I decided it was time to run another contest.
Late last week I designed some Post Cards. I don’t really need but one for a project I signed up to do, but I ordered 50. I’m going to give some to my mother, but I figured I might as well share the wealth with y’all.
Here’s the front:
And the back:
I’m going to give away 30 of these.
One winner will receive 20 and the other will get 10.
Here’s what you have to do:
1. Leave a comment here, on my Facebook Page, or send me a tweet with #sdcpostcards in it, and tell me one of two things:
What you’d like to see/hear/read about for my upcoming book, or why you love my blog, or both, because
2. the more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win.
3. Refer a friend to my Facebook Page and make sure the friend lets me know who sent them. The friend will get an entry, as will you.
4. And because I’m feeling generous if you Re-Tweet posts with hash-tags, I suppose I’ll count those too!
The contest will close on Tuesday at noon and the winner will randomly be drawn from a hat. In fact, we might even do a v-log showing the drawing. I will do my very best to announce the winners on Wednesday before I head to Texas for a few days of warmth.
Sadly, we’ll all have to wait on the postcards, as they won’t be here until next week, but I couldn’t wait to to run the contest. The suspense would have killed me.
Happy Trails!
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I love your photography. As a farm girl at heart, and one no longer on the farm, visions of the wonderful rolling hills and the way we’ve made the land ours, even if it is only borrowed for a lifetime, is amazing to me. Your photography captures snapshots of life and culture that others take for granted. I love your blog for the life you and the D family lead and the photos you have. . . along with your jewelry and recipes (which I’ll probably not get around to making, but sound delightful!). I hope your book is more of the same, photos of the land people tend to forget (their loss!).
Thanks, Amy! I am so blessed to live the lifestyle I do and be surrounded by not only awesome people, but the awesome scenery as well!
Since moving to the city and not getting out to the ranch as often as I would like, I have to live vicariously through you and your photos! Love, love, LOVE the poscard image and applaud your efforts as you move forward with your book project. I’ll buy it! 🙂
Keep shooting such beautiful pics- and running contests! 🙂
Thanks, Casey! I somehow missed that you’d moved closer to the city! I can feel your pain! I appreciate the encouragement! Means a lot coming from you!
Consider writing about the contrasts in northern rural ranch life, vs. typical every day life lived by the majority of Americans. The book you’re writing idealizes your daily life and existence, not that it has to work very hard at that viewpoint when it’s Gods Own Landscape and it is without the kinds of distractions that keep you from Seeing it.
But it’s those distractions that make up the patterns and expectations of the bulk of people living in suburban/urban areas. Forgot feminine products? It’s 5 minutes to the 24 hr store, and you have 4 brands to choose from. Kid injure arm messing around with sibling? The 8am-8pm urgent care is 3 miles away and if after hours the pediatric ER is 7 miles. Need a break from routine? Girlfriends can meet me at three Starbucks within 10 minutes distance. I have a mailbox in front of my house, and a post office 1.8 miles away that’s open until 7pm.
These realities don’t make it better or worse in either place, but they are significantly different. How are they translated from one environment to the other?
Peace, Kiddo.
Renee
p.s. – you going to have a set of postcards to sell that tie into the book when it’s released? (Just sayin….)
p.p.s. Trade some postcards for some beads?
Thanks, Renee! I hadn’t considered writing about how we live 10 miles to our mailbox, are 40 miles to the nearest hospital, and are 55 miles to the closest decent grocery. I had considered talking about the sparse population, but now you’ve really got my wheels turning! As always!
And I would totally consider a trade!
Hi Jenn,
Gosh…I am SO in love with your photography! You have such an amazing eye and I really hope some day to do a photo session with you. ; )
I am really looking forward to this new book of yours. Of course I would LOVE to see alot of your photography in this book…thats kind of a given though I suppose. I would love to hear stories about your life living on a ranch and about your journey to find true quality horsemanship and how this has affected your everyday work on the ranch.
My favorite part of your blog is of course all the horsey stories but I also really like that you have such a variety of topics on here which makes it an interesting read for even those who are not into horses or ranch life. And of course I always look forward to your photos on here. Probably my favorite part. ; )
Looking forward to this book so much!!
Take care!
Jessica Cordes
Thanks, Jessica. I’m actually thinking a photography book about the history of the ranch’s breeding program and the horsemanship we do might be in the future!
Ohhhh, I would love to win. I also love Rene’s comments! Let’s see, what I would like to see is that porcupine picture with his little paws up. Love that photo, and also the one of the horse that looks all wild. It’s a black and white, or sepia I think.
The porcupine, you can rest assured, is making the book. He is just too cute to leave out! And Annie, is one of my most popular photos. I’ve sold lots of copies of her! So you can count on seeing her too! Thanks for being so supportive, Suzie!
I had no idea you were working on a book, that’s so awesome!
And the post cards are beautiful, you’re so talented!
Thank you Celeste! I appreciate it!
Old boyfriends should be in your book. Or, I suppose, old girlfriends if that applies. Everyone loves a good love story. (-; These postcards are lovely. If I win them, I will personally handwrite a note to everyone I know on them and tell them where I got them. Being an Iowa girl and a writer, I feel these are very special. Good luck with the book.
E
Oh Elizabeth . . . let’s not open that can of worms! LOL
Let’s concentrate on the love story she is living right now!
Her life is seriously like a classic love story!
I love following your tweets–I think I’ll add Facebook–and I agree that your photos are fantastic. The book should be wonderful.
Well, I’m a photography junkie, so I also love your photos! But I think what I appreciate the most is your support and advocating for ranch life as well as the Lakota Sioux culture. There are so few of us who experience the day-to-day life of ranching, and you do a great job of telling your story!
I just started following your blog and I love the straight from the heart posts about what is going on with your ranch and the photography is awesome!
I am in the middle of transitioning out of corporate life and going back to my roots to live and work on the ranch where I grew up in the Sandhills of NE. My husband and I feel that we want more for our baby than daycare, we want to give him the sense of freedom, the responsability of taking care of animals and the meaning of what hard work & dedication really is. We also want more for ourselves than an 8 to 5 job.
Your blog is one of four that has prompted me to create and start my own. Keep up the creativity and fabulous pictures!
You know that I LOVE all of your work, and that I’m so very proud of you! I’d love to see more baby pics and that elusive deer at some point! I’d also love to see a full line of stationary . . . the art of WRITING letters and thank you notes has been lost but not forgotten and I for one would love to have some of your stuff!
OH . . . and christmas cards! I’d order some for sure!
I’m so proud of you Jenn, really!