Platitudes

[BobDavid]

We've all seen photos like these before ... but what the heck?

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I don't think I've seen one like the second image before.
The first one looks like a BobDavid, and a pretty good one at that. Does he know that you're stealing his ideas?   

[RSL]

#2 is the one, Bob. It belongs with the other night stuff you've been doing. At this rate it won't be too long before you have what you need for a book.

[BobDavid]

It takes a lot of mosquito repellent to take nighttime photos in Florida. ... I wonder how one goes about getting a book published...

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I wonder how one goes about getting a book published...

Step 1:     Write up a proposal with some sample photos and apply for a Luminous Endowment Grant (as I did).
Step 2:     Spend some hours on the Web looking for free advice on book publishing.
Step 3:     Study the design features of some photo books that you like. Check libraries if you don't own that many photo books.
Step 4:     Check out formats, paper and prices at several outfits that will print them for you (such as Blurb, Adorama, Pikto, and the New Hampshire printer that is mentioned on another thread about books.
Step 5:     Get or borrow and read two books: Mark Levine's The Fine Print of Self-Publishing, and Helen Sedwick's Self-Publisher's Legal Handbook.
Step 6:     Talk to some other photographers who have done books and hear what they went through.

By the time you've done all that, I will have written up an outline of my whole process and if LuLa doesn't want to publish it, I'll put it on my own website and post a link here.

For my first book I'm sticking with Blurb, soft-cover, 8x10" landscape format, with 106 pages and 80 black-and-white images. I hope to do a color book after this one is out, and color means I will have to rethink a lot of issues.

That's my 2 centimes so far.

-Eric

[BobDavid]

Step 1:     Write up a proposal with some sample photos and apply for a Luminous Endowment Grant (as I did).
Step 2:     Spend some hours on the Web looking for free advice on book publishing.
Step 3:     Study the design features of some photo books that you like. Check libraries if you don't own that many photo books.
Step 4:     Check out formats, paper and prices at several outfits that will print them for you (such as Blurb, Adorama, Pikto, and the New Hampshire printer that is mentioned on another thread about books.
Step 5:     Get or borrow and read two books: Mark Levine's The Fine Print of Self-Publishing, and Helen Sedwick's Self-Publisher's Legal Handbook.
Step 6:     Talk to some other photographers who have done books and hear what they went through.

By the time you've done all that, I will have written up an outline of my whole process and if LuLa doesn't want to publish it, I'll put it on my own website and post a link here.

For my first book I'm sticking with Blurb, soft-cover, 8x10" landscape format, with 106 pages and 80 black-and-white images. I hope to do a color book after this one is out, and color means I will have to rethink a lot of issues.

That's my 2 centimes so far.

-Eric

Wow! Thanks for the info.