**THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE VOTED. COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED SO I CAN TALLY THE VOTES. STAY TUNED FOR YOUR WINNERS!**
Happy New Year!! It’s time for my third annual “Best Of” contest. It’s been fun going through my session folders choosing my favorite images of 2012. Now it’s your turn to cast your vote and let us know what you think.
[here are the rules]
1. Each individual person may vote for one photo, one time only. IP addresses will be tracked so please don’t be shady and try to vote more than that. Please and thanks 🙂
2. To cast your vote, just leave me a comment in the comment section below. Please include your comment under this blog post “Best of 2012” and NOT within another blog post comment box. Comments left inadvertently under a different blog post will NOT be counted. Please identify by coordinating image number and image title.
3. If you’re not a Fan on Facebook, head on over and hit “Like” now. Fans, and only fans, will get a ONE MORE VOTE! Please indicate in your comment below that you have “Liked” the Fan Page. Do not comment twice.
Also, winners will be announced on the Bellini Portraits Facebook Fan Page so keep checking there for updates!
4. Please double check to be sure your email is typed in correctly. Very important.
5. Send this to ALL of your friends and family and get them to vote for your little one, too!
[here are the prizes]
1st place : One complimentary weekday mini session!!!!
2nd & 3rd place : 16x 20 styrene mounted print of the 2nd & 3rd place photos.
4th & 5th place : $75 print credits towards future session.
Contest will end Monday January 7th at 11:59pm!! So go cast your vote!!
without further ado, here are the images!!
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1. new baby brother
2. baby makes 4
3. flamenco baby
4.bonnet baby
5. newborn in white
6. momma and her boys
7. boudoir in black
8. flower power
9. cape wind
10. adoration
11. angel boy
12. baby lips
13. momma and her girls
14. sweetness
15. here’s lookin at you
16. darling
17. peacock feather
18. field family
19. mother’s touch
20. boy’s best friend
21. daydream
22. purple flower
23. sail away
24. waiting
25. waiting for stella
26. boat
27. stella
28. love
29. bunting baby
30. sisters
31. mother’s love
32. daddy’s girl
33. lil dolly
34. slumber
35. wrapped in love
36. sweet dreamer
37. goddess
38. soulful
39. three sisters
40. beach beauty
41. family ties
42. lake house
43. purple bonnet
44. bouroir materniy
45. sweet boy
46. peanut
47. joy
48. heart is full
49. peaceful dreamer
50. boy in a boat
51. maternity love
52. wind blown
53. bathing beauty
54. fall family
55. stocking cap
56. sweet sarah
57. baby makes 3
58. look at me!
59. mother daughter boat
60. fall family 2
61. behind the lace
62. twins
63. greenhouse boy
64. mom and baby field
65. sister stroll
66. to the moon and back
67. fall family 3
68. charlie
69. whimsy
70. smiley boy
71. rocking chair
72. affection
73. aglow
74. blue eyed girl
75. brown eyed girl
76. beautiful mama
Kim - #53 bathing beauty!!
Brian - I vote for #53 – Bathing Beauty!
Meghan - #53 bathing beauty!!
Marie - Voting for # 53-Bathing Beauty! Stunning
Phoebe - Wow you are an amazing photographer! Of course my vote goes to:
# 35 wrapped in love
Heather - #40 Beach Beauty. Gorgeous lighting. Just “liked” the fan page 🙂
Martha Collins Gray - #42 Lake House. The light is beautiful and their faces so sweet. Love your photography. Will have my kids photographed some day soon!
Eve Tobin-Caron - They are all amazing but the one that stops me in my tracks is #20, a boy’s best friend. So cute!
Jessica D - Voting for #14 – “sweetness”!
Also a Facebook fan!
Danielle Gintof - #9 so sweet…..
joAnne - #8 FLOWER POWER..It is the highlight of what you do with newborns..BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
Miranda horniak - #53!!!! Gorgeous
erin - #49… Peaceful Dreamer!!
