Caught on Camera – my little comping companion
Before long though, my competitive streak returned and I thought I should investigate some baby photo competitions, as I’d taken a few nice photos of Ryland and thought it would be fun to try and win a few prizes. My first attempt was a success – the photo below won him the title of Nottingham Disney Store baby, and £100 to spend in the shop.
Ry also had the chance of winning the national Disney competition but the top prize was a modelling job, which I wasn’t keen on him doing, so decided not to campaign for votes in the final. A couple of months later though, Baba Me (a favourite online store of mine) ran a competition to win £500 to spend on washable nappies. Again this was a voting competition but as the top ten babies all got a prize I thought I’d give it a go. Naively I didn’t realise how competitive us mothers can get: after weeks of badgering people for votes, my photo of Ryland had gained over 340 ‘Likes’ on Facebook, but this was only enough to secure him eighth place and a £25 voucher (that did buy him two lovely nappies though!)
In July I won a camcorder in Flip Video’s Facebook promotion and that completely changed my comping – I’m now able to make home movies that double up as competition entries! It’s so incredibly easy to film and edit short videos and as I’m at home all day with Ryland, working on a project really livens up our day. My first film was for the Flip competition – ‘Baby’s first trip to the seaside’ – and although I didn’t win, it certainly inspired me to make more movies…
My next film, for the worldwide Why I can’t live without Dermalogica contest, was judged to be the best and I was honoured to win $1500 skincare products of my choice – I’m sure Ryland’s cameo in this probably helped…
I filmed Ry in his Cosatto highchair for their newsletter comp and won a gorgeous Swift Lite Stroller:
…and also roped him in to star in my Navigator Paper Team promotional video, which won me an iPhone!
There have also been loads of great photo competitions in 2010 – Ry posing with my favourite trainers won a new pair of Converse from Cloggs…
…a home made mummy costume won the Plum Baby Halloween competition (LOADS of yummy baby food)…
…and Nana’s knitting skills won him a £100 voucher in the Global Cool ‘I Love my Jumper’ competition.
I spotted Graco Baby’s Autumn photo competition just before we headed out for a weekend walk at Attenborough Nature Reserve, and this photo of Ry with berries won us another buggy:
Over the past few days I’ve been taking several Christmas snaps of the boy in the hope I can find some festive photo comps to enter them in – I suppose I should start paying him some form of appearance fee soon!
Looking back over these photos and videos it’s great to see my boy growing up, and the prizes they won were a bonus. I know several of you were lucky enough to win Flip Cameras this year and a lot of them will probably still be unopened in their boxes – why not make it a resolution to take them out and about with you in 2011, you never know what you might capture on camera! And as for my son, he’s probably already dreading what starring roles I might have lined up for him next year…
Fab pictures – I hjave won a couple of photo comps with erin too. Hopefully more for both of us this year. x
love all the photos Di, he’s such a cutie!
Love this post 🙂 This little boys a star in his own right.
hopefully he’ll grow up to be just as lucky as his mum x