Day one of Trevor Carpenter’s December Challenge. The challenge is to take a portrait a day for the month of December. Portraits are not my strongest point, so I’d start easy with a subject that I’ve had a bunch of experience with. So 31 days and 32 different subjects, some family, some friends and some strangers. I hope to learn as much as I can about taking portraits this month.

Today I did a marketing blitz of my December contests. I went out and visited many blogs to tell people about the contests and I hope that many people decide to enter the contests. I have a bunch of great prizes to give away. So 15 days from now I hope to have many people who will be participating.

The first entry for the Win a GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr Lite is Neil Galloway of Thoughts From My Life and he’s set the standard for a great post for the contest. Trevor Carpenter also wrote up a post about the contest on Photowalking.org. The perfect compliment to photowalking is automatic geotagging.

Today We got my parent’s tree put up and it is a beauty. We don’t have our own tree up at the moment but this is the first year in a long time that we are actually getting one. I’m looking forward to putting one up and sharing it with Eva. Eva is doing well and had a big day, here she is in a bonus photo enjoying her swing.