Hello all,

We started a contest a few weeks ago to introduce our new 2013 Madchen Memberships.   Memberships with us are a great way to get fabulous and fun portraits at a great savings!   The fist part of the contest had people sending us emails with the names of some contenders of our would be memberships. You can see our post from that part of the contest HERE.   Now we are all going to vote on which lucky lady is going to win her very own 2013 Madchen Studios Holiday Membership so that she can partake in 4 of our most talked about sessions.  Valentines Day mini, Easter mini, Halloween and our Santa sessions are all included!  Here’s a sweet little image of my daughter from our recent Valentine’s Mini Session.   

Contest rules :

• I will put a number above the images, the number will correspond to each entrant.  Please note this number in your comment.
• Voting will close on February 3rd, at midnight
• Only one vote per IP address will be counted.
• Your name must be provided in your comment and you must be a member of our facebook group and remain a member (at least until the winner is announced) in order to have your vote count. (ps why wouldn’t you want to see gorgeous photos everyday in your facebook feed.

Please note as always, because I am a photographer and not a professional contest maker, we may have to add some rules as we go, just in case we’ve missed something.

Good luck to everyone, we had some great entries, I have to say thank you  from the bottom of my heart for participating and making my job as fun as it is rewarding!

 

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If you would like some more information on our sessions, please feel free to go to our website , send us an email at rachel@madchenstudios.com or call us at 403-526-5886 as we love to chit chat!

My family is the most important thing to me.  This group of sweet misfits are part of my nearest and dearest.    Most of us live far apart from one another, but we manage to see each other twice a year.   This year was a “Heaton” Christmas so many of them travelled down to Medicine Hat so that my parents could host and entertain this year during the holiday.   My father spends a lot of his free time tracing back our family tree and is very involved with his hobby of Genealogy.    He wanted nothing more than updated photos of everyone and perhaps even a photo of all of us together.   Unfortunately with me photographing 20 plus people there is no way that I could get my kids and I ready for a photo at the same time, so I decided that I would shoot all of our families separately    Then, using the same lighting, studio set and camera settings that I would make one very large streamlined photo of us all together.  Then it would look like we were all there at the studio at the same time.   So far it’s looking great.   I photograph my family, my brother’s family and my mom and dad .   Wish me luck.  I am so happy that I was able to do this for my family that has been such a support to me and my littles.

 

I see these kind of posts often where they start with “so sorry I haven’t been blogging” or “it’s been awhile since my last post”   , and *add eye roll here * I am finding myself doing the very same thing.    There were no personal New Years posts, birthday posts, or any posts of that nature. I was busy working and to tell you the truth putting off this post.   I was thinking maybe I wouldn’t post it all.but this blog has always been a sounding blog for the studio, so that I can share the studio experiences with my clients, friends and family.   If my kids were very sick or if we had a pet die I would have written it.    This one seems a little harder because for months and months I felt that I had failed, which everyday I am learning more and more is not the case.  Marty and I separated at the beginning of November .   Everyone is good and healing and with the beautiful weather coming I can not only see sunshine on Medicine Hat, but in my beautiful family and children.

 

 

That’s the end of the melancholy, there are bigger and better things in this world to concentrate on, and this attitude is not only new mantra in my life, but its let me settle down and realize what’s important.   My kids, creating awesome experiences and creating wonderful keepsakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My two daughters, (the oldest took the photo)the son most likely has his nose in the ds