If you are a photographer (of any subject!) and haven’t heard about the Shoot and Share Contest, boy, do I have a new obsession for you! Shoot and Share is a site focused on others with the belief that sharing is the heart of it all. It is a business model that I stand by: Shoot and Share. Sharing our high resolution photos with our clients instead of only products, and making the digital files available to them after their session or event for them to have and enjoy years down the road. If you are interested in more of their philosophy, check that out here. They host a contest each winter where photographers from all over the world submit up to 50 photos into an array of categories, and WE are the voters! Once voting is open, all 74,000 of us are given a screen of 4 images that are randomly selected to “go against” one another, and we click on which one we like best of those 4, and we repeat that process over and over and over again, it’s so addicting and way fun to see all the amazing photos submitted!

The facts for 2016’s contest:

Participants: 74,000 people

Votes: 23,000,000 (MILLION) contest votes

Photos: 110,000 photos submitted

Seeing the results this year honestly blew my mind, I must have had some pretty amazing subjects in the past year! These little trips down memory lane of some favorite moments were such a joy collect! (You can see how they did in the top right of the photo!)

Already excited for next years Shoot and Share contest! Happy Friday, everyone!