Saturday, June 7, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
And the "Professional Choice Winner is.... Ari
Wow it was close! After all the votes were counted the "Professional Choice" winner of the "Modeling Experience 2009" is Ari. We are glad Ari and Monique are good friends because it was neck and neck between them to the end. Thanks to all of the models for participating in the experience. We had a great time working with and getting to know Ari, Asia, Casey, Eli, Fabian, Kaitlyn and Monique. We especially want to mention Asia and the "guys" Fabian and Eli. We were impressed how they progressed through the experience. Casey had some great outfits and we really liked Kaitlyn's free spirit. My personal favorite session was Monique's design session. She looked wonderful in every image.
We are already talking about next year's experience. This was our second year of doing the experience. Our goal is to make each year's experience better than the one before. I really appreciated everyone's patience this year as we worked through some bugs with the voting.
God Bless, Bill & Melanie and the staff at Lantern Hill
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Click on the "Great Links" tab for senior sessions to view Senior '09 Session Information
To the left in the great links area you will see a link to senior portrait session information. We offer 4 sessions. Headshots, studio plus, Around Town and College Class. Check out the descriptions to see which ones will meet your needs.
The "People's Choice" Overall Winner is Monique
Monique is the winner with 911 total votes. It was close, Casey kept the pressure on but Monique continue to add votes from all over the area and county a little bit at a time all the way up to the end. She must of been calling all her family and friends. Perhaps one of the candidates for office this year should hire her to get out the vote. Congratulations Monique. She wins the $100 prize for "Peoples Choice" winner.
The final vote totals are as follows:
Monique 911
Casey 828
Asia 200
Ari 105
Eli 84
Kaitlyn 71
Fabian 20
We want to thank all of you who participated in the voting each week.
Week 5 Design Session People's Choice Winner
The winner is Monique with 84 votes. Congratulations to Monique. The votes for week 5 were as follows:
Monique 84
Asia 51
Casey 21
Kaitlyn 5
Ari 2
Fabian 0
Thanks to all the models for their continued spreading the word.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Vote for your favorite model at billvancuran@gmail.com
This is the last week of voting for our Modeling Experience '09 so make sure you place your vote for your favorite model. Remember only one vote per person. with one email address. If you don't have your own address it is simple to create one at Gmail. Any of our seven models could win this week so vote now. Voting ends Sunday night at midnight. We will try to give you updates as the week progresses.
The vote totals for overall People's Choice winner are as of right now is as follows:
Monique 868
Casey 828
Asia 200
Ari 105
Eli 84
Kaitlyn 69
Fabian 20
We want to thank again Asia, Ari, Casey, Eli, Fabian, Kaitlyn and Monique for participating in the experience. We hope you have a fun and memorable senior year. Melanie and Bill VanCuran
The vote totals for overall People's Choice winner are as of right now is as follows:
Monique 868
Casey 828
Asia 200
Ari 105
Eli 84
Kaitlyn 69
Fabian 20
We want to thank again Asia, Ari, Casey, Eli, Fabian, Kaitlyn and Monique for participating in the experience. We hope you have a fun and memorable senior year. Melanie and Bill VanCuran
Time out!
Ok I (Bill) take responsibility for the voting frenzy. I have tried to keep things fair and workable but have really just muffed it up. I didn't provide enough guidelines and rules or an adequate explanation and so I am publicly apologizing to the models and their family and friends.
When we first started you were asked to vote by email. That had it's problems because people were putting multiple names on an email or saying that they were voting for grandma because she didn't have email. Plus it took me forever to count and keep track of because I had to open each email up to see who it was from and who they were voting for. Frankly I was too busy photographing the models, processing their images and making their slide shows to keep track that way so I changed the voting to the comments section of the blog. People then emailed me concerned because they couldn't vote because they were not Gmail registered. So I changed the settings to allow anyone to vote. Once again we had people placing multiple votes on a comment so I changed things again to one vote per comment. Now I see comments coming in in spurts within just a couple of minutes and I wonder just how so many people can be voting all at the same time. So... I goofed and I need to do something to make it right. Not everyone will be happy with me but this is it.
