We were so excited this week to get delivery of our lovely new sample album from Queensberry of New Zealand. Queensberry are one of the world's premiere album and book producers. Here's a quote from their website that sums up their approach:
We believe your photo book or wedding album should be as unique as you are. And yet if you turn the pages of most albums, they look much the same. We believe the people who will most value your new album haven’t been born yet. And yet most photo books and albums suffer from over-decoration and three months taste – a barrier between your photographs and the people who will treasure them in the future.
This sums up how we think about albums too, clean and uncluttered layouts without too many gimmicks or heavy handed photoshop.
Their albums are beautifully packaged and presented. After much deliberation we chose a silk cover with the couple's name on the front, the options are overwhelming! Here's some photos of this amazing album starring the very lovely Marie and Giovanni...
The photos are matted in a unique style, they appear to float in the matted page, yummy!
This is the "Duo" album, a contemporary fusion of matted, full-bleed and flushmount pages:
We also ordered the duplicate parent album with the same cover, it's adorable!
How often in life do you get to have a totally custom made product that is just for you?
We can't wait to start producing these albums for our clients :)
Diane & Amber
This is something we've been meaning to do for a while, blog a finished album! Vanessa and Paul can't pick up their album for a while because they live over east, so it seems the perfect choice to blog.
We still love the joy of seeing the finished product after the weeks of work it takes to put an album together. We love knowing that our couples will have a heirloom of their wedding day to keep forever and show their children and grandchildren.
It's clear that professional photography has changed a lot since everything has gone digital, who knows where it will go next. I can't imagine someone pulling out their iPad to show their grandchildren their wedding photos in 40 years time! A professional quality wedding album is the best way to make sure your photos will be around for for future generations.
Photos by our fabulous work experience student Joanne.
If you missed the announcement on our facebook page, we did really well at the state awards last week! Diane and I were both finalists for the wedding photography category and I won the trophy for the highest scoring print!
Here's the link to the full list of winners: WAPPA Awards Winners
Here's my cool little trophy...
Amber xx
We are excited and proud to announce that we will be running our hugely popular "Shoot Your Dad" fundraiser again this year :)
All proceeds will go directly to the Cancer Council of WA to support their excellent work. We have sadly both lost our mothers and this is our way of helping those affected by cancer.
Do you have a favourite photo of your Dad? They are usually the ones taking the photos and shy away from the camera but here's your opportunity to change that.
Saturday 3rd of September is the day! It's the day before Father's Day and we will be in Hyde Park all day shooting Dads!
For a small donation of $50 to the Cancer Council you will get a 20 minute "mini shoot" and a beautifully presented 8" x 12" print of your favourite photograph from the day. This is valued at $185.
Contact us as soon as possible on 9328 6911 or info@deraysimcoe.com.au. Last year was a huge success and places are limited.
Here's one of our favourite photos from "Shoot your Dad 2010" of the adorable Lauren and her dad Peter:
Diane & Amber xx
Wow, we had the most amazing time in Sydney at the APPAs!
First up, we both won GOLD awards!!! It is a very hard thing to do, out of 3100 entries there were less than 80 golds. We are both so proud of ourselves and each other. Here's our images, Amber's is first:
And Diane's:
We also collected two silvers each, here's Amber's:
And here's Diane's:
Diane was also awarded her Master of Photography which is something she's been working towards for six years. She will now be known as Diane DeRay M.Photog!
We've had some wonderful messages of congratulations on our facebook page, thanks everyone for your support.
We really enjoyed Sydney and watching the judging. We shared an apartment with our good friends Rebekah Wilson and Tina Urie. Amber will be aiming for her masters next year, only 3 points to go!
Yay for us!
Diane and Amber xx
