I am so excited about the custom album I am creating for the LA Printers Fair. You can click on the image above to view the images inside the album or click here.
Leather Craftsmen is working with me and the album will have custom end papers. Can’t wait until the finished album is ready to show everyone.
I was honored to be chosen to exhibit in the Plastic Fantastic Show presented by APA San Diego. The exhibit will take place at the Subtext Gallery in Little Italy for one night only on Friday, September 3, 2010.
Yesterday I wrote about my Portraits Inspiration Book. I also have a Kids Inspiration Book (again made with an 11×14 sketch book and art and drafting dots). I have found, over the years, so many adorable photos of kids that the inspiring images deserved their own book.
The images are from a J. Crew Catalog (with vintage Steinbeck paperbacks, one of my Dad’s favorite authors), the now defunct CHILD magazine and well known portrait photographer Mary Ellen Mark shooting children with Polaroid P/N film.
Album companies have many different types of cover choices for albums including leather and japanese bookcloth.
My client wanted a gold cover for her wedding album so I found a bookcloth for her through a bookbinding company and Leather Craftsmen was willing to use the bookcloth the client preferred.
I just love how the album turned out.
Anyone who knows me well knows I’m a magazine junkie. I have been that way since high school.
When I became a professional photographer I started to look at photographs in magazines and catalogs in a different way. So if I find an image that I really like and feel it could inspire a shoot in the future I rip it out. Over the last year I have taken many of those ripped pages and created an inspiration book using an 11×14 sketch book and art and drafting dots (in case I ever need to take the images out of the book). I have one book for Portraits and another book for Kids.
The three pages from the inspiration book are from Entertainment Weekly, a Neiman Marcus catalog and a photo shoot at Disneyland I found in C Magazine.
I have recently renewed a bunch of fine art prints on my Etsy site. Great gifts for a new baby’s room, the newly remodeled kitchen or greeting cards for the friend who is hard to find a present for.
Etsy has recently made some improvements to their site, including larger image size, and I’m very impressed with what they have done.
So enjoy and seriously considering buying something from my shop.
I mentioned in a couple of recent blog entries that my family had a photo shoot in 2002 shooting with a Contax 645 camera. So far I have shown you the image of my Aunt Francie and me.
On the same contact sheet were wonderful photos of my Aunt with each of her nieces.
My sister Leanne – top two images
under her is my sister Christie (left) and my sister Marie (right)
and under those two is a photo with my Aunt Francie with my mother, Laurie and my Aunt D’Ann.
I am so grateful to have these images and will treasure them always.
To view this image on a separate page, click here.
I am pleased to a part of Wil Jax’ second annual theme show. This year’s theme is COLOR and I was honored that the gallery chose two of my images to be in the show.
The opening reception is Thursday, August 19 at The Warehouse in Cleveland, Mississippi.