Harmony - My vote is #47!! It was sure hard to choose…such beautiful work!!
Abby - #23 Sail Away is my vote! Boy in a Boat is second in my book 🙂 All gorgeous work, as usual. Love your images!
MJP - 37. goddess
Ori B - my vote is for #14
Sarah - #53 bathing beauty
Jillian - I must vote for #75 brown eyed girl
joyce doonan - love #8 flower power
Mariah - Don’t think my first comment went through- #23, Sail Away! Best Birthday ever, Steph!
Maddie - #49 – Peaceful Dreamer!!
Pamela L - #17 Affection
Pamela - #16 Darling
Meg - #23 Sail Away! Lovely Mariah!!!
Maddie - #49 – Peaceful Dreamer
Heidi - #23 Sail Away! Go Mariah and Dan! Beautiful work <3
Chelsea - #23 — Sail away! So beautiful.
Caroline @ Heidi Hope - #23 – Sail away! Amazing!!! <3
Karla - #72…what a lovely new family!
Megan - So many great photos here!
My vote’s for #23 Sail Away
AnIslandGirl.com - #23 “Sail Away”- Simply Beautiful!!!
katie - #53 bathing beauty
Erin Santiago - Wow Stephanie, you’re amazing!!! My vote goes to #43 purple bonnet. I am also a Facebook fan.
Alyssa - #23 Sail away, though they’re all amazing
D - #53 Bathing Beauty – The Best!!!!!
Jill - #49 – Peaceful Dreamer “liked” your FB page as well!
Therese Kelleher - #66 ‘To the moon and back’… just because!
Kate - 49. Peaceful dreamer. And a fan of your fb page. You are incredibly talented!
Meg - #30 Sisters 🙂
Melissa Walsh - Our vote is for number 30 “sisters” 🙂
Greg Walsh - 30 sisters!
Mary - #30-Sisters-can’t take my eyes off those beautiful sisters!
Sarah - 30. “Sisters”-Perfection!
Lanette - #53 Bathing Beauty….. Just adorable!!
Randall - #53 Bathing Beauty
Eric Cullum - #49, great pic!
Stella - A real bathing beauty:)
Amber B - 53. bathing beauty
Megan - I vote #16-Darling!
Christine - 49 Peaceful Dreamer
Christine - 49 Peaceful Dreamer!
Sarah - #20 – boys best friend is my vote. Though #9 and #42 would be my 2nd and 3rd 🙂
Nina caldwell - My vote is for #53 bathing beauty! She is so precious! i
Mandy - #75-brown eyed girl <3
Stella - I forgot to put #53 that is my choice. Thank you stella
Megan - #53 – Bathing Beauty
Maria - #23 Sail Away! Absolutely beautiful!
Tracy - #30 Sisters
Kim - #72 Affection is so sweet.
Katy Nelson - #71 Rocking chair 🙂
Gretchen - Image 69, whimsy, please! 2 votes for Livie (Facebook fan) xoxo
Karrie Whitman - #53 – bathing beauty
Linda - #72, affection!
Sue Witwer - #30 – Sisters!!!
Andrea - #69 Whimsy <3
Sheny - Photo #71 – Rocking Chair
Barbara - #30 Sisters is beautiful!
Gretta Scully - Rocking chair #71
Keri Macdonald - #71 rocking chair
Alex - I vote for #71 Rocking Chair. What cheeks!!!!
Christa - Photo #71 – Rocking Chair
Carmen - I vote for #72 – Affecion.
Elissa - #30 Sisters is my vote, so many beautiful pictures!
Maya - Affection – # 72
Donna - #71 – Rocking Chair!!
Marlo - #75 Brown Eyed girl!
Maria G Garcia - #71 rocking chair… 🙂
Donna - #53 Bathing Beauty
Carly - #71 – Rocking chair
Kerry - #30 sister is my vote! So beautiful!
Rachel - #71 – Rocking Chair!!
