I’ve just collected my new sample wedding photobook containing some of my favourite images from 2011, and I’m so thrilled with the way it’s turned out!

The book is an A4 landscape Designer Album with personalised cover with genuine leather binding.  It’s one of the more popular covers that my clients choose.  I just love the Designer album because the pages are just that much thicker and feel more lustrous.

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

Last year, I actually planned the photos of my kids.  You may have thought that all the photos of my kids that you were seeing were just because of my Project 365.  But that wasn’t the case.

You see, I was planning a calendar for my mother – it was going to be her Christmas present.  I told my brother about it a few months before Christmas because I wanted to include photos of Erin in the calendar too… and ended up using photos of her that I’d taken.

And my mom loved it

It was such an awesome gift to give her, and in fact, I made a different one for my mother-in-law that only included the boys.

What was so awesome, was that Cat had planned the same thing with the photos I’d taken of her family (as Christmas presents for her parents).  When she posted photos of her calendar on her blog this afternoon (and I like that hers looks completely different), and I noticed that my mom had actually blogged about the same topic, I decided it was about time I showed you what I’d done.

The calendars I did are A3 in size, and each photo is an A4 landscape photo with date blocks underneath.  I chose green blocks because the colour went with the photos, but I could have gone with plain grey too.

I’m definitely going to do it again!

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

2 of my baby photos have been used as the covers of medical news magazines   How cool is that?! I got contacted a couple of months ago by a publishing company who wanted to use 2 of my photos that they found on my blog.  Both moms agreed, and they got printed.  I finally got my copies of the journals yesterday, and I love how they turned out.

This time it’s a small journal… next time it’ll be a major magazine

A simple photo for the day today… I’m doing a wedding later today, and won’t be able to publish the photos for a while