Happy Friday, mamas! Just wanted to remind you that you’ve got 11 more days to submit photos this month for our snapshot contest. The August theme is “hanging out.” Yesterday we received the snapshot you see above of a little boy hanging out by the pool and a butterfly hanging out on his nose! Once in a lifetime kind of snapshot, don’t ya think?
Your “hanging out” photos can be of almost anything — kids literally hanging around in trees, on monkey bars, in a baby sling, or just hanging out at home on the sofa.We bet you’ve already got quite a few photos that would fall into this category.
Remember that the winner of the snapshot contest gets a FREE photo session with photographer extraordinnaire, Melinda Worthington of MJW Photography. (Click here to see her work.) And the winner will also get to choose her favorite shot of the session and get a huge 16×20 wall print of it. To enter the contest, send up to five photos per month to this address: gwen@nwaMotherlode.com. Photos are judged on emotional impact, or, as we like to call it, “the Awwwwww or Wow factor.” You might even find a few of them featured in our Polaroid frame at the top of the homepage!





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I signed up for the first class, which happened last Sunday, and it was GREAT. I finally understand what all those buttons on my camera mean! Mindy even taught us how to shoot using the manual settings. (The two snapshots you see here were taken during our class and no “auto-focus” or flash was used. Beautiful baby Cora was such a good sport and didn’t mind at all when seven camera-wielding mothers came at her on the front lawn. The picture at right is my 6-year-old son Jack, who agreed to be photographed because he was wearing his “cool dinosaur shirt.”)
The photos will be featured in our photo gallery at the bottom of this page (and some will show up in our Polaroid frame at the top of this page). At the end of the month, the panel of judges will pick some finalists from photos submitted in July. Then those finalists will have a shot at the grand prize, which is a free photo session with 













