Site Image Capture and Marketing System and Associated Methods

1. An automated method of producing an album comprising images of and/or for a customer, comprising: (a) providing a customer with an activation device and creating an electronic customer's folder; (b) upon receipt of a signal from the customer activation device indicating that the customer desires an image to he taken of a specified location that includes the customer's location, activating an automated camera system to image the specified location; (c) electronically storing the image in the customer's folder; (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) in response to signals from the customer pertaining to other specified locations; (e) selectively adding, to the customer's folder, stock images that do not include the customer and composited images that include the customer; (f) displaying to the customer at least some of the images that have been stored in the customer folder; (g) electronically creating a customer album containing at least some of the images that were displayed to the customer; (h) transmitting at least a portion of the album over a network to a cellular telephone carried by or for the customer so that the customer can visualize the images and thereby modify selections and images in real time; (i) providing an editing facility configured to edit the customer album to thereby create an edited album; and (j) finalizing the album, delivering the finalized album to the customer, and receiving payment for the finalized album.

2. The method of claim 1 in which the activation device comprises an electronic device that identifies positions of the customer.

3. The method of claim 1 in which the automated camera is at a fixed location and is in communication with the activation device through the medium of a computer system.

4. The method of claim 1 including using a computer system to track customer movement and to include in said album additional material selected based on the tracked movement.

5. The method of claim 4 in which said additional material comprises advertising or promotional material related to the tracked movement.

6. The method of claim 1 , including augmenting the customer album with images taken with a customer's imaging device.