Specialties
Solving your portrait, custom framing, passport photo, and gift giving needs. We offer custom printing in house from wallet size to 44" x 17' or more on our Epson 9000. People come from miles around for our selection of McCall's candles and melts and our Willow Tree figurines.
We also have the Taft, CA area archive of historic oil field and business photos from the early 1900's - 1960's. Supper cool for the oil industry buffs and retro street scenes.
History
Established in 1986.
In 1986 I bought the existing portrait studio in down town Taft, CA, which my mom had to run for two weeks while I gave notice to the color lab I worked for at that time. Mom hired my first employee and sold a camera before I even stepped into the business! Everything I learned from Kindergarten on I used everyday those first many years and it was the best feeling in the world, to be satisfied and exhausted in a good way.
My husband came into the shop to meet me two years later and since then we have been inseparable. We expanded to include custom picture framing and more gifts beyond picture frames. We wanted to involve all of the senses and added candles and oils, chocolates, and music CDs of Blue Grass and old time mountain music. It was such fun!
I still did restoration work by hand, and portrait negative and print retouching by hand! This was way before digital and it was labor and skill intensive. With the digital age we are now into custom printing, compositing, graphic design
Meet the Business Owner: Karen and Robert M.
Robert is chief picture framer and remodeler extraordinaire. Karen is photographer, digital graphic artist, and custom printer. Both love nostalgia, history, old toys and signs, inspirational items to lighten spirits, anything to bring smiles to their clients.
