To celebrate this shiny new year (a very special year for me because I’m getting married!) , I’m giving away a free portrait session! Yes, you heard it….free!
You don’t even have to be engaged — this shoot can be for your family, you and your pet iguana, you and your already very married spouse or just you! You can even be one of my past clients, current client (you would win an extra session) or a potential client who hasn’t booked yet.
Entering this giveaway will be ridiculously easy to do, just read the instructions carefully!
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TO ENTER (you must do all of these):
1. “like” connie lyu photography’s facebook page
2. “like” this post directly from my blog (the “like” button immediately below the post).
3. leave a comment telling me: what/who you would like this session to be for (you have to be one of the recipients) and what you envision for your session in terms of location/theme (can be simple!).
remember: you must leave a comment to qualify for this contest.
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for extra entries/chances to win:
4. tweet about this giveaway on twitter and leave me an additional comment on this post.
5. blog about this giveaway on your blog and leave an additional comment with the link!
THE GOODS:
The winner will receive: 1 hour portrait session anywhere within LA county (unless you have an idea for a really cool spot, then i’m definitely open to reconsider) and a DVD of all high-res, edited images!
DEADLINE:
This deadline is February 3rd, at midnight PST. The winner will be announced Februrary 4th, 2012.
EDIT: GIVEAWAY ENDED! CHECK HERE FOR THE WINNER!
04 Jan 2012 @ 7:51 pm
i entered to win!!!!!
http://connielyu.com/2012/01/uncategorized/portrait-session-giveaway-news-press/
& hopefully i do
you are a beautiful photographer with the quirky-chic style i love!
she did my old piano teachers engagement and wedding photos and hopefully i win a sister sesh! something fun and youthful in LA or LB.
xoxo
jen
04 Jan 2012 @ 7:54 pm
http://twoticketstothesea.tumblr.com/
i blogged it!
<3
04 Jan 2012 @ 7:57 pm
Hey Connie!
Happy New Year! Jee and I absolutely loved how our last two photo shoots captured the major events in our lives (our engagement and our wedding). Now I think we would love a photo shoot that could capture our daily routine here at the St. John Cafe. Maybe “a day in the life of the St. Johns.” (e.g. Making cappuccinos in the morning, devotions, cooking a meal together, playing a game, playing piano and guitar together). We’ve thought a lot about the layout of our little abode, so I think a photo session at our apartment could really display how our two styles have merged into one really cool place. And it would give us an excuse to have you and Tommy over too
04 Jan 2012 @ 8:23 pm
Hi Connie!
I’ve so enjoyed getting to see your work and would absolutely love to be able to have a local engagement photo shoot with you for my hubs-to-be and I! (I also want to hear the rest of yours and Tommy’s story, because we never got to finish our conversation! haha)
04 Jan 2012 @ 9:31 pm
Hey Connie! I want to win it for my family! We haven’t had a family portrait for a while and it would be fun having you as a photographer. I meant the Chu side.
we still have to meet up! Take care! Can’t wait for your engagement shoot. Haha
04 Jan 2012 @ 11:49 pm
Hi Connieee!! I’ve been hearing a lot about your wedding photography via Tim so I’ve been checking in and out of your portfolio when you post it on facebook. I really like your style photography – it has a warm touch to each capture. I’m not sure about entering the contest since your shooting in LA county so I just wanted to drop a line and say hi! Maybe if I take a vacation there sometime this summer – I’ll leave another comment! I miss ya
-Annie
05 Jan 2012 @ 12:49 am
Hi Connie,
We’ve been emailing about you possibly shooting my upcoming wedding but for the contest I would like to use it for me, my mom, and my sister. We are all three living together this year and because I am getting married it will be the last time we are all together. It would be great to capture this important time in our lives on film. I would like to do the session at our house on Fort MacArthur in San Pedro. The house was built in 1918 so it is photo worthy in itself. Happy New Year and congratulations again on your upcoming wedding!!
