HUGE congrats to our 16 winner!!! E-mails will be send out today to each vendor with your e-mail so please give 48 hours to hear about your prize.  And a HUGE thank you to EVERYONE who made our 1 year birthday FABULOUS!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY L&L
For those of you who have been following Lemonade and Lenses for a while now, you would know we did not start out as a magazine.  We actually started out, last June, as a gathering group for photographers in the Cincinnati area.  L&L has grown so much in the last year! From a local group, to a Facebook page, to a blog, to a magazine.  It has given me the opportunity to meet and work with some of the most amazing photographer in the industry, share their work and their knowledge to help thousands of others photographers, and to promote kindness and support throughout our community.  In celebration of L&L turning 1 we planned an amazing giveaway with 12 AMAZING prizes from 12 AMAZING vendors.   We also have planned our long awaited release of The August Collaboration for this Friday!   Along with some featured sessions we have a pretty fun week planned out!!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS
Below you can find our 12 AMAZING prizes that you can win this week.  Each prize will be awarded to one winner, with the last prize having 5 winners.   That is 16 chances to win!! All you have to do is make sure you are a fan of each of the vendors below on Facebook! I made it easy for you, each prize has a link to their Facebook page below it!  Then we would love it if you would share our birthday giveaway on your wall.   All you have to do it come up with some catchy line, like L&L is having a B-day giveaway, tag our page, and link to this blog post.  Once you have browsed around all our AMAZING vendors Facebook pages and shared the giveaway,  come back here and leave a comment below with your name, e-mail address, niche and link to your fb page where you shared the giveaway.  The contest will run from today through Sunday, June 17th, till 11:59EST.  On Monday, June 18th, each winner will be random generated.  Please make sure you leave your e-mail in the comment or I wont have a way of letting you know you won!  Winners will be posted here as well as sent an e-mailed.

Please know that comments have to be approved before they show up so if your comment does not appear right away it’s okay!!

PRIZE ONE
Mini Diana Camera (Donated by Clickin Moms)

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The Diana Mini is the ultra-compact, petite version of the Diana F+ camera. This little queen of convenience allows you to shoot square format or half-frame pictures using standard 35mm film – that’s 72 rectangular half-frames or 36 square images on one roll!

PRIZE TWO
Donated by Clickin Moms

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Clickin Moms is a subscription-based community of over 12,500 artists, hobbyists, and professional photographers.  Their mission is to provide women with a safe and supportive community in which they can share images, form friendships, network as businesswomen, find their passion, and grow as artists.

PRIZE THREE
Donated by PRODPI

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Photo and Press Printing lab for the professional photographer.

PRIZE FOUR
Donated by Michelle L Morris

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The Unpacked Catalogue, a 64 page downloadable PDF Source Book, is packed with everything needed to execute Boutique School Photography from start to finish, including how to use this excellent revenue generator to maintain steady portrait bookings throughout the year.

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“I’ve really found a way to gain excellent exposure to the right families for my target market/clientele and make money in the process.  The schools I’ve selected to work with have been the absolute backbone for my continued bookings throughout the year for standard child and family sessions.  Boutique School Photography gives parents another option (a better option) for “school photos” that they really crave – something more custom.  All the while I’m able to drive traffic to my site and market myself, my brand and my passion… child and family photography.  I’ve written the Unpacked Catalogue like I would write to my best friend about how to take on this new project. I talk about my failures, my successes and everything in between – in nitty gritty detail.  This Catalogue is exactly what I would have wanted years ago stepping into this niche.” – Michelle L Morris

PRIZE FIVE
Donated by Kelly Moore
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Great looking, high quality camera bags…. that don’t look like camera bags.

PRIZE SIX
Donated by Lilian.Grace
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lilian.grace features products that are inspired by heirloom vintage pieces . . . with a chic elegance and natural organic feel

PRIZE SEVEN
Donated by I shoot.
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A line of apparel and accessories for photographers. What do YOU Shoot? Tell the world with “I Shoot” gear! Created for individuals with a passion for photography!

