A Holiday Tradition in Photography

All images copyright Bleu Cotton Photography

Over the last ten years, I've repeatedly shared Bleu and Alison Cotton's holiday card. Every year I get their card, laugh and think, "There's no way they'll top this one next year!"  Well, a new year rolls around and *poof* they do it again.

Most of you are professional photographers, and while it's too late to do much for this year, it's perfect to think about your 2019 card. No professional photographer should ever be sending out a store-bought holiday card!

Create your own card using one of your images for the front, or put your creativity into staging a photograph like Bleu, Alison and Fisher do every year. Then, include a message that extends your wishes for the holidays with a tie-in to your URL, address, phone number - anything to link people back to what you do as an artist.

Just to add to the fun, the return address on this year's card was from the Marx Brothers! So, to one of my favorite families in photography, Happy Holidays and thanks for never slowing down on the creativity from year to year.  And, to Fisher - thanks for feeding your parents all these creative ideas - I know they'd be boring without you! LOL

Here are a few below I've saved over the years and in fact, featured in previous blog posts.

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