The top three contenders for the Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD digital camera:

@JustFab for:

@brilliant girl for:

@•°o•°o Gina •°o•°o for:

Just to keep you in suspense a little longer and because I like the tease.  I am taking my time about announcing the winner of the actual contest and will mention the winner of my personal favorite photo. Here it is by @davegolden:

Clearly I’m feeling a little romantic these days.

Dave – as my personal favorite photo, @mattsimpson.name and I decided you should win something. As my unofficial winner, we’ll send you one of the Sexy In Van Wear prototypes once we have one. What’s your shirt and boxer size?

And now for what you’ve all be waiting for the winner of the Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD digital camera and our first ever photo contest -

@•°o•°o Gina •°o•°o for:

I have been a little remiss in announcing the finalist photos in the running for the brand new $300 Fujifilm Finepix S2000HD digital camera that is currently sitting on my desk.  Not sure if my excuse is that I have been working too much this week or that I am just reticent about giving away such a fine camera to the winner. Huge thanks to Get on the F List for donating the camera and thus putting me in this current state of longing.

At any rate, I do need your help in selecting a winner for this rather desirable camera, as the competition is too damn stiff for me to do it on my own.  So have a look through the photos and vote on your favourites either in the comments of this post (ie *mistletoe kisses* to #x #y #z) or in the comments under the photos in our group pool on ‘A Very Sexy Christmas‘ on flickr.

Voting Rules are as follows:

• Voting is open until midnight PST Thursday January 15th.
• You can vote as many times as you like on the photos that you enjoy – funny, sexy or just because it makes you smile.
• Only restrictions are that you don’t vote on the same photo twice and that you don’t vote for your own photo.
• Photos eligible to win include any by:

@davegolden
@brilliant girl
@mattsimpson.name
@•°o•°o Gina •°o•°o
@JustFab

• To vote, comment on the photo with a:

*kisses* or

*mistletoe kisses* or

*You’ve been kissed by ‘A Very Sexy Christmas’*

Don’t worry the contestants know this is how voting is done and won’t think your hitting on them. If you do want to hit on them you will have to think of another clever way to do so.

This Year’s Mistletoe Pics:

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

#11

#12

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Photo by Lola May

What’s this?  A Contest You Say?  If you missed the earlier post, all the rules can be found here.  We are giving away a $300 Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD digital camera to the lucky winner voted by you.

Oh and as a reminder to all, aside from posting your photo on the group page on flickr, to be eligible you must tell us on one of your photos what your favourite feature of the Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD digital camera is.  You can find details on the camera on our prize sponsor’s site – Get on the F List.

Thus far photos eligible for the win include any submitted by:

• Matt Simpson

• Brilliant Girl

• Dave Golden

Lots of other great photos can be seen in the group, the photographers just need to add a comment on what they most like about the Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD digital camera.

Looking forward to seeing all of your future submissions!

Emme

The Details

Contest Name: A Very Sexy Christmas

Contest Location: A Very Sexy Christmas Group on Flickr

What?: A Photography Contest on flickr that focuses on the lighter side of the winter holidays and whose sole goal is to make you smile and cause a chuckle or two.

The Photos: Any photos that in some way involve a winter holiday (Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s .. etc) and put a smile on your face.

We say ‘sexy’ in the title, but for us ‘sexiness’ is a state of being. It’s a feeling that makes you feel good about you and because ‘smiling’ and ‘laughter’ are incredibly sexy, any photos that make you smile or laugh are eligible for the contest.

What is not eligible are pornographic shots (these really aren’t all that sexy in my mind) and nude shots (exceptions are given here, if you can’t actually see any naughty, little bits – such as this photograph that was very tastefully done and is in my mind incredibly sexy and very clever.

Oh and anatomically correct gingerbread men and women and naughty ornaments are highly encouraged as they make the juvenile side of me laugh.

The Prize: a Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD digital camera valued at $300

How to Submit a Photo in the Contest?

• Join flickr, if you are not already there.
• Upload your sexy or just plain funny holiday pics to ‘A Very Sexy Christmas’.
• To be eligible to win, visit Get on the F List, find the Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD digital camera, read about it and find your favourite feature of the camera.  Write your favourite feature of the camera as a comment under your submitted photo(s). *Without this comment, your photo is ineligible*
• Submit as many photos as you wish.
• Submissions close at midnight PST on January 4th, 2009.

Voting:

• You may vote for as many photos as you’d like, as long as they’re not a photo that you submitted.
• You may also only vote once per photo.
• To vote, comment on the photo with *You’ve been kissed*. If you are shy about this you can always say *You’ve been kissed by A Very Sexy Christmas*
• Voting ends at midnight PST on Sunday January 11, 2009.

Ineligible Photos:

• Any photos submitted by ‘the gals’ from Sexy in Van City, any of their multiple personalities or any of their mortified family members. (Yes – Kittyn & wife of Motor Mouth – this means your both ineligible, despite the fact that I know you’d both love the camera – my only suggestion is to flirt with the distinguished Mr. Ingram & Mr Andersen as they have recently both obtained an extra camera) (We do still encourage ‘the gals’ to post, however.)
• Pornography
• Nudes, in which we can see any naughty little bits.

