On Tuesday, I posted some photographs from our family Saturday morning biscuit baking!
I want to show some examples of how this can be translated to a photo book layout. I hope this inspires you to document your family meal and incorporate the photographs into your photo book.
[divider] And if you need additional inspiration, a more in-depth example of family meal photo book layouts will be in the upcoming podcast!
I love homemade, flaky, hot-from-the-oven Southern Biscuits. I think I have shared this before, but I am not much of a cook. A couple of months after my husband and I got married, I tried to make dinner. Not only did I screw up the ingredients making the food absolutely inedible; I also broke one of our new dishes (gift from our registry) by putting it on the stove. After that experience, my husband suggested that he would make dinner from now on. And he is a fabulous cook…so it all worked out for me!
But, I can bake. Or at least I haven’t screwed up to much with baking. I make a mean carrot cake. Love baking the no-knead bread. And am fabulous with scones and biscuits.
So for the February Family Meal Challenge for my Family Photo Book, I prepared biscuits. It does not make for exciting photographs because all of the ingredients are a variation of white: flour, butter, milk. The key to great biscuits: keep your ingredients cold, flex your finger muscles when cutting in the butter and minimize the amount of mixing.
Here are some of the photographs from a quiet Saturday morning. I will include the recipe and book design layouts on Thursday!
I am still working on my February food challenge post…(can’t believe tomorrow is the last day of February…and we even have an extra day) but until then, here are a couple of photos of my 2011 Family Photo Book. All 300 pages!!!
As mentioned in this blog post, each month I want to conduct interviews with moms (and dads) who document their everyday lives with photographs. The main goal of each interview is to learn more about who, why and how we photograph our families. I loved the idea of using photographs to illustrate the answers.
For the first interview, I put myself to the challenge.
10 photographs to describe… Stacey R Wiseman
[divider] 1 | me and my camera:
Nikon D7000 and lately my 24-75mm f2.8 lens; 
[divider] 2 | my family:
Even if partially…we are all in the frame!
[divider] 3 | my current photography challenge:
I am trying to find interesting interior light and creative compositions to document potty training.
[divider] 4 | what I have time for now:
Puzzles!
[divider] 5 | what I don’t have time for now:
Reading The New Yorker.
[divider] 6 | my favorite photography subject:
The interaction between my two kids.
[divider] 7 | my favorite place to photograph inside my home:
My bedroom.
[divider] 8 | my favorite time to photograph:
After-work walks in the park.
[divider] 9 | my favorite blog post (or photo) right now:
Baking chocolate chocolate chip cookies.
[divider] 10 | what tip, trick or info helped your family photographs the most:
Besides setting your custom white balance (which can even be done with point and shoot cameras!), I would say, facing subjects towards the light to get catchlights in the eyes. Of course I understood windows = light, but I never maximized the light in my kids’ eyes. As mentioned above, I am still learning about how to use interior light…but I have definitely improved!
2009 Photo
[divider] 2012 Photo
[divider] Are you interested in being featured?
Send me an email at info[at]bookthisproject.com and include your blog link, if you have one. Let me know how long it will take you to photograph your answers. Feel free to be as creative as you like! I will respond with the details!
One of our Christmas traditions is to bake, decorate and leave sugar cookies for Santa. While the holidays are always hectic and the lure of store-bought cookies would be very easy, I actually enjoy taking the time to make the cookies (and icing!) from scratch. This year I doubled the icing recipe for homemade carrot cake. I hope this is something I can keep up with as my kids get older. I think with each year, they will enjoy it more and more.
[hr] My youngest daughter can’t help yet, but she looked so adorable on Christmas Eve holding the cookie cutters.
My sister and I are rolling out the cookie dough (somewhat blurry photo from my husband who is learning to shoot manual!).
[hr] And my son did a fabulous job decorating the cookies.
[hr] He emptied the entire plastic jar of sprinkles, mostly on one cookie!
As a tradition, I will design a specific layout in our photo yearbook so each year we can see the cookies they decorated.
What are your Christmas traditions?
Q:
Why should I purchase a BOOK THIS PROJECT custom photo book?
A:
If you are looking for a small (20 page) photo book, perhaps documenting a single event such as vacation, a book from BOOK THIS PROJECT is not for you.
But…if you are anything like me, and fit at least one of the categories below, a BOOK THIS PROJECT custom designed photo book is perfect for you and your family.
. You take hundreds or thousands of photographs of your family each year. (I must confess, I have been known to take almost two hundred photographs in one day!)
. You are extremely busy and can never find the time to sit down and create your own photo book…especially at the end of the year.
. You want a sophisticated and modern design, but have no idea where to begin.
. You are looking for motivation and inspiration for photographing your family.
. You desire an easier way to compile and print your photographs.
. You love the idea of starting a tradition; documenting each year as your kids grow up.
. You have family members who live far away and want them to stay connected to your everyday lives through a photo book.
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