Joe - #30 Sisters… wonderful work!
tracie umebayashi - #66
Yael - I’m voting for #72 affection.
But all of the pics are AMAZING!!!
Kathleen - #30 Sisters, forever my vote!
Maureen - #71 – Rocking Chair….so beautiful and peaceful.
Stephanie Ferrari - I vote #72. Affection.
Katy & Emma!
Karen - I vote for #69 – Whimsy
Jana - #71
Kaitlyn O'Keefe - #71 rocking chair… 🙂
Lindsey - #53 Bathing beauty
kara dulin - 2 votes for #72 please! 🙂 you are an amazing photographer stephanie!
kara dulin - meant to add “affection” to that (love # 16 from our newborn shoot too :))
Sara Mousseau - #71 – Rocking Chair
Christine W - #71 Rocking Chair!! Such a sweet photo. I love those cheeks and blue eyes! I liked the Facebook page so please count my vote twice
jennifer adams - #71 – Rocking Chair
Reema Zaman - I love all your work. My favorite, and my vote, is for #69 Whimsy. And I’m a Facebook fan as well 🙂
Molly Farrell - 71 Rocking Chair!!!!!!!
Nancy Palmer - 71 rocking chair what a beautiful of mother and child
Bill welch - #53 bathing beauty! she’s abuelo’s bebe
Erin - #71 Rocking Chair!
Liria S. Welch - #53 bathing beauty
Sofia Pinheiro - #71 – Rocking Chair
Lauren - #51 maternity love…but, it was even hard for ME to decide! Stephanie, they are all gorgeous!
Paige Wolfe - Love #69, Whimsy, so beautiful!
Ariel - Photo #71 – Rocking Chair
Pam Hayes - #71 Rocking Chair
Davita - #53 Bathing beauty. She is adorable!!!!
Jana - *Sorry! didn’t see that I could vote twice if I was a fan of your page! I am-voted for image #71! Sorry again!*
Eva - #71 Rocking chair. There are so many amazing photos!
Jennifer - #71 Rocking Chair!!!
Kerri - #71 rocking chair
LeeMarie Kennedy - # 71 – rocking chair ROCKS.
Luisa - #75 Brown Eyed Girl!!!
LeeLee - #53 Bathing Beauty is my vote, she’s a glamour girl from WAY back!!
Jack OKeefe - #71 rocking chair
Laura - #71 – Rocking Chair
Amy Manix - #59 Mother daughter boat
Linda Cappellano - #71 Rocking Chair
shawn sarver - #71 Rocking Chair
Anna - #69 whimsy. Beautiful!
Emily Holland - #71 – Rocking Chair
Eileen Keddy - My vote is for #71 Rocking Chair
It is a perfect expression of motherly love and a child’s embracing of it.
Greg - #52 Wind Blown
kate mcgrath - # 49- peaceful dreamer
Kristen - #17 — LOVE MY sweet baby boy!
Day - #71 Rocking Chair.
Lila - Photo #71 – Rocking Chair
Kedar - #71 – Rocking Chair
Diana - #69 Whimsey! So special.
Lindsay - #49 peaceful dreamer
Teresa - #49
caroline mcknight - Love #69,whimsy
Mary P - #53 Bathing beauty! Tooooo cute!
Maria - #71 – Rocking Chair
Suzanne - #72 – affection
Ellsbeth Cundall - #71 Rocking chair! Katy & Emma 🙂
Keri - I am a facebook fan so I’d like my 2 votes to go to # 71. They are all beautiful!
Richard - 69. Whimsy
Jim W - #53 Bathing Beauty
Lindsay - #71 rocking chair!!!
Roger Illescas - #53 adorable 🙂
sue goyette - Please pick number 71 Rocking chair!!!!
Annie Jarvis - #30 – Sisters. They are beautiful!!
Carolyn - #69 – Whimsy – so sweet!
