Custom Designed (or Recreated) Photo Albums
Whether you need an album for a special occasion, a place for your piles of pics, a family heirloom re-created, or a remembrance of your keepsakes, our custom-designed albums are created with one goal: to tell your unique story.
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Special Occasion Albums
For a once-in-a-lifetime event, you want a once-in-a-lifetime album. We design just that.
As a Photo Manager & Media Storyteller, I have access to the top print labs, available only to professionals. From this pool, I’ve scoped out the album lines that provide the very best quality per dollar spent.
Today, more and more photographers are offering a more transparent pricing model where the photographer charges fairly for their time and talent in shooting the event, but then makes the image files available to the client to do what they wish with. This model allows the client to:
Shop for the best value for their albums and prints.
Use them in other projects such as Video Fusion Shows or Photo Wall Art.
Take advantage of their guests’ photo and video contributions!
As for the photographer, this model allows them to concentrate on what they do best: capturing the very best moments of your special occasion.
A Note about Albums for Special Occasions:
One of the most common reasons for wanting an album is to commemorate a special occasion. And if it’s a special occasion, people usually want an album that’s a cut above. Unfortunately, this has usually limited them to only the options offered from the photographer.
In the traditional pricing model, photographers charge a very low fee for a sitting or to shoot an occasion and make their profit by marking up the output: most notably on any albums or prints you might want.
But this is changing!
Knowing this, if you’re involved with the planning of a special event and interviewing photographers, make sure to ask if they will provide your image files to you.
If they will, please let us know what you have in mind and ask for a quote. If we decide to work together, we will custom design your album to your unique event (as well as any other items you might like such as Video Fusion Shows or Photo Wall Art) while getting you the very BEST value for your dollar.
Note to photographers: If you would like to spend more of your time capturing moments and less time with photo editing and other post-production tasks, offer additional services and grow your business, let’s connect. Click Here to find out more.
Albums for the Masses (Of Photos!)
The Numbers are Staggering: Americans take more than 10 billion photos every month.
(And most never leave our devices!)
Note: One thing that we STRONGLY discourage is storing your print photos in traditional magnetic (self-adhesive) albums. Sorry to tell you that these magnetic albums, that have been popular for years and are still sold in craft stores, are not a safe home for your photos! The paper used in these albums is acid-based and is combined with an adhesive and type of plastic that destroys printed media. A colleague of mine calls it the chemical sandwich.
The more digital our world becomes, the more precious physical photo albums become (especially when it comes with the digital version to share with your peeps wherever they are!). If you’re looking for a home for the masses of photos on all your various devices, along with print photos that have not yet been scanned, our custom-designed albums will get you the very best bang for your buck. We create gorgeous albums that won’t send you to the poorhouse.
Of course, there IS a less expensive alternative and that’s to do it yourself. If you have the time and talent, by all means, let me know and I’ll introduce you to a place where your memories are SAFE with a platform of affordable options for the do-it-yourselfer.
But, if you don’t have the time or talent, (which is why most photos are siting on various devices, hard drives, or deteriorating in the basement ) then you definitely want to check out our custom-designed albums.
The advantages of our custom designed albums are:
They last.
Because we include a digital “flip-through” version online at no extra charge, they can be viewed by whomever you wish, wherever they are.
Most importantly, the digital album pages as well as the individual photos, can be backed up!
Legacy Albums to Create (or Re-create!)
Your cherished photos and stories, passed on through the generations, are precious and deserve to be shared in beautiful Legacy Albums preserving your family’s history.
Creating a Family Legacy Album
You may have a treasure trove of old photos from generations gone by in old dusty albums or loose in boxes. Maybe you have stories of the people in those photos that have been passed down through the generations.
Or maybe you or other family members have done extensive genealogy research that is collected in folders. These photos, stories and research are precious and deserve to be shared in a beautiful legacy album of your family history.
We can combine your photos with the stories behind them, original writings, and even create family trees to tell your family’s story.
Restoring & Preserving Your Family Heirlooms
If truth be told, some of my most enjoyable album projects have been recreating heirloom albums that have seen a better day. Many families have albums or scrapbooks that can date back a century or more. These books are very special because they often contain far more than just photos. Sometimes the most valuable memories are the handwritten notes and other elements on the pages themselves.
Other heirlooms such as cookbooks or memoirs may not even contain photos, but you may want to preserve the stories and make these keepsakes come alive.
If you have these types of books that you’d like to preserve, you’ve come to the right place! We can recreate your heirloom to look just like the original OR, we can add photos or other embellishments to make it just as special as when it was new.
Keepsake albums (and prints!)
With Added Years Comes Added Stuff and it Just Multiplies as We Get Older.
Photograph German Steins.
Original Collection of Seashells.
First, we photograph each keepsake.
Next, we edit each object, adding vibrancy.
Then, we remove the background, so it pops off the page.
Lastly, we design your Keepsake Album or Wall Art.
Below are a couple of examples.
Keepsakes turned into Wall Art:
Edit and Remove Background.
Create Wall Art by adding steins to a photo,
Or create a print with a simple background.
For a collection of Keepsakes, we can create an Album.
Photographed and Background Removed.
We can then create a gorgeous album!
SO, whether you’re downsizing, short on space or just want to have a less cluttered lifestyle,
Keepsake Albums let you hold on to memories without the clutter.
Things handed down, things we bought, things given to us, travel mementos. We call them different things: keepsakes, knick-knacks or memorabilia. In my house, we called them “chatkes”.
It doesn’t always feel like clutter, but the truth is, we may have more than we have space for, especially as we downsize.
If you’re out of room, you don’t have to part with special keepsakes – at least not the memories! Three-dimensional collections can be preserved and enjoyed in keepsake albums. How do we do it?
To flip-through some of our clients’ albums, click here to go to our album gallery!