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February 2013: Ten on Ten (Blizzard Edition)

By Anna Sawin

This month’s ten on ten is miraculously brought to you by the return of the Internet, despite acres of snow and 38% of my town still without power. Blizzard Charlotte and her friend Nemo (or whatever this mess was called) came a knocking and delivered what appears to be about 21″ of snow to our…

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Managing Personal Photos: Part 1

By Anna Sawin

As much as I don’t love the cold, I dearly love January. I love the quietness, and the permission to clean up and start fresh. With the wide open year before us, we can dream about new goals and plans and new systems and efficiencies and the chance to get it right. I love the…

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January 2013: Ten on Ten

By Anna Sawin

A fresh new year! And what a great opportunity to look at things with a fresh eye when the calendar swings around again. I’m a day late after some time this week at Mystic Seminars, an intense winter meet-up of photographers from all over, but full of new ideas, too–watch out 2013! I love this…

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12 Days of Joy: The Grand Prize Winner (and a few other thoughts)

By Anna Sawin

Hug someone you love. Well. Back on December 7 when I started a simple little holiday contest, the 12 Days of Joy, the world seemed like a different place. Despite grownup problems—the aftermath of Sandy, fiscal cliffs and hundreds of other stories in the news—it was still a world in which where first-graders, despite those…

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Days 10 &11, in which we announce FOUR winners!

By Anna Sawin

With just a few days left in the 12 Days of Joy, I’m very excited to introduce the prizes for days 10 and 11–a seat in one of three photography classes I’ll be holding this winter. Of course, if I’ve drawn the names of someone who would rather have someone else take the photos, you…

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Days 8 & 9: 12 Days of Joy

By Anna Sawin

Oh Comcast. I think you might need a little coal in your stocking this year. I had an extremely long and not altogether fruitful private service call today, and I did resist the temptation to say “that’s what she said” during the whole thing, though, readers, I tell you–I had AMPLE opportunity to bring out…

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December 2012: Ten on Ten

By Anna Sawin

 I love this ten on ten project–-a passionate group of lovely and amazing photographers f taking ten images, one hour apart on one day out of the month, documenting life as it happens around them. On the tenth of every month, we post our ten images, and if you follow our links, you’ll make it…

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Day 6 and 7: The Twelve Days of Joy!

By Anna Sawin

Well, due to a little Internet snafu yesterday, I couldn’t post yeaterday’s winner, so you get TWO today, one for yesterday and one for today. And for both, the prize is simple and elegant: a signature matted print. These prints are not your average enlargement, but instead are printed on 100% cotton Hahnemuehle fine art…

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Day 5 of the 12 Days of Joy: A Square Portrait Album!

By Anna Sawin

It’s the annual kick off of Christmas in our town this evening–the Stonington Stroll–and we’re just back from an evening of tree-lighting-no-dinner-just-cookies-and-hot-cocoa-and-caroling-and-fun. So I’m a little late on posting today’s winner, but guess what–she already knows who she is, because I saw her out on the town this evening! So, Laurie Wilkinson, you are the…

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Day 4 of the 12 Days of Joy: A Canvas Wrap!

By Anna Sawin

Canvas wraps have been one of our most popular items this year, second only to the matted signature print, but more about those tomorrow! Families and wedding couples have been choosing them all year, and our most popular size is the 16×24–large enough to enjoy, but not so big that you can only hang it…

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