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Well Christmas has come and gone, and time to celebrate the coming of the New Year…

To end the exciting year of 2009 with a bang, we wanted to show off our favourite images from Hyggelig’s Hallways taken in the last 12 months.

To make it more fun, we’ve decided to offer prizes!

Vote on your favourite, each vote goes into the draw to win a Hyggelig Session, including an desk portrait of your choice (Valued at $200.00) *

The portrait with the most votes, will be printed as a 12 x 16 canvas and presented to the clients from that session (Valued at $250.00)

To vote, just comment on this blog post, and advise which number ( ie * 1 * ) you vote for!

So share with friends and family! Email, facebook, or twitter whichever you choose, just go forth and spread the word!

Janet

* Only 1 vote per person, per image. You may vote on multiple images, all votes will be checked to ensure valid. Canvas cannot be transferred/substitued. Session can be taken by winner or transferred into a voucher.

Voting ends 10 Jan and winner announced 15 Jan

We wanted to share the awesome highlights of our year and remember to thank all the wonderful people who contributed so much to our wedding “Palmerpalooza” and honeymoon world tour while wishing everyone a Merry & Happy Christmas.

We celebrate Christmas Eve as a Danish tradition, so we’re still full from last night! We dined on awesome Roast Pork, Caramlised potatoes, red cabbage, Duck… and for dessert the tradional Risalamande – a rice and almond pudding, served with hot cherry sauce. Michael and I both won the almond prize! Great husband and wife teamwork! Presents were handed out and shared… great times…

Enjoy your day, stay tuned for some exciting ideas next week! Janet

My last session for the year was with another repeat client, Mstr O is the same age as his older brother Mstr L was when I first met the family.

Both just as gorgeous and fun to photograph!!

Now that my last session is done, its time to celebrate the year by opening a competition showcasing Hyggelig’s portraits of 2009 watch out for updates as there are prizes up for grabs!

Janet

And I want to know how it made it here so quickly!?

I’m preparing to shut the office for the Christmas holidays, last minute photo shoots and client orders are being processed. Meanwhile Christmas shopping might just wait until next week…

Here are a couple of photos from the last few months that never made it to a blog preview, but I thought I’d do a few in this last week just to round out the year.

Subscribe and follow us heading into 2010 and there will be lots of fun and exciting specials coming up to bring the new year in!…. Janet

Just a quick little post to update on my client/mum to be… we didnt manage to get exactly 4weeks due to overseas commitments! But looking forward to a 20week update with a sneak peek at the little bundle inside

I wanted to share some gorgeous wee ones from my new extended family taken at the recent family reunion and a pretty scene from behind Reeftons old railway station…  as Im powering through work in time for Christmas… Janet

Don’t you hate getting a cold in summer? I do… so I have a nasty cough, and a very dubious growl for a voice. This would explain why I’m still awake @ 3am, since I had a 4hour nap this afternoon!
I know I said next post would be some Robbie reunion Babes, but I promised myself that I’d have something up today to share, so tonight its Miss KC and Miss H… They’re mum is an old friend of Michael’s, great to be able to catch up and of course I had my camera with me… Awesome to meet Miss H for the first time, and be able to hang out for a while.. & Miss KC is such a doting big sister! full gallery coming your way soon … Janet

My first post for December is going to be a big one! What a busy but amazing couple of weeks we’ve had.

Michael and I came home from New Zealand this week, a great break for the 2 of us, great for me to see more of my Michael’s homeland than before and boy did the camera get a work out. I had a bit of fun experimenting with some landscape photography, something I used to do a lot more of but certainly not for a while or professionally.

So many great images/recorded memories of the family reunion, back in the hometown of Michael’s parents on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand, Reefton. I wanted to show a brief (as brief as can be) preview for the family, but also to talk about the reason I love my job so much.  This brings back to our business name of Hyggelig Photography, the family weekend was FULL of Hyggelig moments. Whether it was Uncles & Aunties sharing childhood stories around the kitchen table @ midnight, or watching the new generation of babes meeting for the 1st time and playing soccer in the yard.

While I was away, my best friend lost a beloved family member to cancer and it really hit home to me and my Husband, how important this reunion was to us and everyone included. Family is such an important part of our lives whether they are relatives or friends we consider to be family every moment should certainly be treasured. This is why we believe so strongly in the power of photography, and the essence of what is our business, recording those Hyggelig moments.

Can you remember the last time you had some fun portraits of you and your family? How about your best friends? If not, you need to email me!

Next post, the “Babes of the Robbie Reunion”…

Janet