One II

Looking back to yesterday when I shot and made a book in about 2 hours and 15 minutes, I thought about the experience. In the heat of it, there was no thought whatsoever, which was good. There was no time to over-think, procrastinate, or second guess myself. There was only time to do it.

As most of you who replied mentioned, the layout was questionable. Of course, there was no thought put into it. In going back to the book and looking again at what I had, I may do a, as Kate said, One Prime. Then again, I may not. I like the rawness of the book as it stands. The rawness, or roughness, fits the title and the intent. Were I to think about making it a coffee table book, I’d change the title, do some additional editing, etc; however, at this time, that is not in the works.

This exercise did give me some much needed visual feedback. Were I to assemble the book into a more polished version I would divide the pictures by chapter, if you will. One chapter might be simply called “Red”, another, “Green”, another “Curves”, and a final chapter, perhaps “Stalks”. Who knows. These are some that popped into my head.

Side effects

There were some interesting side effects. First, Anita said:

Paul, I had already taken this post quite personally. It seemed precisely tailored to address my time concerns. Thanks a million for shining a light down the path.

Wow! I’m glad that I helped. The only targeted outcome was to see what I could do in an hour. Cool!

The second side effect was even more humbling when I got elevated to “hero” status by “Pope Paul”, AKA, Paul Butzi in this post entitled: The end of angst! I’m really glad that Paul got something so positive out of this. Again, cool! As you can tell, my brain’s thesaurus is off-line today as the best that I could do was “cool”.

A final side effect was in finding out how much I love that garden. I may switch my topic! Grrrrr!!!

OK, back to what I learned. Initially, I was thinking of adding words opposite the pictures, but now I think that I’ll just stick with picture titles and come up with some format that I like. Perhaps the title will be on the left page, in large-ish bold letters. Perhaps they will occupy the top or side of the page, depending on the orientation. Food for thought.

Anyway, the project, in my estimation, was a rousing success as far as giving me new ideas about the finished product. It gave me just the shot of inspiration that I needed, and it seems, gave others that shot as well.

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