Erica - # 69. Whimsy. Beautiful!! 2 votes, Facebook fan 🙂
Liz - #53 Bathing Beauty
Todd - #72-Ella gets my vote
Rory - #30 – Sisters
Emily Castello - #71 Rocking Chair
Kimberly - #71 Rocking Chair! 🙂
Kelly Allen - #69 Whimsy. Gorgeous!
Donna Monfreda - #53 Bathing Beauty! She is Beautiful!
Meredith Piscitelli - Best of 2012 #30
Lisa - #19 momma and baby
Mirna - #71 Rocking Chair
Lisa - #71 rocking chair
Dale - #30 – Sisters is awesome!!!
Dianne - #53 Bathing Beauty
Dianne - 53 Bathing Beauty
Chris - #1!! Two cuties! … from a FB fan.
rose - #71 rocking chair
Jana Brennan - #1 2x for FB fan 🙂
Kelly Congo - #1 new brother!
Lucia - Phenomenol work, Steph.
#26 boat
Eileen - #1. new baby brother So sweet, I love that they are holding hands.
Michelle - #53 bathing beauty!
Michelle - #53! So cute!
Jessica - #1 new baby brother!
Gillian Hargreaves - Number 1, my friend’s children!! (“liked” you on FB!)
Marisa - #53 Bathing Beauty!!
Kathi duggan - I vote for number 71 rocking chair
Kathryn Nelson - #71 rocking chair
Marcie - #1 new baby brother
Jeff - #69 whimsy
Jane - #55 Stocking cap – he still gives me this look!
Darlene S - Love them all. But #69 with the sunset and expression, really striking
Nanna - #53 bathing beauty is my vote!!!
joe - #53 Bathing Beauty!
Joe - #53 beautiful bathing beauty
Jenny - #42 Lake House (FB fan)
Todd - #30 Sisters – Cutie Pies!
Peggy Weymouth - #42 Lake House – Happy-Happy
Michelle - #71 Rocking chair
Gina - # 71 Rocking Chair!!
Gina - # 71 Rocking Chair!
Dan - #23 Sail Away
Elisa - #72
Robyn Milora - #72
Shannon - #53 Bathing Beauty!!!!
Karen - #53 Bathing Beauty
Shannon - #53 Bathing Beauty!!!! 🙂
Sheree - #53 Bathing Beauty. Precious!!
Michelle - 53. bathing beauty
Soknin - #53 Bathing Beauty!!!!!!
eli - #53 Bathing Beauty:)
MARILYN - #53 Bathing Beauty!!!
Jonathan Lunn - #53 Bathing Beauty
Kay - #53 Bathing Beauty
Pamela - #53 bathing beauty
Katie - 47
Zahira - #53 Bathing Beauty
Anita - #1 new baby brother
Lisa - #53 Bathing Beauty
Lynn - #69
Meghan - #53 bathing beauty
Susan - #53 Bathing Beauty !!
Laurie - #53 Bathing Beauty
stacie - #53 Bathing Beauty!
Donna R - #53 Bathing Beauty
C Smith - #69 Whimsy
Stephanie Ferrari - I meant number 71!! Please disregard my vote earlier. Thank you.
Iolo Fitzowen - #43 – Purple Bonnet
Ayana - I vote for #53 bathing beauty! What a cutie!
Ayana - #53 bathing beauty!!!
Ayana - #53 bathing beauty
Carolyn - Beautiful little Ella!
TINA - #53 Bathing Beauty! love her!
Carolyn - Beautiful little Ella! #72
Barbara - #53 bathing beauty
David Gilberti - Photo # 71 – Rocking Chair
Marisa Gifford - 1. new baby brother!
Julie - #53 Bathing Beauty
Becca - #53 Bathing beauty 🙂
Rolando - #53 linda
Darlene Lanka Klimenko - I vote for # 69 Whimsy
Debra Moriarty - I vote for no #53 Bathing Beauty
Melinda - #53 Bathing Beauty
Ayanna - #53 Bathing Beauty
JEN - I vote for #53 Bathing Beauty
Liz - Photo #71 – Rocking Chair
Witold Kllimenko - Like #69 Whimsy
Cheryl Riel - #53 Bathing Beauty
Valerie - I vote for #16 Darling. So sweet and peaceful.