05 Jan 2012 @ 2:24 am
hi consers <3
if i were to win this giveaway, i would want you to take pictures of just me! haha. i sound so vain huh? but really, i would like to have you come down to san diego (if it's not too much trouble!) and shoot me in my new apartment. i figure it'd be nice to have photos of my place once it's renovated, and to document this next exciting chapter of my life.
as an added bonus, YOU CAN STAY WITH ME! and we can eat all the delicious grub san diego has to offer. and enjoy san diego together. both san diego and i miss you (yes, i can speak for an entire city/county).
and if san diego is too far away.. i say we go to disneyland and you can take pictures of me there, and then play together the rest of the day
05 Jan 2012 @ 2:39 am
Just heard about you and your giveaway from my sweet neighbor (Samantha Zhang) …and would love love love to win. <3 It's been too long since we had a family portrait done with my ever-growing 2 year old. Your work is beautiful – I'll definitely be following your blog now. Oh, and I'd choose a fun and quirky and colorful location….. something that represents our busy life with our daughter as the ring leader. We live in SD but would of course travel up to O.C.
05 Jan 2012 @ 3:23 am
Hi Connie! You will be shooting my wedding in May, but Josh and I would love an opportunity to do a portrait session/engagement shoot with you. We feel so excited and lucky to have you be our wedding photographer! We would love to do a session in old town Monrovia, which is where we had our very first date 7 years ago.
Happy New Year and thanks!!
-Jenny
05 Jan 2012 @ 5:25 am
helloooooo. i would like to enter in hopes that i can use it for… uhhhhhhm yeah… i already talked to you about it.
05 Jan 2012 @ 7:08 am
I always wanted my family to take a family portrait but due to time and money, we weren’t able to get this done so it’d be awesome to win this and especially because it’ll be with YOU connie~!!! place & theme.. I would love to be it casual and fun!
will spread the word..!
05 Jan 2012 @ 5:44 pm
: )
liked the fb page, liked the blog post. and as you know, i love you and your work!
family session! it’s been a while since taking nice pictures! at the beach? or around la!
05 Jan 2012 @ 8:00 pm
Hi Connie,
Love your style!! Absolutely gorgeous. My husband and I would like to do a portrait session with our doggies! I know we have always envisioned being in a wide open field somewhere (kinda hard to find in LA county but I know they are out there!). We would love to win this contest and it would be an honor to be a part of your portfolio! Thank you.
05 Jan 2012 @ 8:17 pm
What a fabulous giveaway! I’m a huge admirer of your photography and your ability to capture the sweetest moments in life in the most beautiful light.
If I should be so lucky to win, I’d love for my munchkins to be photographed
06 Jan 2012 @ 1:14 am
I’d love to do a portrait session of me and my fiance at this little area of Griffith Park with the California sign (http://callawaygable.com/blog/2010/09/15/hollywood-engagement-photography-2/). I hope we get it!!
06 Jan 2012 @ 10:49 am
Hi Connie!
Very cool idea. I would like to enter for me and the fam. I think the last time we had family photos done was 1990! Back when my mom made me get a perm. =) Location-wise, I’m thinking the Grove/Famer’s Market, eating and walking around. Thank you!
06 Jan 2012 @ 4:28 pm
Dearest Connie!!!
I’d love to win this portrait session for Brian and me, and my dog Snowball. I’m a huge fan of your talent, and would love an engagement session for Brian and me! We’d love for it to be in nature, perhaps on a local hike! We’d also like to take Snowball with us. Unfortunately, Snowball is getting really old (14 years old!) and can’t walk too well. But his spirits are still high, and his smile is still just as lovely. It’d be nice to capture some more memories with him before he gets any older.
<3
07 Jan 2012 @ 6:13 am
Would love a family portrait session with our 2 year old son. We don’t have any nice photos of our family since he was born, and would like a photo session before baby #2 arrives (God willing). Location can be somewhere with foliage/outdoors, but would like pics in an old ice cream parlor (South Pasadena?). I enjoy your artistic perspective! =)
07 Jan 2012 @ 7:09 am
Hi Connie Lyu,
If I were to be selected as the winner of this contest, I would like the session to be for me and all of my friends in the most epic asian family portrait ever.
I want to top this: http://i.imgur.com/wGL1O.jpg
and I know you can do it!
HARRISON CHAO
11 Jan 2012 @ 4:09 am
Hi Connie,
I’m recently engaged and would love to win this giveaway for an engagement session at USC or a pretty park somewhere.
