While I'm a big fan of gallery walls, for variety's sake I've been looking for two big prints to hang over my couch. Large prints can make a big impact, and they don't have to cost a fortune. More

Last week I posted about Joy Cho's photo album of her daughter Ruby's first year. Today I'm sharing another project that captures memories in a completely different way. Click to see how this chair was transformed into a cherished memorial to family.
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It's good to know your limits, so when I wanted to hang over a dozen pictures on the wall at our offices, I called in help. Alex Schuchard is an artist and a master art installer, and he's also a friend, so he came over for a few hours last month and quickly and impressively arranged and hung this entire wall. I think he did a fabulous job.

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Today's tip comes from surface designer Stefan Hengst, about his year-long project called "My Daily Poetry Fix." More

We're big fans of Joy Cho, and perhaps even bigger fans of her now one-year-old daughter, Ruby. Seriously, I could look at photos of her sweet little face all day. Joy recently created a photo album (an actual, real life tangible book versus digital files - gasp!) of Ruby's first year.
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Perhaps Santa was kind enough to bring you your first DSLR or prosumer point and shoot this holidays. Or maybe you're dusting off the ole collection of lenses and hoping to get restarted on a most satisfying of hobbies for 2013. Regardless of skills, our resident "Photo Magician" and regular house tour contributor, Leela Cyd Ross knows her way around a camera and has plenty of helpful insight to make your next photo your best one yet.

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• Photographing Food: Part 1 of 3
• The Perks of Shooting Tethered
• Prepping for a Shoot: 3 Basics to Keep in Mind
• More Tips for Photographing People
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• Using Movement to Add Life to an Image
• 5 Tips for Using a Wide Angle Lens
• The Difference a Lens Makes
• Bethany Nauert's 5 Tips for Photographing Interiors More

It seems like a great deal of the under 40-something crowd in my world has migrated away from Facebook and roosted into the photographic nest of Instagram for daily online socializing. I admit I check my feed with voracious regularity, as friends and I now coordinate and communicate using the photo-social app, and I've met a few new friends thanks to the power of images vs. words. But what if your circle of Instagram followers was well beyond double, triple, or even quadruple digits? Here are 4 who Instagram in the stratospheric realm of the hundreds of thousands... More

For those of us who love the warm, homespun feeling of handmade holiday decorations over the plastic-y ones found in box stores but don't have the time to craft them ourselves during this oh-so-busy holiday season the popular handmade marketplace Etsy can be a great place to turn. More

Tee hee! How we giggled when we saw this raging little D.J.. Remind you of anything? It's by the same artist who created the now infamous Mila's Daydreams, Adele Enerson. That's right, Enerson has a new young muse, baby Vincent. More

I love huge, beautiful pieces of art, but I don't have a wall at home big enough to hang anything large, so we've started a little trade with our friends over at the Clic Gallery. We get to choose a lovely, huge photograph to adorn the front wall of our office every two months, and then we post it here and share it with you. Click below to see both of these in our office (these were our favorites so far) and find out what they are. More