PRIZE EIGHT
Donated by Lexi Vornberg
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This guide is for the established photographer who would like to make their business more boutique.  The guide is written from the perspective of a senior portrait photographer but can be related to any portrait business.

PRIZE NINE
Donated by This Little Light Prop Shop
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Made of easy to clean, high quality white vinyl this set of 9 posing bags make posing babies so much easier. Prefilled by hand with dry beans and sewn with durable nylon thread, they conform to babies position making them very easy to use.

PRIZE TEN
Donated by Plumeria Album Design
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Plumeria Album Design is a custom album design service for photographers. Busy photographers who have better things to do than spend hours and hours designing albums, or who just plain don’t like dealing with the album design process. Use that time to shoot more sessions, catch up on emails or take care of the dreaded accounting. Spend more time with your family and friends.
Kate designs clean and classic album designs that showcase your photos that you’ve worked hard on.

PRIZE ELEVEN
Donated by Cloud Dust Photography
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The UNposing guide is a 20page guide designed to help photographers who feel like they are stuck in a rut when it comes to photographing children.  It’s full of tips/tricks to help photographers achieve a modern take on posing.  The guide is presized at 4.5×5 so that it can be easily printed out at your convenience.

PRIZE TWELVE
Donated by L&L
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5 lucky winners will be given a free digital subscription to the L&L magazine for the rest of 2012.  That is our June Issue – our December Issue.

The cover contest.  Will stay the same.  I like the way I re-structured it and we will keep it that way.  If you didn’t know it was restructured then you can read about it under “cover contest”.

The magazine.  From the May issue on, the magazine will still be available in both print and digital.   The print copy will stay at 25.00 and the digital copy will be 5.00.  I know A LOT of people will be upset over this and I’m sorry.  There are costs to L&L as with everything, hosting, design, advertising, editor, etc…  That’s life.  Our issues are becoming PACKED with great information and I know for a fact photographers spend hundreds of dollars on templates, etc.  5.00 is not a lot and it will help cover the cost of L&L and keep it going.  All the photographers we feature put a lot of work into our articles which make our issues PACKED FULL of great information.  We are also restructuring the issues a little to include as much information as they can.  Please note all photographers who we feature will receive our digital copy at no cost to them.

Submissions. I want to feature AS MANY photographers as I can in each issue, and I mean as many.  All random images will be requested through fb like I have been doing.  I like it like that cause I can quickly look through images and find one that fits what we need and send e-mails out rather quickly.   It’s also easy because I don’t know where I can fit an image till I start to put the issue together.  That way I can request images as spots for them come up and feature more photographers and photographers can share their work with other at the same time.  Win-Win.  Everything else in the magazine will be articles accompanied by eye candy.  I want to make sure our issues are PACKED full of great information, not just beautiful images!  All this will be listed under submissions.  So only article submission will be accepted from now on out.

Advertising.   This will also change a little bit but will be listed to the left for those who are interested in it.

I want to also note to help put what time I have available for L&L to good use I will be spending less time on our fb page and less time answering e-mails.  I need to put my business and family first again.  I will start a Q&A page on our blog that will answer most questions and add to them if more come up.   I will also be redesigning the blog to be more simple and easier to find thing, like the issues, Q&A, etc.  So hopefully less questions will come up because things will be easier to find.

I hope all this makes L&L better for all of us.  Don’t worry change is good and in this case needed.  I’m so thrilled that a little project I started 10 months ago has grown into a place and magazine that photographers LOVE and I want nothing more then to continue to run this group and put these issues together.  These changes are so I can do this, remember I am only one person.  Please leave your thoughts below, I would love to hear them.  Or if you have any ideas that you think would make L&L better for everyone, please share too.
Thank you guys for being awesome!!
Lexi