11 Jan 2012 @ 5:53 pm
What a generous giveaway, Connie! I’d love to win a session with you for me & my boyfriend. Maybe somewhere in Griffith park or maybe downtown LA!
12 Jan 2012 @ 3:41 am
Wow, this is exciting! I kinda want a session with you for me and my boyfriend, but I think I’d rather want it to be with my three roommates, whom I have lived with for three years and have known for pretty much my entire life! We go to UCI, so a shoot near Newport beach or maybe on the UCI campus would be really fun
Thanks!
-Tiffany
12 Jan 2012 @ 3:44 am
https://twitter.com/#!/lilbluangel1223/status/157306704139272192
I tweeted about it on my twitter!
13 Jan 2012 @ 2:47 am
MBAD (Melody, Brandy, Annie, and Doris), they were my roommate from the past year. We knew each other from UCSD Chinese Christian Fellowship, and we were very closed together. Currently, Doris lives in LA, and MBA lives in San Diego. We never did the portrait session before, but always want to do it. MBAD usually asked one of our friends, and used digital camera to took picture for us. Even though the quality was not perfect, it was still great time to think back. However, this will be a great chance for 4 of us to take professional pictures.
If the location could be outside of the LA, I would love to pick La Jolla, San Diego. There are beach, coffee shop, and boutique stores. For the theme, um… I am not sure yet, but I know you can help us to find a great theme.
13 Jan 2012 @ 10:25 pm
http://a-single-raindrop.xanga.com/758300603//
I also blogged about it! hehe this would be an awesome thing to do before we graduate and go our separate ways
16 Jan 2012 @ 8:14 pm
Christine and I started our relationship at USC so we would love to take pictures there. We got engaged two months ago and here is our proposal story: Christine fell in love with bungee jumping and has always wanted to skydive. However, she crossed it off her bucket list after she knew how deathly afraid of heights I am. So for our 5th year anniversary, I took her skydiving. I jumped first, landed, got the ring and bouquet of 60 roses (1 for each month we’ve been together) from my brother and waited for her to land. As she was swooping in for her landing, she saw two huge printed banners saying “Will you marry me?” surrounded with rose petals. I had a violinist (her favorite instrument) playing our favorite song as I gave her the flowers, got on one knee and proposed.
16 Jan 2012 @ 8:18 pm
https://twitter.com/#!/byuen888
Tweeted about your photography and copied your link to my twitter.
17 Jan 2012 @ 6:03 pm
Hi Connie,
We just had a family session with you but I was SUPER pleased with how the pictures turned out and would love to win a free session with you!! For this session, I’d love to take pictures with the girls in our church. When we started out the church plant 3 years ago, there were only 3 sisters, but now we have grown to 7 (8 if you count lydia hehe) and I’d love to capture this moment in our lives and our church history
We are all super close and I’d love for us to have a sister’s day or night out, either picnicking at the Getty or hanging out at the Santa Monica pier.
Thank you! Can’t wait to book you next year for baby #2
Pauline
p.s. chi has a Facebook but i don’t (we share his) so i hope i’m still eligible even though i “like” your Facebook page with his.
17 Jan 2012 @ 6:09 pm
and i blogged about it!
http://felicityandmischance.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/p-i-hope-i-win/
20 Jan 2012 @ 2:36 am
I would love to have a photo session with my dog Stubby. She is kind of naughty and stubborn but I think that it would be a real challenge and a lot of fun to capture her challenging-ness. I don’t know about location but an outdoor session would be nice.
20 Jan 2012 @ 2:39 am
Just blogged about you: eliza-dagny.tumblr.com
25 Jan 2012 @ 5:59 pm
Dear Connie,
This photo session would be for my husband and I, taken before the theme, “God’s marriage,” which includes marriage’s blessings and trials. I would like these photos to reflect the beauty of marriage (according to God’s word – husband loving his wife as Christ loves his church, for example), and the “ugly” side (arising from our sinfulness – arguments, for example). If the location is somewhere within the L.A. County, I would take your recommendation of a place, as I’m hardly acquainted with the area
Outside, inside, I trust your eyes either way.
