Mandy Carter Dottie Photography Awesome Album

One of the albums that captured our interest recently belongs to Mandy Carter, director of UK-based Dottie Photography. Mandy, who is based in Upwell in Cambridgeshire, has been working in photography, printing and design for over 25 years.   Mandy’s album showcases a beautiful wedding in Giggleswick in North Yorkshire, followed by a reception in Whitewell, Lancashire. The album itself …

New fabric cover range

Introducing our new fabric cover range. In conjunction with the recent launch of our Portfolio fine art print presentation folders we have also added a new selection of fabric covers to our range. Pastel Fabric, Bold Fabric and Essential Cotton are replacing Colour Cotton and 6×6 Canvas and are available to order now from our store. And the great news is …

Erin & Gabri Photography Awesome Album

This album was shot by Gabriele and Erin Noziglia of Erin and Gabri Photography, a husband and wife photography business based in Italy. The elegant detail and design in this album captivated our attention as soon as we saw it. The couple work together to produce wedding photographs with a personal and artistic flair. Erin & Gabriele Noziglia   This wedding …

Meet photographer Adam Bronkhorst

Adam Bronkhorst has been shooting weddings since 2005, specialising in unique and alternative weddings across the UK. Adam also teaches and runs workshops for photographers on using lighting. We caught up with Adam to find out more about his work and his top tips for taking photographs in difficult lighting. How long have you been working as a photographer? I …

Fine Art Prints… Have arrived!

Further to their SWPP debut, we are delighted to launch our Fine Art Prints Service at prints.folioalbums.com You asked, we answered and boy, are we glad we did! Further to your requests we went to work at HQ combining our passion for the little details with the same range of beautiful archival quality matte-finished papers and pigment inks used in our …

Fine Art Prints… Have Arrived!

Further to their SWPP debut, we are delighted to launch our Fine Art Prints Service at prints.folioalbums.com You asked, we answered and boy, are we glad we did! Further to your requests we went to work at HQ combining our passion for the little details with the same range of beautiful archival quality matte-finished papers and pigment inks used in …

#FFF: 26th July 2013

The Anniversary for our #FFF posts almost slipped by un-noticed! By almost slipped by – it slightly did, so here’s a belated anniversary edition of our Folio Friday Foto feature! I wanted to do something special for it, so using some of the fantastic, funny, and felicificative (Google it, it’s an awesome word) images that we have shared on our …

#FFF – Cute Kids Edition

This week we have a compiled a selection of cute, funny, and adorable children/teenager shots that we have seen in some of your recent album designs. Photographing children can be difficult, but these images show that the hard-work pays off and provides hilarious and endearing shots that are worthy of note. Get ready to kickstart your weekend with some fantastic …

#FFF: Hero Shots – Bonus Image!

I didn’t manage to get my hands on this image in time to include it in Friday’s Hero Shots post. However, it is such an amazing and beautiful image that I wanted to share it on the Lounge with all of you! So, this week we are having a bonus Friday Foto post… on a Wednesday! This shot is courtesy …

#FFF: Hero Shots Edition

This week we have a smorgasbord of Hero Shots for you all to feast your eyes upon whilst you’re winding down to the weekend. These shots were all used as double page spreads in their respective designs, allowing the images to be shown off in all of their glory – so we are sharing a selection of the ones which …

#FFF: Lighting Edition – Bonus Images!

I loved doing the Interesting Lighting Edition of #FFF last week – it was so amazing getting the chance to showcase a wider selection of our customer’s work, and also to see the different ways that the interesting lighting was utilised in the shots. After posting last week’s edition we saw more interesting lighting shots that we really wanted to …

Freedom Tour Diary 2013: Birmingham Tour Stop

Birmingham was an amazing place to wrap up our 2013 Freedom Tour – Wootten Park, as a bigger venue, was ideally suited to all of our tour needs! We had acres of room to enjoy the beautiful grounds, amazing sunshine, socialising with our tour attendees, and getting some fantastic photographs. Complete with a lake, beach, and rowing boat, the Aspire …

#FFF: Interesting Lighting Edition!

I really loved doing the Tour Bundle #FFF post last week – it was so amazing getting the chance to showcase a wider selection of work by our fantastic photographers. So we figured it might be about time to shakes things up a little bit, and we have decided to revamp our #FFF posts so that we can share a …

#FFF: Tour Edition!

This week we have a bumper edition #FFF – using images which were posted on Facebook or Twitter during our Tour! We loved seeing all of the updates, and excitement, about the tour dates and events (and we’re already counting down to the Folio & Friends Freedom Tour 2014!) So… we thought that we would share some of the amazing …

Freedom Tour Diary 2013: Camberley Tour Stop

Camberley’s tour date was full of surprises. Firstly, John’s love for Van Outen increased. We didn’t think it would be possible… but here he is, happy as a clam, posing with Van Outen: Secondly – Lucky decided to jump on-board the freedom tour early, and surprised our tour attendees by coming along to Camberley for the day to hang out, …

Freedom Tour Diary 2013: Bristol Tour Stop

The tour just keeps getting better! We had a fantastic day at Bristol – with a vintage car and push-bike! Our tour’s picking up an unofficial theme here… We’ve also adopted an unofficial tour friend – the lovely sunshine! The amazing weather continued yesterday, and followed our Freedom Tour to Camberley today. Here at Folio HQ we’re a little jealous …

Freedom Tour Diary 2013: Manchester Tour Stop

Our tour kicked off to a great start yesterday at The Green Dragon in Manchester. Stewart and John loved chatting to everyone who came along but, boys being boys, they got caught up in the day and didn’t reapply their sunscreen. This morning they are a little sunburnt, so SPF 50 is definitely the order of the day for Bristol! …

Freedom Tour Diary 2013: We’re Off!

The time has come! After releasing the who, what, where, and whens on our tour site it’s time for us to jump into Van Outen, kick start the Freedom Tour convoy, and get out on the road to see you all – the wait is over! After packing up our albums, the demo of our new design software, and our …

#FFF: May 31st 2013

This week’s Folio Friday Foto comes from Chris Turner’s latest client album. This image is used as the opening spread of the album, and it helps to start the design in style. Winter weddings are notoriously tricky to shoot – and due to the snow this wedding almost didn’t happen – but the show must go on! This image is …