THE YEAR ALBUM
A year of your family, in one book.
WHY A BOOK
You've got thousands of photos on your phone. You'll scroll past almost all of them and never print one.
An album is the opposite. The finished thing, on the shelf, where you actually see it.
Albums get more valuable as time goes by. You look back at who your kids were, and who you were, and you realise how much you'd already forgotten.
A Facebook memory shows you one frame at random. This covers a whole year, and the change in it.
The kids end up being the ones who pull it off the shelf.
A WHOLE YEAR
Whatever sessions we do across the year go into it. The bump. The first days. The one where she finally sits up. The birthday.
You don't plan the whole year up front. You book sessions as they come, and at the end we gather them into one book.
Some years that's one session. Some years it's three. The album holds whatever the year was.
WHAT IT'S MADE OF
I use Queensberry, handmade in New Zealand. I've held a lot of albums, and this is the one I hand over without hesitating.
25 x 25cm, linen cover
Embossed with your names and the year
Ten spreads, twenty sides, with room to add more
Made to sit out, and to be handed down
HOW IT COMES TOGETHER
At the end of your year, I pull the sessions together and design the book. The selection and layout are mine, that's the part you're paying for.
You see the whole thing before it prints, and you get at least one round of revisions to swap images in or out.
You pay for the album to start. Extra spreads, if you want them, are decided once you've seen the layout, not now.
Once it's right, it goes to print. Ready two to three weeks after you approve.
PRICE - $750
The Year Album is $750. It holds any sessions I've photographed for your family this year, and if you've already had one with me, it can start from that.
