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CREATIVE MAMA GIVEAWAY FILE

Today I am giddy with excitement to announce a rock star giveaway by the fabulous Kelly Willette. Kelly is a successful children’s photographer in Norfolk, VA who has a classic, yet timeless style. On top of her fabulous photography, Kelly has designed a set of four portrait posing guides, The Portrait Cookbook – guaranteed to help the up & coming photographer, as well as the seasoned pro looking to change things up a bit. Best of all, she is giving all four away to one lucky reader! (a $200 value!)

According to Kelly…

As a photographer, you have enough to worry about.  You should not have to enter a home and THEN formulate how you will photograph.  Just as a builder has a blueprint, a writer has an outline and a football team has a playlist, the photographer should have a plan.  That plan is The Portrait Cookbook {recipes for success}.  This list of 28 tried and proven poses for children will take the guess work out of what works and what doesn’t.  It will further give your photography more variation in poses and ideas. And you will come into the session looking like the star quarterback.

This system provides 28 “recipe cards” with a photo example of the pose in action. It also contains a checklist for room-by-room and location-by-location ideas for how to pose a child and what to do in each setting.  Your portrait sessions will become more streamlined, and you will spend less time firing your shutter, and more time getting to know the child.  Isn’t our job more about creating memorable, positive portrait sessions for our clients, and less about bumbling around trying to figure out what to do next.  When you have a plan, you are more in control of the situation.  The kiddos will be more engaged with you as you confidently move from one photo scenario to the next.

Read more about her recipes for success on her website, The Portrait Cookbook.

How to win…

The giveaway will be chosen by random this Friday evening at 9pm PST. Shout out as much as possible for multiple entries to win. Just be sure to leave a separate comment for each shout out/entry for it to count.

  • Comment letting Kelly know how awesome she is and how much you’d LOVE her Potrait Cookbook!
  • Subscribe to us here at TCM, do so by clicking here.
  • Twitter to your friends about this incredible giveaway, be sure to follow us too (leave us a link to your tweet as well as letting us know you follow).
  • Become a fan on Facebook, click here to do this.
  • Shout out on Facebook, just be sure to leave a link to your shout out in your comment.
  • Blog it – let others know by blogging with a link directly back to this post (of course link us to your article please).

There’s more…

Kelly has generously offered a discount code to the readers of TCM – enter CREATIVEMAMA at check out for $10 off! This code is good through November 7. Thanks so much Kelly!

About Angie


Angie is the founder and editor of The Creative Mama, who lives in the beautiful Bay Area, CA. She also blogs her own personal journey at angiewarren.com. When she isn't writing or taking photos, Angie can be found having tickle fights with her boys and frequenting the local Starbucks.

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  • Kirsten

    I subscribed!

  • Kirsten

    I’m a fan!

  • Kirsten

    Kelly, you’re awesome! Pick me, pick me!

  • http://www.timeslidesby.com Stephanie

    I\’ve been eying up these cookbooks for a while. I could really use the senior one. I have my 1st shoot soon. I\’d love to have them all!

  • http://www.timeslidesby.com Stephanie

    I’m a subscriber.

  • http://www.timeslidesby.com Stephanie

    I’m now a facebook fan

  • Laurie

    Just got a new camera and would love to have this amazing book for new ideas!

  • http://www.timeslidesby.com Stephanie
  • http://mammaloves.blogspot.com Amie aka MammaLoves

    Following you on Twitter!

  • http://mammaloves.blogspot.com Amie aka MammaLoves

    Became a fan on FB–and I don’t know why I wasn’t already!

  • http://mammaloves.blogspot.com Amie aka MammaLoves

    You’re in my blog reader!

  • http://mammaloves.blogspot.com Amie aka MammaLoves

    Kelly, you are wonderful for putting these ideas together in one place. Would telling you your shoes are adorable too be going too far?

  • http://www.timeslidesby.com Stephanie
  • Stacey B

    I don’t cook! (well not well) but I would LOVE the cookbook! Pick me Kelly (please)

  • Ev
  • Ev

    I subscribed~

  • Ev

    I am following on Twitter

  • Ev

    I became a fan!

  • Ev

    Good Job Kelly! This would be really helpful for a clueless like myself!

  • Jobrina

    LOVE this giveaway! I am now a fan of Creative Mama on FB, I\’m clueless why I wasn\’t already!!!!!! This is such a great new website, can\’t get enough of it!!!!!!

  • Ev

    http://twitter.com/juicebox723 forgot to add link for Tweet!

  • Julie H

    I am a subscriber.

  • Julie H

    And a new fan on Facebook!

  • Julie H

    And I would be beside myself with excitment if I won. I am a working mother who has been looking for a way to leave the rat race & spend more time at home with my kiddos. Photography has always been there to pad my income but this would help me take it to the next level.

  • http://rjplife.wordpress.com Rebecca

    I subscribed!

  • http://rjplife.wordpress.com Rebecca

    Kelly, this looks awesome. I’d love to have one of these recipe books!

  • http://rjplife.wordpress.com Rebecca

    I also became a fan on facebook.

  • http://greenspeckledfrogs.blogspot.com Kristin B

    Love the blog and love the idea of the cookbook. When doing portraits this is the thing that gives me the hardest time. Would love the Cookbook!!!

  • Sara Jane

    wow! Would love love love to read through this!

  • Teresa

    You are awesome! I would love to win!

  • RubyDu

    I love your recipe idea! I need to learn this stuff! Since you probably can’t come to my house to teach me, I’d love to use your recipes.

  • http://justmelinda.wordpress.com (me)linda

    I have big dreams of my own photography biz. I stumbled on this blog by chance today, and the first thing I clicked was the link to Kelly’s posing guide. How RAD is that?! I totally want it. Showing up to a shoot, and just bumbling around is one of my big fears. Apparently, all I need is a plan. :)

  • http://justmelinda.wordpress.com (me)linda

    I subscribed. I\’m loving it already.

  • lenore

    Hi there! I think you’re great and LOVE your style.

  • http://www.borninourheart.blogspot.com Michelle

    Wow! It must be my lucky day. I just found your website and Kelly\\\’s – both full of inspiration!! I just started my new photography business and would LOVE to have a copy of her portrait cookbook!!

  • Whitney

    I’m a fan.

  • Whitney

    I signed up.

  • Whitney

    I would love to win this. I am a new photographer who is trying to get into the business. this book would be a great tool for me. I love your pictures Kelly. they are great and you are an awesome photographer.

  • Dixie

    Your style is awesome!! I’d love to have the Portrait Cookbooks!!

  • Dixie

    I’m a fan…

  • htebazilE

    Okay, even if I don’t win I’m GOING to purchase that book…

  • lmphoto

    awesome work. love the blog!

  • http://thepainters5.com Nikki Painter

    Kelly is def a ROCK STAR!!
    What a fab-o giveaway! Thank you!

  • http://thepainters5.com Nikki Painter

    I\’m an email subscriber :)

  • http://thepainters5.com Nikki Painter

    Following on twitter and tweeted here:
    http://twitter.com/nikkipainter/status/5231762949

  • http://thepainters5.com Nikki Painter

    I’m a fan on FB :)

  • http://jennyrebecca.typepad.com Jenny Rebecca

    I’m already a Facebook fan – does that count as an entry??

  • http://jennyrebecca.typepad.com Jenny Rebecca

    Your portraits are absolutely beautiful Kelly! I would LOVE to win the portrait cookbooks.

  • http://jennyrebecca.typepad.com Jenny Rebecca

    I’m subscribed to The Creative Mama!!!

  • Moria Zuriel

    I subscribed!!!