Round 1 Winners...

So Round 1 of the "Essence of Childhood" portrait contest has come to an end.  Thank you everyone for making the first round so successful.  I can't believe the Blog turn out for the last week and a half during the voting.  The final count of hits to the Blog was 2553!  That is SO INCREDIBLE!  The final total of votes caste was 1707, with the farthest coming from Australia, Greece and the UK.

So I guess it is time to get right down to business.  I know what you are all waiting to find out.  You want to know who the winners are that are moving on to Round 2, don't you?  Okay, okay, keep your pants on!  Let me just recap how the points were totaled to get the winners.  The Blog poll votes counted for 40% of the total.  My personal favorites counted for a measly 20% of the total points.  And the panel of judges COMBINED scores counted for the other 40% of the total points.  So even though it might have appeared that one was far behind in the Blog poll votes, there was still a possibility that they could pull ahead of the others.  So here we go.................

Poll #1 (0-24 months)

The top two winners are:
Addison & Anna Kathryn

Poll #2 (0-24 months)

The top two winners are:
Camdyn & Karis

Poll #3 (2-5 years)

The top three winners are:
Avery, Boone & Claire

Poll #4 (6-13 years)

The top three winners are:
Sawyer, Keeleigh & Kendall

Congratulations to you all!  You should be hearing from me throughout the day to get you set up with your mini session to move you into Round 2.  If for any reason any of the Round 1 finalist cannot make it to one of the dates of the mini sessions, an alternate will be chosen based on the child with the next highest total of scores.  Please make every effort to get back to me if I don't reach you today.  You can always email me ( indigoskyephoto@bellsouth.net ) if I am not in the studio and don't answer the phone.  The mini sessions will be set up on a first come first serve basis, so if you are one of the first to speak to me then you will be able to chose your date and time first as well. 

For those children that didn't move on to Round 2, you are all still winners in my eyes.  I have never met a smile that I didn't want to photograph and each and every one of you are certainly no exception.  And let's not forget, you will each still be receiving a prize for entering the contest.