Favorite {Photo} Friday #52--Blue Woman and a Giveaway!

One year ago tomorrow, or exactly 52 weeks ago today, I copied Stella and started doing Favorite {Photo} Friday every Friday. Since that day, I've posted every single Friday (sometimes at 11:50 p.m.!) without fail. Fifty-two photos later, here we are, and I'm posting one of my favorite photos ever.


I took this photo in Cinque Terre, Italy, in October 2004 (I didn't even have a digital SLR yet). We went there for my birthday and during our hikes I found this amazing mural painted on a wall; it was huge. I couldn't even stand back far enough (without plummeting off trail) to get the whole thing in the frame. I love this photo. I had it printed on metallic paper and then I framed it with a gorgeous three-layer, reverse-bevel, custom cut mat (I worked as a custom framer while we lived in Italy). I love it. It makes me feel both peaceful and invigorated. Have I mentioned that I love this photo?

I realized a few weeks ago that I've never included it on Favorite {Photo} Friday, so I decided to save it for this week. Because I'm doing a giveaway!! I'm going to give away 8x10" photos of winners' choice of my Favorite {Photo}s that I posted on here over the past year! Now, I know there are a bunch of photos that probably nobody who's not related to me would want an 8x10" of, like this one, or this one, or this one. But there are also some really pretty nice ones, like this one, or this one, or this one! [The only one I can't give you is this one, since my wedding photographer took it and that gets complicated and who would want a picture of someone else's wedding, anyway. :)]

To enter:

For one entry: Leave me a comment with your favorite of all my Favorite Photos I've posted so far. You can scroll back through them here, or you can just check them all out in one place here on Flickr. I really like people who read instructions so make sure to include your favorite photo in your comment. :) Important note: if you win, I will ask you which photo you'd like--it does not have to be the one you list in your comment. For example, you can comment that you love my wedding photo, but if you win you can choose a different photo for me to send you. Make sense? Good.

For five entries: Tweet and/or do a Facebook Status Update about this giveaway with a link (tiny url for this post is: http://tinyurl.com/m8rbyd), and then post another comment telling me you did so.

For twenty entries: Buy one of my brand-newly-posted Photo Art Card sets on Etsy!! Choose from Carnivale, Venezia, Italian Monuments, or Napoli. (And then comment and let me know you did so, in case your etsy name is different than your comment name.)

For every 25 entries (combined total of comments, tweets, updates, and orders), I'll give away one 8x10", so the more the merrier. :) I'm going to draw and post the winner(s) next Friday, June 19th.

Thanks so much for a great year of Favorite {Photos}!