A strong online presence is essential for professional photographers looking to grow their businesses, and one of the most effective ways to do that is through blogging. “Blogging” might sound a bit old-fashioned these days, but really it just means any website or page that you update regularly. It could be about your clients, your images — or interesting stories about either of those. Regularly updating your website will not only showcase your photography skills but also boost your website's search engine rankings. To drive people to your site, earn customers and make sales. To View More >>

It’s always great to bring you good news, so today we can announce an extended range of embossings fonts, the return of title pages and … a mistake fixed! Title pages They’re back! We’ve found a new supplier after a long search, so please feel free to order :) Standard personal embossings Personal embossing is our most popular cover style, and no wonder — they’re a lovely way to personalise an album cover and add visual interest, and we’ve just made some changes… But first, we offer two types of personal embossing, Custom (where you supply us with To View More >>

Hi Everyone, This is a quick message to let you know that New Zealand will be moving from Alert Level 4 to Alert Level 3 on Tuesday 28th April, which means we will be able to reopen production at that time, with strict guidelines to keep our staff safe. Thank you everyone for your patience over the lockdown, and special thanks to those who followed our advice and continued to send their orders in. You — and those whose work we couldn’t deliver before lockdown started — will be at the head of the line on the 28th. And if you do have orders to send, please do so as soon as you To View More >>

Stephen and Adrienne are about to board a flight to Las Vegas to check things out with an eye to the future! If you're in Vegas for WPPI and would like to meet up, send us an email and we'll see what we can work out. They do have meetings lined up, but they'd love to talk if they can make it happen! Every year we run deals over the trade show season, though, and this year we have something for everyone, so here goes: • 40% off sample albums, books and boxes:  Quote Code SMP40 when ordering. • 10% off full price production orders for Flushmount albums only:  Quote code FM10 To View More >>

Here’s how to get instant answers to urgent questions like these (oh, and read on for our special offer!): Have you received my order? Is my album in production? When will it be shipped? How can I track it in transit? How do I make a payment? We’ve added a MY QUEENSBERRY ACCOUNT button to your Workspace Dashboard that gives you direct access to all that information and more. It’s the same live data our staff have access to, but you won’t have to wait for us to receive your enquiry and reply. Especially if we’re in way different time zones! Why not check it out To View More >>

We designed, printed and bound a number of special edition Q-Books for AIBP (Association of International Boudoir Photographers). The books feature a collection of beautiful photographs that were part of the “2014 Best of AIBP Image Competition”. (We were 'oohing' and 'ahhing' throughout the entire product shoot). AIBP seeks to unite professional boudoir photographers globally, to share in common interests from the beauty, art, technique and business aspects of the industry. AIBP has members on six continents, and believes in recognizing amazing talent, which To View More >>

Following on from Sonya's post about loving photos, and the thought 'what would you save if your house was on fire?' I found The Burning House, a website which is absolutely devoted to that very question. The site is an invitation for anyone to post a photo and list of what possessions you'd take with you. It describes the decision as "a philosophical conflict between what's practical, valuable and sentimental". It really does give an insight to your personality, interests and priorities. Not surprisingly many of the posts include photo albums, boxes of photographs, old film and framed To View More >>

Knowing my brother and sister-and-law were receiving their very own Queensberry through photographer Kelly Newland I was super excited and couldn’t wait for their album to hit production! They received their album a few weeks ago and they couldn’t be more thrilled. Brendan and Sophie wed at Souljians Estate Winery here in Auckland, New Zealand. It was a perfect day celebrated with close friends and family. Their album has edged pages and protective corners, unique to any Classic Matted Album. Brendan and his groomsmen arrived in style in an old school chevrolet. Both the ceremony To View More >>

Power users really like keyboard shortcuts, especially in winworld it seems, so here's a list of Remix's many keyboard shortcuts from our online tutorial pages. Next week we'll post about right-click and modifier-key functions. HTH, Ian To View More >>

You might remember a post called "the secret life of wedding photographers" on ISPWP a few years ago. Apparently photographers lead a great life – you get to spend your time taking pictures, travelling to exotic locations and partying like rockstars! Of course the sad reality is often quite different. This fertile little meme has got a lot more airtime recently because APE and now Seth Godin have posted about it. As always, Seth's post is well worth the read. He makes the point that everyone has a choice: get together the "guts and resources" too do what you were born to do, or spend your time To View More >>