I know that I take several hundred photographs every year - this last year about 1200. Every so often I wonder what to do with them. I am loath to delete very many because I know that not only can the initial love of a photograph wane with time, in retrospect one or two initial 'unconsidered trifles' have much greater merit than I first think.
Viewing photos on a monitor isn't always satisfactory because it restricts who can view. So I have a website. That's fine but I'm restricted in any description I want to add. I'm a member of Rangefinderforum which provides immediate viewing but there are obvious restrictions in that sort of medium.
What are the alternatives?
One is the published book format. I use this through 'Blurb Books' when I have a considerable number of pictures, say 50 -60, I would like to have in a printed form.
Somehow this isn't quite enough.
I have nearly 20 pictures on the theme of 'Boxes' that I would like to see presented together. My current idea is to display these in a concertina type book. These are available commercially mainly for artists using watercolour, crayon, pen and pencil. They tend to be a little pricey, not necessarily just the right size or allow for the inclusion of insertions within their construction - they just get too fat when you stick in pictures.
The answer then is for me to make my own book.
Pictured is the basis for the illustrated cover - flap, front, spine, back, and end flap. I am adding a small white panel on the left hand end to contain the title.
Subject came from a pile of cardboard boxes stacked in the garage!
Construction continues despite lengthy interruptions!
I wonder if when I finish I will say 'Never Again'?
More to follow in another Blog?
Your boxes project sounds interesting to me, since the human-built environment is ripe with photographic possibility. And the concertina-format book is a great way to present the images. Looking forward to your progress.
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