Cristina Coco - So hard!
I am voting for Two… I can’t help it.
#26 Boat, because I love your boat images and you know I love anything nautical… Also 42 Lake House, love that image and emotion capture.
Rachel - 37. Goddess 🙂
Tina - #19 mother’s touch
Vivian - #30 Sisters
spirits are joined forever
Sankey - #42 lake house brings back such wonderful memories.
Kate - #30 – sisters. They are all amazing, but that one is so special!
Lisa - 62-TWINS!
Lauren Roche-Garland - I vote Pic #54! Obviously biased 🙂
Vickie Farrington - How could I not vote for # 47 and #55. They are my precious grandsons and their beautiful mother.
John - 62- My nieces
Jessica - Number 54 Please!!
Elaine - # 54 fall family 🙂
Michele - #62 twins! Just “liked” the fan page
megan - #53 Bathing Beauty
BRIDGET - #53 bathing beauty
Jessica Kesti - #57 is beautiful
Jessica Kesti - #57 is beautiful!!
Shannon - #54 Fall Family
Karin - #54 Fall Family!
Michelle - #53 Bathing Beauty !!!
Linda - #53 Bathing Beauty–sweet innocence
Kristen - #53 Bathing Beauty
Crystal - Two votes for 61 – behind the lace. Facebook fan.
Sylvia - #54 Fall Family
Sarah - #54, beautiful photo beautiful family!
Connie - #53 Bathing Beauty 🙂
Ro - 71. Rocking chair. Soft, sweet capture of loving rapture!
Mary - #53 bathing beauty!
Sarah L - #53 bathing beauty!!
Paul - #54 Fall Family is just lovely! The American dream come true, so gets my vote!
Darrell - # 62. Cu-u-u-u-u-u-t-e Twins
Simone - #62 Adorable little girls.
Darrell - #62 Beautiful photo of the twins
Carol - # 62
Absolutely adorable girls !
Aida - #53 Bathing Beauty is the Best!
Jennifer Grubler - The competition is way too stiff for my little love #11 to have a chance but if people knew all the constraints you had to work with to get this shot along with all the other beautiful photos you took of him they would know how amazing you really are! This photo will always be magical and precious to me. Thank you! Almost time for 1 years!
Kate - #11, what a perfect angel!
annsweeneyster@gmail.com - ! Vote for #11 Angle Boy! So sweet! Just liked the fan page.
Alecia - #69
Sarah - #11 Angel Baby
Laura - #42 – Lake House, also ‘liked’ on fbook 🙂
Ann Nelson - #71 Rocking Chair
Maria Van Parys - I vote for #73 Aglow
Steve Nelson - I like number 71
Allan - I love # 1!!
Jane - 11. Angel Boy
Hannah - Voting for #23 Sail Away!
Bill - Photo #69 “whimsy” gets my vote.
Michelle - 21 daydream
Laura R - The sweet #11-Angel Boy. 🙂
maegan powers - newborn in white!!! #5 gets my vote!
tom Jones - #71 rocking chair
Tom Gannon - I like #71
Ann Nelson - #71 Beauty!!!
Nicole - # 71 – Rocking Chair
Nicole A - #30 Sisters. I can’t help but recognize the instant relationship between an older sister and her baby sister as I have a similar photo of myself and my new baby sister from over 30 years ago that is still one of my most special and favorite images. Even under 2 years old, I remember meeting my new baby sister—the most important moment of my life at that point and for many years thereafter. I know that the beautiful older sister in that photo will feel the same way about this image many decades to come. Luckily, their moment was captured by an artist! I would love a chance for you to photograph my son. Beautiful work overall! 🙂
Ross Dubois - #5 – baby in white!