Week 4 is a TIE between Monique and Casey. You both are apparently putting in a great deal of effort getting all of your families and friends to vote for you. Today the numbers are going up like mad. You each will get the award for the week and you both will be awarded 200 votes for the week.
Now for week five. I don't want to discourage anyone and I do appreciate every one's interest but we have to change things for week five. I may just be making things worse and you may be mad at me but I really just want things to be perceived as fair. So starting now all votes must be placed on my email at billvancuran@gmail.com. Only one vote per email and the vote must be made by the person voting. They must leave their full name on the email. I am sorry if grandma does have email but if she doesn't she obviously can't vote.
I hope this doesn't dampen your spirits regarding the voting. There is still a $25 gift card to give out for week 5 (Design) plus the personalized T-shirt and the bragging rights. All seven models still have a chance to be a weekly people's choice winner. Plus... the overall people's choice winner is still up for grabs. That is the model with the most total votes. That's the $100 prize. BTW I will post current totals soon and I will give credit for votes received up to this moment.
Thanks you for your patience with me. We had tried to do somethings different this year with the modeling experience to make it better and more interesting but I have certainly have learned some lessons regarding things that don't work so well.
The professional choice voting will be taking place toward the end of this week and the winner of that competition will be announced early next week. We do want to say that all the models have been great to work with. Their family and friends have a right to be proud of them. God Bless Melanie and Bill VanCuran
When we first started you were asked to vote by email. That had it's problems because people were putting multiple names on an email or saying that they were voting for grandma because she didn't have email. Plus it took me forever to count and keep track of because I had to open each email up to see who it was from and who they were voting for. Frankly I was too busy photographing the models, processing their images and making their slide shows to keep track that way so I changed the voting to the comments section of the blog. People then emailed me concerned because they couldn't vote because they were not Gmail registered. So I changed the settings to allow anyone to vote. Once again we had people placing multiple votes on a comment so I changed things again to one vote per comment. Now I see comments coming in in spurts within just a couple of minutes and I wonder just how so many people can be voting all at the same time. So... I goofed and I need to do something to make it right. Not everyone will be happy with me but this is it.
Week 4 is a TIE between Monique and Casey. You both are apparently putting in a great deal of effort getting all of your families and friends to vote for you. Today the numbers are going up like mad. You each will get the award for the week and you both will be awarded 200 votes for the week.
Now for week five. I don't want to discourage anyone and I do appreciate every one's interest but we have to change things for week five. I may just be making things worse and you may be mad at me but I really just want things to be perceived as fair. So starting now all votes must be placed on my email at billvancuran@gmail.com. Only one vote per email and the vote must be made by the person voting. They must leave their full name on the email. I am sorry if grandma does have email but if she doesn't she obviously can't vote.
I hope this doesn't dampen your spirits regarding the voting. There is still a $25 gift card to give out for week 5 (Design) plus the personalized T-shirt and the bragging rights. All seven models still have a chance to be a weekly people's choice winner. Plus... the overall people's choice winner is still up for grabs. That is the model with the most total votes. That's the $100 prize. BTW I will post current totals soon and I will give credit for votes received up to this moment.
Thanks you for your patience with me. We had tried to do somethings different this year with the modeling experience to make it better and more interesting but I have certainly have learned some lessons regarding things that don't work so well.
The professional choice voting will be taking place toward the end of this week and the winner of that competition will be announced early next week. We do want to say that all the models have been great to work with. Their family and friends have a right to be proud of them. God Bless Melanie and Bill VanCuran
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Modeling Experience '09 Week Three People's Choice Winner: Casey
For the second week in a row Casey pulled out all stops and won the voting for the people's choice. Monique was a close second. It's time to begin voting for the weeks four favorite. Week four is the Low...cations session which is an outside around town session using alleys, fire escapes, and overpasses. We had a lot of fun . Here is a picture of the group we did Saturday. Quite a Motley crew! They all did great. The slide shows will be posted by tomorrow.
Fallon '08
Another of our Spring seniors. Fallon looks great! We wish her well as she heads off to new challenges and adventures.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Week Two People's Choice Winner is..... Casey
Again it was close thru half the week but Casey and Monique put on a blistering finish with Casey coming out the winner. Casey had 337 votes with her junior friends really helping her, Monique had 280 votes with a number of her junior friends helping, Eli had 43, Ari had 38, and Kaitlyn had 7. Casey gets a $25 Applebees gift card and a bragging rights Modeling Experience '09 T-shirt. Congratulations Casey.
