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A new toy – Contax 645

We recently started playing with film, and in true Lawson style decided to jump in feet first and get a snazzy camera, the Contax 645. We’ll be sharing lots of pictures from it, but for now here are a few ‘tester shots’ we did of each other in the first few days… All images taken…

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Having an Epiphanie

I am obsessed with handbags.  Mulberry, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and now you can add Epiphanie to that list.  So often I have thought to myself “I wish there was a camera bag which looks like a regular handbag”, but I could never find one pretty enough.  Until now that is. While my regular camera bag…

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What’s in Laura’s bag

I’ve wanted to do a little post about equipment for a while, and after being asked for lens advice a few times recently I figured this would be a good time to finally do it!  Apologies to those who are here to look at wedding pics, you may want to skip this post I am…

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Folio Albums HQ

This afternoon we popped in to see behind the scenes at Folio Albums HQ in Yorkshire.  This is where a very clever photographer is busy handcrafting gorgeous wedding albums with a mind blowing amount of attention to detail. Here’s Stewart, the mastermind behind Folio.  We made him do this… We were pretty excited to be there!…

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Happy Wednesday to me!

Since the beginning of time I have wanted a Tilt Shift lens…ok so that’s a little dramatic, but it’s been at least a few years.  The great thing about being married to a fellow photography geek is that he understands my constant need for new toys, and he surprised me by finally ordering the thing…

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Art Books

Soon we will be changing our album options and introducing the gorgeous new Folio Albums.  Staying with us in the transition is the fabulous Art Book, made in the U.S.A with lovely fine art paper and photographic covers.  We love these albums, they are extremely pretty; we are overcome with excitement every time the postman…

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New Art Book Albums!

We get very excited every time we introduce new albums and get a brand new sample album.  When Parcelforce turned up with our new Art Book this morning (only 10 days after we ordered it from Vision Art in America!) we pretty much had a heart attack, possibly from the exercise of running down the…

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