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Competico’s Winter Holiday Photo Contest 2009

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Competico. All opinions are 100% mine.

You may have noticed that most of my photos this month so far have been Christmas in theme. I love Christmas and everything leading up to it. I also enjoy photographing the moments around the holiday. I have a ton of Holiday photos from over the years. I wonder if one of my photos is good enough to win a generous cash prize up to $50,000 in Competico’s Winter Holiday Photo Contest 2009.

This Holiday Photo Contest is open until January 12, 2010. However, you only have until tomorrow, Thursday December 17, 2009 9:00pm EST, to get a bonus opportunity. If you join the competition by tomorrow at 9:00pm you can submit TWO photos for the price of one. It is $100 to submit one photo into this competition, so getting two for that price is a nice way to double your chances in the competition.

Once your photo is submitted it becomes part of the voting pool. Right now there are only 6 photos in the pool and from the looks of them I think that maybe the photos I took on the 12th and 13th would be in the running. Well, the one from the 13th is the best so far so maybe just that one for now. I may have to look back to some from last year or from Eva’s first Christmas to find the best ones.

The way voting works is that all Competico users can vote for their favorite photos and then those votes along with the judges votes count towards choosing the winners. The top three winners share in the cash prize with the top winner getting 60% of the winnings, 2nd place getting 25% and 3rd place gets 15%.

So, what are you waiting for? Get out those photos of grandma trimming the tree with the grandkids. Did you capture your little rascal grabbing a department store Santa’s beard? How about the pets and kids all in Santa or elf hats? Maybe a living nativity scene. Don’t have any holiday photos?Go out and shoot some. Just get to it right away so you can submit two for the price of one by tomorrow night at 9:00pm.

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One of my co-workers left this past Friday and today when I arrived there was this sad dog sitting at her chair. I know who put it there and they spoke for all of us who miss her. She didn’t get fired or anything, she had to leave because she was moving. Anyway, we will be missing her with us.

the big box of awesome contest is going really well. There are so many people who have entered. Although I am finding that the other bloggers that I know are snooping around in my big box of awesome. They’ve gone through it and decided to reveal many of the items found within. That means I’m not going to have many other things to reveal on my own. I guess that means I have to add a couple more things in the box. If you are interested in finding out what items have already been revealed but please go visit these bloggers.

The MAN from IZEA
Ted Murphy of Ted.me and IZEA –Win a Box Full of Random Stuff

My I’m Not A Famous Blogger Crew!
Tim of The Real Tim Jones – A Peek Inside the Big Box of Awesome
Karen of The Pond –Win BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!

IZEA Insiders – If you don’t join my insider crew, check one of these folks out.
Corrin of Oh Hey, What’s Up – BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!
Julie of Julie’s Journal – The BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome
Steven of Steven-Sanders.com – Win BenSpark’s Big Box Of Awesome Giveaway

Bloggers I read and who read me
Christine of Christine the Curmudgeon –The BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome
Chica of Photo Projectz – Another reveal in Bensparks Big Box of Awesome!
Anna of Beth and Cory’s Mom – Another Peek

Today I came home to two boxes filled with awesome. The first was a 1 TB FreeAent XTreme external hard drive from Seagate. I won that from a contest on The Dirty Shirt. I will use that hard drive as a second backup for all of my photos. Because we are using digital cameras, digital video cameras and many other forms of capturing digital images the bulk of my relationship with Allison has been captured digitally. We would both be devastated if we lost those items. So my plan is to backup my images each month and place a second hard drive into a fireproof box. I think this will be the best way to ensure that we do not lose precious photos and memories.

The other box was filled with some items for Christmas. So I really can’t do a blog post about them right now. That information is going to drive Allison nuts. Sorry hon. much of this post has been written with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I connected the wireless headset that I purchased the other day as my Christmas gift from Mimi and Grandpa Dano. The most part it’s worked really really well but I do need to train Dragon more.