Unconditional Love

My very best friend approached me several months ago with an idea to present her parents with a special photography session for her immediate family. Many conversations and lots of brainstorming later, we decided that we should go all out and do a weekend documentary project at their family cottage up north in Michigan. The main goal is to create an amazing hard cover book telling the story of their family’s “Unconditional Love” (our working title.) I can not even begin to express my excitement for this project… to create such a unique and soulful body of work for their family. It will be a wonderful experience to document a weekend’s worth of adventures and the complex and intertwining relationships of 8 adults, 2 children, 2 dogs, and a cat at their “home away from home.”

I decided to make a handmade book as the gift certificate in order to express all of my thoughts and information I hoped to share. This small project revived so much of my love for making books of all types, and now I really can’t wait to work on designing their professionally printed fine art photography book! I will post images from their session late in the summer, so check back!

Here’s some pictures of the handmade gift certificate booklet. It was presented to their family last weekend on her mom’s 60th birthday and even though I wasn’t there to experience the joy, I received an incredibly positive response. I am so excited!

P.S. Congrats to my mini-session winners!

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