Congratulations on your upcoming marriage
Please don’t be stressed out over wedding planning! (Preparation for married life itself far exceeds in importance and priority.) Have fun, praise God, and continue taking amazing pictures until the Lord calls you to elsewhere 
SDG
25 Jan 2012 @ 6:05 pm
P.S.
Here’s my blog post of your site:
http://jennchow.tumblr.com/post/16471455641/connie-lyu-photography
Take care!
26 Jan 2012 @ 11:06 pm
i tweeted it.
https://twitter.com/#!/itsmejoon/status/162672451057221632
26 Jan 2012 @ 11:07 pm
and i blogged it as well:
http://joonpark.tumblr.com/post/16543988135/a-free-portrait-session-with-connie-lyu
27 Jan 2012 @ 7:30 pm
of course i already like your page.
would love some updated photos of josh and i! LA would be fun but it would be AMAZING if you shot up here in SLO…there are some of the most incredible scenes! nature at its best…
xo!
j.
27 Jan 2012 @ 7:34 pm
tweet tweet tweeted it!
j.
29 Jan 2012 @ 3:01 am
hi connie! i love your pictures, and i would love to win an engagement session!
my fiance and i are getting married in april out in hawaii, but we haven’t done an engagement session and it would be fabulous if we could. maybe if we could take it walking around silverlake… or out in griffith park, or anywhere really! do you have any fun ideas you’d like to try out? 
thank you!
~maiko
31 Jan 2012 @ 8:17 am
This probably isn’t going to happen since you probably won’t be able to come to Taiwan, but it’d be awesome to have a photo session in various locations throughout Taipei City. Taipei 101, night markets, etc. I have some places in mind. It’d probably be for me and some relatives.
Anyways, hope you’re doing well 姐！
01 Feb 2012 @ 9:11 pm
I would love a session with my boyfriend! We’ve been together for over 3 years and don’t have any decent photos of us together. A casual theme that’s somehow related to food (eating? picnic? no clue) would be perfect as he is a chef and i’m a baker
03 Feb 2012 @ 7:59 pm
With my family; mom, sister, brother and me. Anywhere in LA or the OC.
Thank you for your generous heart, Connie! And congrats!
03 Feb 2012 @ 8:25 pm
yay! totally understand how busy things can get – but we are SO excited to see our wedding photos!! no rush, just sayin
i like simple =] I’d be nice to have “our new simple life” captured. whether it be a day in our new home as newlyweds; or a day in ministry with our youth kids; or a walk in the park (one of our favorite things to do!). Simple moments that make us who we are!
hope all the planning has been going well!!
ps_i also blogged about this ^^ more than anything, i hope more people see how gifted you are and love your work as much as we do!
http://keziahkim.wordpress.com/
03 Feb 2012 @ 9:23 pm
your work is beautiful!! the hubby and i have been wanting to have a portrait session ever since our baby girl was born a few months ago, but we aren’t really able to afford it. especially after having to purchase everything you need for a new baby.
not sure what i would specifically want for the photo shoot, but i envision something fun and bright. super vague, i know. haha
03 Feb 2012 @ 9:31 pm
blogged about this, too!
http://jenhasegawa.wordpress.com/
04 Feb 2012 @ 12:20 am
would want a session for my son’s ‘dol’ (1st birthday)/family pics. ‘dol’s are huge in korean culture and i’m in desperate need of a photographer… so far the best i’ve found was free~!!! (hopefully) :O)
maybe at a park… maybe the park my husband proposed?… that park is just gonna get more and more sentimental. We’re never gonna be able to move away from it. :O)
hope I win~!!!
04 Feb 2012 @ 12:53 am
my son is 17-months old and we haven’t done any official photos for him and our little family … and your work is beautiful! i would love to win a free session cuz my husband can’t say no to that!
04 Feb 2012 @ 1:01 am
Posted this on my blog, here’s the link:
http://frooteddesign.blogspot.com/2012/02/portrait-session-giveaway-with-connie.html
By the way, I’m always looking for local photographers because I do invitation designs
Let me know if you’re interested in networking.
04 Feb 2012 @ 7:16 am
I would love to do a shoot with my sister and my family! I’m thinking the park next to my housee or the Santa Monica beach!
Thank you!