There are many interesting businesses that call Northville home, from clothing retailers to restaurants to salons and even businesses you might not have known existed in your own backyard.

Each Thursday, we'll feature a new Northville business to learn more about its roots and more. This week, we feature Purple Tree Photography, a home-based business owned by Kelli Taylor, who tells us more about it below.

Q: When were you founded?

2007

Q: How did your business come to be?

Photography was always a hobby but I never took it seriously. I was working in advertising as an Art Director when I became friends with my wedding photographer, Heather Saunders, who encouraged me and then hired me to be her second shooter. I worked for her for a short time when I realized that wedding photography wasn't my strong suit and I love portrait photography. So here I am today photographing portraits and loving it.

Q: Why did you choose Northville?

Northville has such a strong community and that's why, when we decided to move last year, we had our eye set on Northville. So now I'm lucky enough to live and work out of my Northville home not far from our fun downtown.

Q: What kinds of services do you offer? I'm an on-location portrait photographer photographing maternity, newborns, kids, families and high school seniors.

Q: What's a fact about your business that most customers probably don't know?

I make a great effort to be a "green" business.

Q: What do you want your business to be best known for?

It is very important to me that my clients enjoy the process, their session and, of course, have photographs that they love.

Q: What's your most popular product or service?

Digital negatives by far! I just always encourage people to back them up and do something with the disk they have purchased because technology changes quickly. But you don't need a computer to view a big beautiful print or canvas hanging in your home.

Interested in being featured in our Northville Business Spotlight? Email nancy.kelsey@patch.com for more details.