Free Chocolate Wrapper Download!

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We are mere days away from Christmas day and we know that some of you (ourselves included) are scrambling for some last minute gifts and stocking stuffers, so the ever brilliant Michelle whipped these up for our Rare Bird Font Foundry mailing list (we do a free Instagram graphic every week!).  Michelle used our Specimen I font for the ‘joyveux noel’ in Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls hand and the tiny stars are from our Specimen IV font which is filled to the brim with charming illustrations. Sign-up for the list and we will send it off to you. we hope this little wrapper makes its way under your tree and in your stockings, enjoy friends!

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Annie Liebovitz teaches photography!

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There are so many magical things and opportunities that have transpired because of the internet, but truly one of the most thrilling for me has been the introduction of Masterclass an online resource of classes taught by true masters in their craft. Their latest coo?  Why having the famed photographer Annie Liebovitz teach a class, for get this under $100 USD?!  This feels like a Christmas miracle! I have taken many a photography course on line, but this is an entirely different level. Michelle recently had the opportunity to meet with Ms. Liebovitz at her book signing and if you are wondering Michelle said she was just lovely.

If you have any interest in portraiture both the class and the release of her latest book should send you into an inspiration tailspin.  Michelle and I have had taking portraits high on our list of projects to conquer and we think with this added motivation (and now knowledge) we just may make it happen this year!

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Annie Liebovitz teaches photography online course!

Annie Liebovitz Portraits book 2005-2016

Author / Miss Tristan B

Miss Tristan B. is the co-creator of the world’s best + easiest product photography editing tool-Foto Rx | Shopkeeper’s Helper and one of the writer’s of this delightful blog. Her lofty goal here is to make this a creative resource repository and to inspire you to fall truly, madly, deeply in love with your life.

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The year is quickly coming to an end but Michelle and I have still been working away on our projects, trying to wrap some up and get ourselves prepared for 2018. We have gotten so focused and good at planning that we have actually broken our year up into quarters. It feels so very legit like our little enterprise is becoming a much bigger one. It’s all very exciting. We had some major bumps in the road this past year, as all new businesses do but the way we navigated them was a lot more smoothly than we have in the past. Of course, our love for the visual has not waned and so it’s been a small thrill to put the finishing touches on a couple of our editing sets that we have been testing for the past year. A year seems like a long time, but we always want to make sure when we launch a project that we have put it through its paces. This light and ethereal black and white set got a lot of attention this week in our lab/studio, we are loving the end edits they are so calm + peaceful, perfect little break during this hectic time of year. We are hoping you love them too!  Our goal is to launch them first quarter of 2018 (see doesn’t that sound so very business like?) I am linking to some resources for  some photography books to start getting that beautiful ethereal base image and our fave digital camera for achieving those pastel tones of Fuji film in camera! We will do a little tutorial on how to achieve the look in camera so stay tuned…

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Foto Rx

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Best digital camera to get those airy pastel tones

The Luminous Portrait

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top photo by michelle p.