prints are forever

The Glass Keepsake Box | Washington DC Maternity and Newborn Baby Photographer

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One of my favorite ways to display loose print images is in the Glass Keepsake Box. Each keepsake box is handmade and features an antique finish to beautifully display your treasured images. Inside is a bordered print of every image from your session, telling your story from beginning to end. 

Keepsake boxes are perfect for showcasing your images, simply untie the ribbon and lift your prints out of the box to look through each one. 

Kate Juliet Photography specializes in natural maternity, newborn, and family portraiture in the Washington DC and Northern VA area.
Contact me to begin planning your custom portrait experience.

Portrait Wall Art | Washington DC Newborn Photographer

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"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Kate Juliet Photography specializes in natural maternity, newborn, and family portraiture in the Washington DC and Northern VA area.
Contact me to begin planning your custom portrait experience.

Heirloom Albums | Washington DC Newborn Baby Photographer

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The heirloom album is one of my favorite ways to preserve and display your images. Albums are timeless & classic, they never go out of style. 

Each album is hand-crafted with archival materials, creating the highest quality medium for your artwork. Thick, lay-flat pages are printed on professional quality photographic papers and features your favorite cover in genuine Italian leather, European linen, or Japanese fabric. 

Albums are perfect for displaying a large gallery of images, telling your story from beginning to end. Enjoy your album over and over again for years to come.

Kate Juliet Photography specializes in natural maternity, newborn, and family portraiture in the Washington DC and Northern VA area.
Contact me to begin planning your custom portrait experience.

What Would You Save in a Zombie Apocalypse? | Washington DC Baby Photographer

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Not my usual subject line, right? But I promise, it has a point.

Sometime last year I did something pretty unexpected: I got completed addicted to The Walking Dead. Now, I totally understand if it isn't for you - it wasn't really for me either - but stick with me, I have a non-Zombie related point to make.

In the beginning of the series, way way back in season one, the main character, Rick, is trying desperately to find his wife and son. The city has been abandoned, zombies are everywhere. It's treacherous to travel and things are bleak.

The good news is, he did find them eventually (it was a very heartwarming moment in a show filled with zombies). But when he finds her, his wife asks him,
How did you know we were alive?

You know how he answered?
All of the photos in the house were gone.

In the middle of the zombie apocalypse, when she was rushing to escape with her son, to find safety, when she knew she would never be back again, she took her family photographs with her. Albums, portraits from the wall, they were all gone because they were that important to her.

When I saw that it struck a chord with me. Sometimes we forget how powerful images are. How much of a person is left behind in the photographs we have of them. It's how we remember the little details of how they were. It's how we see how they aged over the years. It's how we get a glimpse into their relationships and see how they smiled and looked at the people they loved the most.

With any luck (knock on wood) we won't be facing a zombie apocalypse anytime soon, but what if there was a fire? Or what if you had to suddenly move to a smaller place? My guess is you would save those photos at any cost.

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Kate Juliet Photography specializes in natural maternity, newborn, baby, and family portraiture in the Washington DC and Northern VA area.
All studio sessions include access to the studio wardrobe for mothers and babies to borrow clothing for your session.
Contact me to begin planning your custom portrait experience.

I Believe in the Tangible | Northern VA Fine Art Maternity, Newborn, & Motherhood Family Photographer

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I believe in the tangible.
What we can hold. What we can feel.

Technology moves fast.
One day those digital files will be obsolete.
Or lost. Or destroyed. Harddrives crash. Sites are hacked. Discs are lost.

Remember VHS tapes?
And Nintendo?
And floppy disks?

Did you ever replace those movies and games and files?

But what about those prints you have?
Of your grandparents. And your parents. And of you when you were young.

What about the images from the days of film?

I bet you still have those.

In thick albums stuffed with so many pages they're about to explode.
Tucked away in a closet. On a bookshelf. In frames on your wall.

Prints exist for you to look back on, flip though and hold.
You can point out old swing sets that you played on, share memories of people pictured but who are no longer here.
See freckles and old friends and pets and faces before they became wrinkled.

Prints don't become obsolete.
A hundred years from now, they will still be here.

That's why I include prints with every order,
and always will.

Washington DC Fine Art Portrait Photographer | Kate Juliet Photography