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Leah McCormick: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Leah McCormick: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

    We had one of our close friends and a phenomenal photographer take part in our Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover recently. Leah McCormick is an internationally published and highly sought after wedding photographer residing in San Francisco. In both her...

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Will Adler Photography for Seavees

Will Adler Photography for Seavees

This image is a sampling of our friend Will Adler’s photography as featured in the Seavees Spring 2015 lookbook. The lookbook, called “The Golden Magnet”, is filled with Will’s sunkissed photography and friends-at-play style. Be sure to scroll all the way to the end...

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Paris Photo LA 2015

Paris Photo LA 2015

If you haven’t heard---Paris Photo LA 2015 is coming up soon! On a bright and sunny California Friday, people will be lining up around noon to get into the event located in the heart of Hollywood in the appropriately chosen Paramount Picture studio lot. The event will...

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Free Phonetic Alphabet Poster

Free Phonetic Alphabet Poster

The team at Outside Open is a great group that provides IT support and technology consulting services in Santa Barbara. They're the "go to" people for Color Services, but it goes deeper than that. Outside Open's co-founder, Greg Lawler, is part of the very fiber of...

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Stephanie Baker: Photograph your Love® Instagram Takeover

Stephanie Baker: Photograph your Love® Instagram Takeover

When Santa Barbara portrait photographer, Stephanie Baker, took over the Color Services Instagram feed recently, she definitely shared what she loves best: the faces of Santa Barbara. Stephanie has been photographing the children and families of Santa Barbara in her...

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Greg Lawler: Photograph your Love® Instagram Takeover

Greg Lawler: Photograph your Love® Instagram Takeover

Greg Lawler is a good friend of Color Services, an IT professional, beekeeper, proud father and photographer with a magic touch. Last week, he kindly took over our Instagram feed with a generous helping of his work and subject matter as diverse as Greg himself. Greg...

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Arna Bajraktarevic: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Arna Bajraktarevic: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

   Last week I had the pleasure of discovering Arna Bajraktarević, aka Arna Bajraktarevic, when she graciously took over Color Services’ Instagram for a week. I learned that her life includes a backstory that few of us can replicate, having escaped Bosnia...

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Susan Adler: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Susan Adler: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

For her recent Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover, Susan Adler took us to her grandmother’s farm in New England with dreamy photos of special moments in a special place very near and dear to her heart. When Susan announced that she’d be posting photos from her...

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Will Adler: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Will Adler: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Last week we were fortunate to have photographer and surfer Will Adler as our Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover guest. He shared a week of images shot during a sailing trip that he and a few friends took across the Pacific. Will’s photos make me want to do two...

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Lindsey Ross: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Lindsey Ross: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Despite years in the photo industry, the term “wet plate collodion” was a new one to me...and what a fascinating week it was to learn about this historic technique from Lindsey Ross through her Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover! This process is not for the...

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Ingrid Nelson: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Ingrid Nelson: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

  Our week-long Instagram Takeover with Ingrid Nelson has come to a close and I’d like to share a few thoughts! I’ve had occasion to admire snippets of Ingrid’s gorgeous professional photography over the course of many years, so, when it came time for her to...

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Travis Jensen: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Travis Jensen: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

   If there’s one thing Travis Jensen has learned as a street photographer, it’s to always be on his toes. He never knows when the next photo moment will arise...but to look at his work, I’d say he’s mastered the art. It was awesome to have Travis as the guest...

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Nick Duncan: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

Nick Duncan: Photograph Your Love® Instagram Takeover

We’re jazzed at Color Services about last week’s Instagram Takeover with Nick Duncan! What a treat! Nick’s work includes assorted rural, sensitive and stunning atmospheric imagery accompanied by introspective and thoughtful captions. Through his photography and the...

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Photograph Your Love®: Instagram Takeover

Photograph Your Love®: Instagram Takeover

We’re excited to announce our new series of Instagram “takeovers”! If you love Instagram and photography like we do, you’ll enjoy our new twist! Each week, a guest photographer will take over our Instagram stream. We’ll be spotlighting photographers that inspire...

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A Video View of Color Services Santa Barbara

When our client, Leah McCormick, came to Color Services from northern California recently, she did much more than pick up her prints and visit awhile. Lucky for us, she spent the day using her artistic eye and iPhone to shoot a video of life at the lab. Leah is a...

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