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Back in January, we were fortunate to have designed a wedding book for our clients Letty and Bas from South Africa. They really loved their book and recently contacted us to design another version of it in a smaller format so they could give them as gifts to their bridesmaids, groomsmen and family members.

We recreated the larger 12" x 12" book into a 7" x 7" format. Then created a brand new cover for the smaller version. We hope their friends and family will enjoy these memories as much as Letty and Bas.

This is the final book in a FIVE-BOOK SERIES that we did for our client. Each one of the books in the series was designed to highlight the couple's yearly adventures, travels and achievements since they started dating.

This was a really fun travel book done for our clients who frequently take vacations on cruise ships around the world. They finally collected a selection of their favorite images from different trips and tasked us with putting together a cohesive story of their great adventures. We managed to put together a beautiful 100 page book that they gifted to all their friends who have travelled with them throughout the years.

This was a wonderful wedding book we designed for a truly gifted photographer, Bryan Mikota. The wedding was shot at the beautiful Ashland Springs Hotel in Oregon. We wish the couple a life filled with happiness and to Bryan we wish continued success.

Asian elephants are considered endangered on the IUCN Red list. At the turn of the 20th Century, there were 100,000 elephants in Thailand. Today, there are less than 5,000.

We were honored to be contacted by Don Tayloe regarding his documentary film, "The Last Elephants in Thailand". Don's film is a sweeping account of the lives of domesticated elephants and what is being done to save them. Their habitat has been drastically reduced and they are rounded up and turned into slaves in logging camps or to perform in the tourism industry. Fortunately, there are people trying to save the animals, but they are under funded and undermined by politics.

This book is a companion piece to the documentary and as a visual biography, we hope that it will encourage people to reach out a helping hand. For more information on Don Tayloe's film, please visit http://haepictures.wordpress.com/

To learn more about how you can help: http://www.fortheloveofanimals.net

Duomo to Como is a book we created for a client as a holiday gift. Three couples traveled through Italy and Switzerland on vacation. Each couple took hundreds of images during their vacation. Our client collected all the images and had us put together a book about their adventures. They then ordered three copies of the books and plan to give their friends the books as a surprise during the holidays.

We've just completed another book project, titled "Photo Light Forms" by photographer John W. Daly. This book showcases some of John's work shot in Yuba River, the SouthWest and in Italy.

To learn more about John Daly, visit his site. To see more of this book, please click here.

This was really a sweet and wonderful book to work on during the holiday - and the cold season. Randi is our client and she contacted us to put together this book as a gift to her husband. They got married in 2007 and recently she collected all of the images from their honeymoon to create a coffee table book as a memento and holiday gift to her new husband.

Randy was highly organized and gave us all 400 of her pictures in order of their honeymoon trip through Maui, Kauai, Napa Valley and San Francisco. It was a perfect book to work on in this chilly weather!

To see more of the book, click here.

We recently designed a book for Ellen van Deelen called "The Rat Pack - A Humorous Look at Extraordinary Mice. Ellen entered the book into the Blurb Book Contest and won much applause from candidates and voters alike. The book was nominated as a runner up and we are thrilled for Ellen and the recognition she received on her charming photographs. A special thanks to our dear friend Jerry Gotkin, who helped us write the beautiful introduction to that book, as Ellen was from Holland and did not speak fluent English.

We just finished up a project for our client who wished to put together a voyeuristic book of her images as a gift to her boyfriend who travels extensively. She had professional images of her taken and asked us to design a tasteful, yet engaging book of her images. These were some of the most beautiful photographs we have worked with and although we are very proud of our work....we won't be showing this work to the public. This is a very personal book, which we do quite often for our clients. We respect their privacy, but still appreciated the opportunity to work on something so personal.

We hope he has enjoys the surprise in in suitcase the next time he takes a trip!!