I have quite a few photobooks in my pipeline at the moment, and I collected the remainder of quite a few orders today which are now ready for delivery… so I’m going to have at least 2 happy clients this week!! I cannot resist showing them off a bit, because even the book printer commented about the one book and how they liked the unusual book size that I ordered.

You may remember Michele’s shoot from a while ago.  In addition to the canvases and prints she ordered, she ordered 2 books as well… one with her portrait session, and another just with her boudoir photos.  They’re not big books, they’re both A5 in portrait with flushmount pages (which is unusual because normally that size is printed in landscape but I just felt the photos needed a portrait book).  The portrait shoot has a printed cover and the boudoir shoot has a black leatherette cover.

The other books ready for delivery are for Maxine’s family.  Maxine has ordered 4 books from Peyton’s shoot that are all slightly different, and I’m only showing you one of them.  They’re all A4 flushmounted landscape books with printed covers (that means the pages are stiff and lie flat when opened).

I’m really pleased with the way they’ve turned out

I received my photobook today… the one I designed for myself (and for use as a sample to show clients).  It contains my favourite photos of my kids from 2010… which was another reason for my Project 365.  In fact, I’ve decided to print a book every year.

Photos lying in digital format and never seeing the light of day are a complete waste in my eyes!

Here’s the layout of all the pages, which include some photos that haven’t been on my blog before…
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I’ve also had a similar book done with some of the weddings I did in 2010, and I’ll post that next week.

I’ve had a quite a lot of requests for photobooks recently, and today I finally got the chance to take some photos of some of the books before I delivered them to my clients.

I received 2 orders of books today, but I’m going to only show you the one… because the other one is for a party and should really be kept a surprise

The Mayat family had their photoshoot a few weeks ago, and as soon as her full gallery was up, I got a phone call from naQiyah asking me to design albums… 3 in fact… one for them, and 2 as gifts for the grandparents.  Such a cool gift!

Anyhoo, I love them, and I’m sure they’ll love them too.  The photobooks are A4 portrait and have 30 pages in them.

In other news… I’ve decided to give the 365 Project a bit of a break… I may start another one from my birthday. Instead I’m doing an i365! It’s a photo-a-day taken with my iPhone4! I got the idea from Lotus (aka SarcasticMom), and think it’ll really test me cos it’s a simple, yet awesome camera.  I’m not going to be posting the photos on this photoblog, but instead will be making use of my Tumblr blog.

In case you’re disappointed about not seeing stuff on this blog daily… don’t fear!  I have other plans!

I’m going to be doing a 52 Project… that means taking a photo every week… and the subject will be my kids.  They’re the reason I’m giving the 365 a rest, they’re getting tired of being my almost-daily subjects… so I’ll subject them to that torture weekly now   In addition, I’m going to be doing some of the meme’s I’ve been eyeing out but until now never had the energy or time for

Oooh and I have another idea up my sleeves too!! You know a lot of you mommy bloggers and tweeters have been asking me to put together a simple photography course… well… I think I’ve discovered exactly what would work for me… and for you… so stay tuned for details

Remember I did J’s boudoir shoot a few weeks ago?  Well, I finished designing her photobook last week, and it was delivered today, and I love it! This photobook is not big at all, at 15cm x15cm, but it worked out so well.

It’s got a leather stitched cover, and the photos are printed on matt boarded photo paper again, just like the last album I had printed.  The difference with this one, was the black background on every page… and that worked brilliantly against the photos.

Cannot wait to deliver it to her tomorrow, in my new silver A5 boxes with green muslin ribbons that I’m packaging smaller orders in!

I took delivery of my first album this afternoon, and I’m so very pleased with it.  Adina‘s mom ordered it and it contains all the photos from her batmitzvah portrait session as well as photos from every year of her life. It’s a book containing very many memories.

It’s a leather bound book, only 15X20 cm, and the 15 pages are printed on boarded matt photo paper.

I really hunted high and low for a good photobook supplier, and I’m quite happy now.  They have quite a big range of books and the quality seems fabulous.  And it only took 7 days to print, thankfully, because the book is needed this weekend by the family.

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.