Karen Chace - #5 Nolan’s the one! Such a cutie pie.
lauren martin gauthier - your work is always divine, and choosing amongst these images is a near impossible task. but for the purposes of the contest (and as someone with no relation to any of the folks in the photos) i vote for #40: beach beauty. oh, and since i’m also a FB fan i’ll throw in a vote for #7: boudoir in black!
Judy - #5 Adorable Newborn in White
Susan O'Regan - My vote is for #69. beautiful and captivating photo
Mark - #54 fall family, plus an extra vote for #54 for liking the Facebook page!
Colleen - #53 Bathing Beauty
Kim McD - #69 Whimsy!
Veronica Flynn - #53 Bathing Beauty…
Marie - #53 bathing beauty
Melissa - #21 – daydream (naturally) and I’m already a facebook fan
heather - #21 daydream:-)
Dan - #21 is by far the best!
Lory - #21 daydream
jason - #21 daydream!
Brandee - #21 Daydreamer gets my vote!
Jonathan - Daydream!
Kelly - I am a face book fan already and would like my 2 votes to go to #21 Daydream
L Rusin - Number 21-Daydream has my vote.
Jane - #21 of course!!
Jane - #21 daydreamer
Jeannette - #21 – Daydream
Jeannette - 21! and I am facebook fan
Kelley - #21 daydream
Cassie - #21 daydream
Galia - I vote for cutie in number 21–Daydream!
claire - # 21 Daydream
claire - I vote for #21 daydreamer
sandra austin - 54. fall family
Katy Nelson - My second vote for liking the Fanpage hasn;t been cast yet! – #71 Rocking chair : )
Sarah - #30 Sisters! This is my second vote as I just saw that that I could vote twice if I was a fan of your page. (I couldn’t modify my first vote as I already posted it.)
J.O.B. - #30 Sisters…although every photo of every little tyke is gorgeous, there is just something quite particularly wonderful & lovely about those sisters…don’t know exactly what it is….but they get my vote every day….PLUS add my “like” vote from my FB page….
Stephanie - #16 Darling
erin smith - #53 is sooo stinkin beautiful! Bathing beauty should def win!!
Dan - #30 Sisters gets my vote!
S.B. - #30-Sisters. Because it reminds me of their mom and I when we were little girls. I hope my beautiful nieces have as close of a relationship as we do. There’s nothing better than having a sister. I know they will forever cherish this photo. 🙂
Samantha - #11 Angel Boy. He is an angel! I love that little sweet boy.
Mary Ellen - #30: Sisters, So very adorable!
Brett Remon - #72 affection
Tina S. - #72 affection
Zach cox - #72 affection
Kevin Smith - #72 affection
Davidson Peguero - #72 what an amazing edition to a great father mother coach and friend!
Michael Oliveira - #72 affection
Mike foley - #72 affection
carlos - Voting for #72
Carmine C. - #72. Lovely Family
Kris Todd - #72. 🙂
Joseph Aniki - #72 – Affection !!!
Mark Dorso - 72. Affection (absolutely gorgeous! Hopefully that beautiful girl doesn’t get her fathers hairline)
Karin Pearson - 21 daydream
Anthony Perry - #72 Affection
Marisa O'Leary - #72 affection….
Jackie s - #72 affection
Dave Lindberg - #72 affection
Ken Olisky - #72 affection
Eridani Dume - # 72 affection
Jesse - #72
Reynaldo - God bless your family…
Daurys - #72 affection
Reynaldo - #72 God bless your family
John tangherlini - #72 affection
Leslie Tejeda - #72 Affection
Josh Torres - #72-Affection
Bob Nelson - Please change my vote to #71 Rocking chair. I misinterpeted the number of the picture incorrectly.
Christopher O'Hare - #72 affection
Randy Gonzalea - #72 ”Best of 2012”
Joshua Boyd - I like number 72 affection..quite kid.
Ken - #69 whimsy