turning the cameras on yourselves.  We guarantee you will appreciate it down the road.  You have until September 15 at 3:oo pm to submit your 5 favorite images for our contest. Details are posted below.

For now, sit back and get to know us a little better.

Click on each picture to view the slideshow and enjoy.

LLI’s Videographer, David Morley’s Day in Video!

Contest Details for Submissions

Please email your photos to mary@lovelifeimages.com on or before 3:00 pm, September 15th. You may submit up to 5 images per family.

Our contest finalist will be posted on this blog on September 16th for voting by our readers.

We will announce our winner on September 23rd!

First place:   “Routines” Session at your home. This will be the kick-off to a new type of session option. yay.

Second place:   Studio Session with our Associates

Third place: $50 Studio product Credit

Now for the Rules:

1. Five photos per entry, per family.  We will not accept entries that have more than five photos.

2. Photos MUST be taken on September 13th, 2011  12:00 am – 11:59 pm

3. Prizes are good for one year from issue date and do not include products or sales tax.

Day in the Life Contest Rules & Submission Dates

Documenting your Routines

Day in the Life September 13, 2011 Contest Rules

Please email your photos to mary@lovelifeimages.com on or before 3:00 pm, September 15th. You may submit up to 5 images per family.

Our contest finalist will be posted on this blog on September 16th for voting by our readers.

We will announce our winner on September 23rd!

First place:   “Routines” Session at your home. This will be the kick-off to a new type of session option. yay.

Second place:   Studio Session with our Associates

Third place: $50 Studio product Credit

Now for the Rules:

1. Five photos per entry, per family.  We will not accept entries that have more than five photos.

2. Photos MUST be taken on September 13th, 2011  12:00 am – 11:59 pm

3. Prizes are good for one year from issue date and do not include products or sales tax.

Routines. They make our world go round and round.  They help guide us through our daily lives. They keep us from going too crazy.  They are learned from the past, incorporated into the present and shared for generations. They come in many forms.  They are absolutely needed to survive.

And we love to document them.  And so should you.

So, our contest for you viewers during our September 13, 2011 Day in the Life is to document your favorite family routine that you are included in or like to observe. As I mentioned in an earlier post, this can be anything!  Bath time, bed time, breakfast, play time, reading, games, chatting in bed, walk in the park, ice cream after dinner etc….  You get the gist.  Whatever it is that you do daily to make your world keep going, document it or have it documented.  We want to see it and we’d love for you to share it with us.

Please email your photos to mary@lovelifeimages.com on or before 3:00 pm, September 15th. You may submit up to 5 images per family.

Our contest finalist will be posted on this blog on September 16th for voting by our readers.

We will announce our winner on September 23rd!

First place:   “Routines” Session at your home. This will be the kick-off to a new type of session option. yay.

Second place:   Studio Session with our Associates

Third place: $50 Studio product Credit

Now for the Rules:

1. Five photos per entry, per family.  We will not accept entries that have more than five photos.

2. Photos MUST be taken on September 13th, 2011  12:00 am – 11:59 pm

3. Prizes are good for one year from issue date and do not include products or sales tax.


Ariel and Rob’s Annapolis Wedding

Photography by Associate Joe Wang

What a fantastic wedding this was!  Ariel and Rob are such a loving couple.  I had been looking forward to their wedding since their engagement session last fall.

Congratulations you two!!

Ceremony and Reception: Governor Calvert House

Dress Designer: Pronovias

Hair: Morgan Gerard

Makeup: Morgan Gerard

Florist: York Flowers

Cake: Fiona’s

Ceremony music: Mark Sylvester

Reception music: Steve Hoffman

Honeymoon location: Greece









Now Presenting, for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson!

Their first dance was incrediblely romantic.
And everyone danced the night away.

Day in the Life 2011 Announced

Our Lives Uncensored

Day in the Life Contest 2011

September 13, 2011 12:01 am – 11:59 pm

It’s that time of year again where we get the opportunity to share with you the intimate little aspects of our  daily routines and the unexpected moments that make up our lives.  All of us can relate to each others lives with it’s similarities and conflicts, but somehow each of us come out of a 24 hour period with something unlike any other day.  Thank goodness or we’d be bored to death.

We, of course, want our audience to participate and share something special about their lives too.  This year we’re going to mix it up a little. We want you to document your most favorite daily routine you share with your family or family member. This can be anything!  Bath time, breakfast, play time, reading, games, chatting in bed, walk in the park, ice cream after dinner etc….  You get the gist.  Whatever it is, document it or have it documented.  We want to see it and we’d love for you to share it with us.

Click on Day in the Life 2010 for inspiration.  We even had video from our Wedding Filmagrapher David Morley.

Here’s a recap from year’s past.  Enjoy.


Mark you calendars!  More details to come soon.


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