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Our portraits are designed to be part of your life and part of your home; there  for you to enjoy every day.    Our clients have long appreciated the beautiful  watercolor and canvas portraits that have added so much love and warmth to their homes. We're excited to be able to offer yet another fabulous way to display your portraits!   Our stunning line of albums and image boxes are perfect for coffee table and book shelf displays.  Perfect for collections of smaller prints from your session. Give us a call!  We'd love to show them to you! Albums in Matching Display Boxes                             Matted...


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Over the crib  Over the couch! 5x7 - Inch Valentine cards featuring up to four portraits -- more styles available!


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Is your idea of a 'photography studio' a place where fun fades away? Is it an impersonal, noisy kind of rush-you-in-and out place at a mall?  Not here -- no way!  At The Family Album we have fun!  Children want to come back just to visit.  And who can blame them?  Our assistants Mr. Mookie and Madam Sheep know how to have a good time.  They dance and tell stories and oh yeah-- can they make mischief!!!  Nothing like a couple of crazy critters to get the expressions coming:  laughter, thoughtfulness, sweet, spunky.  These two know how to elicit all  kinds of feelings and then we do our job and  capture...


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We love our fine art portraiture and we love it printed and framed! When we create our fine art portraiture we begin at the beginning and we end at the end.  The beginning is learning about who are clients are and how we can make them happy.  As we plan the session we think about colors and textures.  We think about character, personality and style. We put this all together and then forget about it while we enjoy a fun session together.  Then we think about the design elements all over again as we select the final poses and plan the display.  We love our fine art portraiture and we love it printed...


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       No phone pics! OK we're going to say it - when it's time for your child's First Communion no phone pics should be allowed!  At least not as the only record of your child's day.  Celebrate it and savor the milestone and above all preserve it with a fine art portrait.  The children feel so special on this day and it always shows in our portraits.  You're the keeper of your your child's history.  Let us create a fine art portrait and make a beautiful print on canvas or watercolor that you can decorate your home with.  Another beloved option is to frame a collection...


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Make mom happy with our Mother's Day Photography Special. We're partnering with A Pocketful of Posies to bring you a great gift idea!! Stop by  A Pocketful of Posies  at 1656 Massachusetts Ave. in Lexington center and scoop up some artisan jewelry or a spa treat AND while you're in the shop pick up one of our cards offering 10% off a gift certificate toward a beautiful studio portrait and prints of her child/children from The Family Album     This offer is good ONLY between now and May 7th and CARDS ARE LIMITED!!  Our childrens portraiture has a long history of winning awards from the Professional...


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Andrea Joliat~fine art nature photographs I'm thrilled to announce that today I mounted a display of six of my nature photographs.  The exhibit marks the official kick-off of my spin-off.  The Family Album portraits has branched out to  Andrea Joliat Photography, fine art nature photographs.  The display,  'Finding Focus' is a collection of photographs that I created while pursuing my interest in macro photography of plants.  While photographing flowers in the outdoors I began feeling that a beautiful perfect flower wasn't always what I related to.  I found myself searching for something...


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What does it mean to be an award-winning photographer and why do I enter competitions? It must appear that I'm always talking about print competitions. In fact I often am.  This is because I enter three of them each year and have served as a juror myself. The three competitions build on each other. There is the  state level -- Professional Photographer's Association of Massachusetts  (PPAM);  and Professional Photographers of America's Northeast District Photographic  and International Photographic Competitions.  Since these take place at a different times  it does seem to be endless!...


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For the best results when you work with a professional photographer on a publicity portrait be sure to discuss the layout before not after the  session!  Cropping and layout shouldn't be an after-thought. When we talk with clients planning a publicity, commercial or executive portrait session their questions often do not include layout.  Many clients focus on the more obvious, and of course necessary,  considerations such as clothing, backdrop and expression.   While your publicity portrait can be cropped after the fact, a more artistic portrait can be created if we plan the layout ahead...


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I just returned  from a whirlwind trip to Atlanta GA where I attended the annual conference of Professional Photographers of America--Imaging USA.  One of the highlights was participating in the awards ceremony where I celebrated the results of the 2015 International Print Competition.  I had  four for four prints accepted into the Professional Photographers of  America Imaging USA Print Exhibition!  Two of four entries were also accepted into  PPA's prestigious  traveling Loan Collection.  A panel of 43 judges made their selections from over 5200 entries.  My Gold Level Award was based...


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