This weeks voting will be refined somewhat with only one vote counted for each post on the comments. So if an office or a family wants to vote for their favorite model each individual will need to post the vote.
Thanks for participating and keep on posting. Every week is new for the People's choice and there will also be an overall peoples choice winner. Totals so far are listed below:
Monique 410, Casey 350, Ari 124, Eli 83, Asia 56, Fabian 34, Kaitlyn 25
Melanie and Bill VanCuran
Week Three is Completed and It's Time to Vote
The Modeling Experience '09 has made it thru three weeks. This last week was "Standing Sitting, Leaning and Lying". It gets a little harder as the skills required are more refined and subtle. Everyone did great and now it's time to vote. The voting is getting more refined too as we go along. This week we will only be counting one vote per one posted comment. So if a whole family wants to vote for their favorite model, they need to each vote individually. Thanks for participating. Melanie and Bill VanCuran
This coming week is Low...cations. We will be doing alleyways, fire escapes and the like. It's time for our models to show some high class grunge.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
There is still Time! Ava Senior 08
Ava is an 08' senior who we recently photographed. She loves to play video games with the guys.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Modeling Experience '09 Week One "People's Choice" winner WOW White on White Session is MONIQUE!
Wow what a week. I watched the votes come in each day and it seemed like the numbers were close but Monique and Ari really put on a blistering finish. In the end it was Monique's getting a lot of her junior friends to vote for her that made the difference. Congratulations Monique you will receive a $25 Itunes gift card and a custom personalized Modeling Experience '09 T shirt. This weeks voting is going to be through the comments section that goes with the video. So watch the headshots videos and choose your favorite model and vote. Everyone is eligible to vote so don't wait. BTW, I am sure the models are wanting to know so here are the results:
Monique 130
Ari 86
Asia 48
Eli 40
Kaitlyn 18
Fabian 18
Casey 13
Modeling Experience '09 Week Two "Headshots"
We have completed week two of our Modeling Experience and now it's time to vote for your favorite model. This weeks voting is going to be a little different in that you vote by posting a vote in the comment section of the video. (See Videos below) Also -We will be posting the winner of the "People's Choice" week one winner later today.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Change in voting process
Sorry for the changes but the voting process is a work in progress. This next weeks voting is going to be tied to the comments on the slide shows. This will help us a lot in keeping track by separating the votes. So to vote, watch the slide show and then post a comment with your vote. Make sure you identify yourself so we know who is voting. Remember you get one vote per week. Thanks for participating and supporting our models.
Update on Modeling Experience '09
Hi Models and friends:
I just wanted to congratulate all our models on "getting out the vote". The competition has been fierce with the lead changing daily. Dennis is in the process of compiling the current vote totals and we will let you know where everyone stands.
I need all of the models to email me back with your T-shirt size. We want to provide the weekly winner with a nice custom printed t-shirt as one of the weekly prizes for the "People's Choice".
I posted an update on the blog regarding the voting. For next week I'm asking that the people that vote for you first look at your images on the blog to qualify to vote. I realize that we are on the honor system and that there is some heavy competition but I trust you. That's my nature. Lets be fair and let's have fun!
I am working on the guide sheets for next week (SLSquared) standing, sitting, leaning and lying. You can also look in magazines and clothing catalogs to get ideas. I will mail them to you when available.
We are going to be having a "Genius Squad" think tank meeting for our models on Sunday May 18 between 3:00 and 4:00. This will be to discuss what you have thought of the experience and this will give us a chance to ask how we can improve things. Please come come and bring one or both of your parents and perhaps a friend. There will be refreshments and we will be displaying and showcasing your images in our gallery. We hope you will come, this will be a big help to us to get your feedback and also your ideas.
We are now half way through photographing for the headshots session. We will post every ones show and some images late Saturday night. Voting starts Sunday for the "Headshots" session. Thanks for participating in the Modeling Experience '09. We hope you are having fun and telling all your friends. To be honest it is a lot of work for us to keep up with but we are enjoying working with you. God Bless, Melanie & Bill VanCuran
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