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A Canvas Print Giveaway!! (Facebook Style)

Tony Hoffer — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:00:15 +0000

Since we’ve had a pretty slow week due to weather, we thought we’d take this opportunity to give away a FREE 20×30 canvas print (that’s a $400 value) to one of our clients from 2010!! We’re doing it based on votes. The most votes wins… There are no rules. You can fix the contest however you’d like. Get your friends, get your family, hide your kids, hide your wife.

Here’s how to play:

1. ‘Like’ us on Facebook.

We have uploaded our Best of 2010 gallery on our Facebook fan page. You have to ‘Like’ Hoffer Photography in order to vote.
(Click THIS link or go to the top left of this page to ‘Like’ us)

2. ‘Like’ the photo that you want to win.

There is no limit and there are no rules.
Feel free to tag anyone you’d like to vote for you or do whatever it takes to get votes for your favorite photo.

3. The contest will end at 12pm on Friday.

That’s exactly 48 hours. Whichever photo has the most ‘Likes’ wins!
It’s that easy! Ready. Set. GOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Erica | Senior at Longwood Gardens

Tony Hoffer — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:06:28 +0000

We love shooting seniors! Yesterday we braved the cold with Erica (who was a total champ) and pretty much had our run of an empty Longwood Gardens. Awesome! We have a busy week, much more to come soon…

Best of 2010

Tony Hoffer — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:46:39 +0000

This is one of the posts I look the most forward to every year… and quite a year it was for us! In 2010, we officially had 147 shoots and took approximately 120,000 photos. This marks our 174th blog post of the year. Over the course of the past year, we’ve had roughly 370,000 visits to our site from 180,000 different people in 172 different countries! We’ve put 20,000 miles on our work car, and a bunch more on our frequent flier card (ok, we don’t have a frequent flier card). In the process, we made some great friends, got reacquainted with some old ones and learned a whole lot more about people, photography and of course ourselves. We’ve been incredibly fortunate to have been blessed to do so many great things with so many great people.

Over the past year we’ve nearly frozen to death, nearly overheated to death and nearly fallen to our death… all in the name of cool photos. We’ve swam in oceans, rivers and streams, climbed mountains, hay bail piles and reservoir walls. We’ve shot cliff-jumpers, newborns, elderly, newlyweds, sports teams, bands, ‘D’ list celebrities and karate experts. We’ve shot in fields, forests and campgrounds and on ice-skates, canoes and the Empire State Building. We even had a few photos go viral! We’ve just been so privileged to experience so much with so many people.

On a more personal level, we had some big milestones as well. We welcomed a new niece in the summer, visited a place (Hawaii) that we’ve always dreamed of going to, taught our first major workshop and a bunch more. And especially important (to me at least), Amy finally was able to join me as a full-time employee/boss :).

Thinking through all these things really floods me with emotions. But more than anything, the emotion I feel is gratitude. Gratitude towards God for keeping us healthy and inexplicably giving us these chances… and gratitude towards YOU, the readers of this blog. To repeat a story I’ve said before on here: When I started this blog, I was getting 2 hits a day, one from my parents and one from Amy’s parents. Throughout the years, we’ve been able to rely on word of mouth referrals because we have so many incredible people that read this and pass it along to other people. The fact that you guys are willing to invest even a few minutes of your life into our work means so much to us. I’m still amazed at the fact that anyone would care to look at, comment about, or share our work.

More than that, now that Amy and I have both made this our entire living, I can truly say that without YOU we wouldn’t have a business, our home, or many of the experiences I mentioned above. I hope I come across as sincere when I tell you that EVERY SINGLE ONE of you has a huge impact on our lives. From those of you who just visit and increase our Google ranking, to those of you who comment and help our clients feel special, to those of you who share our work with friends, relatives and others. We owe a huge and tremendous THANK YOU to every single visitor of this blog. We love you guys and we love that you allow us to do what we love. Thank you, thank you, thank you…

So, with all that said, here’s a collection of some of our favorite photos from 2010. We’re taking the next week off, so feel free to come back often. There’s at least one shot from every one of our 147 shoots in here and some extras that we just had to include. I whittled this video down from nearly 900 photos to the 236 that made the cut. Thank you to all the people who appear in this and have shared their lives with us… Oh, and I’m sorry if it goes quickly, but the original was 24 minutes long, so we had to cut it to 9 to keep things moving :)

So, finally, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you faithful and first time blog stalkers. If you missed any of those 120,000 photos, here’s a brief summary of what you missed… (P.S. If you want to watch in HD, click on the HD button in the video frame).

Hoffer Photography’s Best of 2010 from Tony Hoffer on Vimeo.

Taylor’s Senior Photos

Tony Hoffer — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:43:30 +0000

You’ve probably seen Taylor (and someone that looks like her) a few times if you’re a regular. Last year I shot her sister’s senior photos and some for her siblings. This year it was Taylor’s turn. She wanted something different and urban. Taylor is really into fashion and wanted to capture that look, which was a lot of fun for us!

Big props to Taylor for doing this. It was 32 degrees last night and she was FREEEEZING! I think it was worth it though :)

Ashley | Senior

Tony Hoffer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:41:28 +0000

Last night I headed out with Ashley for her senior photos. I’ve been dying to shoot all week with the great weather, but I had a few scheduling changes, so I was just hoping something came up. Luckily, Ashley’s mom called Tuesday night and within a few hours we were out shooting. Ashley loves her horses and competes (sorry I don’t know the real word for that), so we got a bunch of shots with them. Enjoy…

Kaddie | Senior

Tony Hoffer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:07:30 +0000

Wednesday night I was in Manheim, PA for some senior photos of Kaddie. Her sister is a dear friend of mine, so it was great to do some more work for their family. Here’s some of my favorites from the session. Thanks to Rachel for coming along, holding some lights and helping out…. Enjoy…

EDIT: OH YEAH, as Rachel pointed out… I forgot to mention that I got electrocuted!! I didn’t show the picture here for a good reason.. It stinks. Shooting after electrocution threw me off a little bit…

Kaddie wanted a few shots with her horse…

Jess | Senior Session

Tony Hoffer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:17:00 +0000

Here’s a change of pace for you… I did some senior pictures this week. On Monday I headed to West Chester and met Jess and her mom Vicky to take some stuff around town. Jess was a natural…. very easy to get good photos. It was fun working with just one person, and it got the creative juices flowing a little bit.

As a side/business note: I’m hoping to do more stuff like this during the week. If you’re a high school senior, CALL ME!! :) I’m way better than that other person you’re thinking about hiring.

This is my art piece…

Probably my favorite of the day…