Special Thanks to: Get on the F List for the prize donation.

Happy Posting!  Looking forward to all the laughs and smiles that your posts create!

I will post the details on just how you can win this camera tomorrow. I can tell you though, that it will involve our holiday flickr group – ‘A Very Sexy Christmas‘, so if you haven’t checked it out, please do.  It is all about the lighter side of the holidays and creating a few smiles and chuckles. In the mean time, I will mention a few other ways of winning a Fuji camera from the Get on the F List campaign:

1. Sign up for the F List using this link and it’s secret code to win instantly.
2. Check out the F List’s Best and Worst Ever Gift Contests, upload a pic of your best and worst gift to contend to win the weekly prize of a Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD digital camera.  You can also help judge the winners by voting for your favourite Best and Worst Gift Pics of the week.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of my Best and Worst Ever Gifts, so I’m feeling the need to subject you to the story instead, mainly because the Worst Gift Ever involves Lola.  She and I were at a Christmas present stealing party.  Everybody brought a present and you took turns ‘opening’ or ‘stealing’ presents.  When my turn came round, I choice an especially interesting looking present that Lola had brought.  Being especially proud of this present she watched on with bemusement whilst my face fell upon opening something as uninteresting as a bag of potato chips.  In her defense, they were Miss Vickie’s Potato Chips, but still.  What was she thinking!?!  After a second or two, I gathered there was more, so I turned the bag over and there was some of BC’s finest crop, which although it created some understanding, was in my mind the worst present ever and it showed all over my face.  And no – I am NOT a stick in the mud, its just that it gives me migraines and it wasn’t until after this particular incident that Lola showed me that what I couldn’t smoke, I could eat.  Thankfully my disappointment was overshadowed by much glee from others in the room and the present was quickly stolen away from me.

Photo by Andy Caster

As for my best present, easy and I am pleased to say I have recieved it every year – spending time with family.

For those of you that are thinking that aren’t I the high maintenance pre-Madona this morning – well no.  Just insanely jealous of Tyler as the boy just won a Fujifilm FinePix S100fs digital camera worth $699.99 in the F List Scavenger Hunt. The camera in question features an all-in-one lens (1cm to 400mm telephoto), bracketing functions, titing LCD and the ability to shoot movies.  Would have been perfect for some of the photo shoots that Lola, Kittyn and I had planned for the New Year. Damn Tyler!

No worries, though there are still two more of the camera in question up for grab in the F Lists Scavenger Hunts – one in Vancouver and one in Toronto.  I only mention this to you, as I’m currently in Toronto, so figure I’ll go after that one (and based on the weather outside, I have a bit of time to decipher the clues) and I want one of the rest of you to find the second camera before that darn Tyler gets his hot little hands on both of them.

So here’s the dirt on how to outsmart Tyler – go to the F List Scavenger Hunt, sign-up for the F List (don’t worry this is quick & painless & nobody seems to be sending me any unwanted junk mail from it), and get the clues.  Finally, and here is the easy part, beat Tyler to the punch on the finding the last Van City hidden camera.  Just remember, the Toronto camera is mine, so if you know what’s good for you steer clear.  I do after all bite and hard (Tyler be warned).

Emme

PS Just got a special login for you from the Get on the F List campaign that gives you a secret code that makes you eligible to win their Fujifilm Finepix J100 camera instantly, if used when signing up for the F List, so best to sign-up this way.

@GetontheFlist tweeted me about such a ‘holiday helper’. ‘Get on the F List‘ is a campaign being put on by Fujifilm Canada to inspire better gift giving, rather than the mad dash of ‘damn it’s the night before and I don’t want to spend the next year in the dog house’.  As a part of this, their site has a simple 5-step Gift Finder to help you brainstorm shopping ideas for the people on your list. What I personally like about this campaign and gift finder is that whilst they do suggest a variety of fuji cameras for the people on your list, they also give you a variety of non-camera, non-fuji suggestions.  In addition, they offer a blog with gift advice from 31 Toronto and Vancouver retailers.

Another gift buying suggestion for those of you in Vancouver this weekend is that the Women’s Winter Faire is back Saturday & Sunday, December 20th & 21st at Heritage Hall on 3102 Main St (by the corner of 15th) from 11 am – 6 pm.  Sad that I am not in Vancouver this weekend as my favourite new Vancouver designers, mother- daughter duo, Jen Hong and Morgan of Salty Bean are going to be there selling their salty critters and critter ware.  Really didn’t get enough critter chains from them at the last fair and should have bought a doll or outfit for my new niece.  Damn Raul for distracting me.  Oh and if it is anything like the last fair there will be lots of other great finds for your naughty and nice lists.  A couple of pics below from Raul’s and my November adventure there!

Oh and if anyone else has any other last minute shopping suggestions, please fire us a note.

‘Raul & Emme DO the November Women’s Winter Faire’