We know, we know, its about dern time – we’re finally up on Facebook.  We’re excited to make it even easier for our clients to share their wedding photos with family and friends and we’re hoping to foster a better community feel since commentary seems easier to do on FB than blogs.  If you fan us you’ll get not only our eternal gratitude and regular blog feed but bonus material as well: after realizing that most of our clients are photo enthusiasts themselves we thought it might be fun to share a weekly photo thought on our status each Monday.   It gives me a chance to reconnect with the photo teacher I miss being sometimes and maybe we’ll get some of y’all posting your own photos up there too.  Its good to share the photo love.   And you might even see our new “mascot”, Yashicamat 124-G making an appearance from time to time as well.   As my very first medium format camera and good luck charm (its photos got me into grad school), I’ve got a soft spot for this metal box.

Visit us soon!

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Here’s a sneak peek at a few of the options in our new, Museum Art Book catalog.  There are 19 different style options total with a variety of bindings, fine art papers and extras available to make each book unique.  With prices starting at $1500 for a custom design, 13×10 or 10×10 book with 100 pages, Fiver isn’t the only one drooling in this office.  I can’t wait to design his first year book!  (Maybe he should turn a year old first…)

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While shooting Roscoe’s newborn portraits last May, Jacqueline told me how much Sam and I were going to enjoy the process of preparing Fiver’s nursery.  She explained that she and Andy would spend time on Roscoe’s room as a way to connect with him before the birth, that it was a creative outlet for loving someone you couldn’t see or touch or hold yet.   Sure enough, our anticipation exploded into a flurry of paint, sculpture, and furniture last summer and I still love photographing the details of a baby’s nursery because I am reminded of the excitement behind every detail and decision.

I was excited to hear that some of the nursery photos from Roscoe’s 2 week session are featured today on Spearmint Baby, it remains one of my favorites to have photographed with its dreamy, muted colors and vintage wallpaper tree collage.  And of course, the famous knit bunny.  If you want to full scoop on the nursery, visit Jacqueline’s super fun blog, Marbles Rolling, and if you want to visit a great collection of creative nurseries for inspiration, definitely check out the featured nurseries on Spearmint Baby!

And yes (Carolyn), I will submit Fiver’s nursery one day.   If I can ever get all the toys picked up!

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Museum Art Books are a new addition to our album catalog.  Coffee table style books, these versions by Couture are more akin to a monograph by your favorite artist: big, modern, beautifully crafted and printed, well composed and more about showcasing artwork than design.

Folks have been asking about how these books differ from the Coffee Table Art Books that we currently offer by Asuka and we can finally show you.  For starters, Museum Art Books come in over 20 different styles – yep, over 20 – so they are extremely diverse.  There are also over 10 different papers to choose from including linen, watercolor and even recycled papers for your binding.  Like Queensberry, these books are printed and bound by hand for superior craftsmanship.  As for the finer points, here are some photos so you can see for yourself…

Our first Museum Art Book is a first year documentary project with Baby Camille incorporating 6 different sessions from pregnancy through Camille’s first birthday.  We chose to do a French Paris book at a size of 10×13 with linen paper.  All Museum books come with a minimum of 100 pages, giving them more oompf than our 60 page Coffee Table Books as you can see (MAB on the left, CTB on the right):

In addition to being bigger and thicker, the Museum Art Book lacks the glossy casualness of the Coffee Table Book with heavy stock, textured paper.  Color is less punchy and more demure and the pages are thicker.

I definitely dig on the texture of the linen pages:

Some characteristics of the French Paris style include the vellum cover over a white leather binding, printed end pages and the option to add vellum inserts with text or graphics.

We’re getting geared up to order a Berlin book next and design our first Museum Book with Megan and Tom’s wedding.  Stay tuned – we’ll show you more of these as they come in!

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