[SoFoBoMo] no more pictures
Last Friday, I went hiking on the greenbelt after work, and got a few more flower pictures, including this unidentified blue/purple beauty that I had never seen before. It's not in my wildflower book and I'd love to know what it is.
Saturday saw me driving down to Lost Maples State Natural Area, where I took pictures of pretty foliage, some endangered Texas Snowbells (also not in the flower book, but I had an article about them in a magazine just recently) and a pretty little blue sage at the end of the day.
Finally, I went to Bastrop State Park on Sunday and hiked a good chunk of the Lost Pines trail. I turned around at the power line cut, so it was only about 6 miles. The ferns are still lush.
And that's the end of taking pictures for SoFoBoMo. I may add more pictures from SoFoBoMo to my photo blog (solarphage) but I won't be taking any more. Yesterday and today I've been processing the images from those three days, and now I'm ready to start doing final editting and actually start assembling my book.
My original plan for that editting had been to print all of the pictures as 6x9" prints on 8.5x11" paper and hang them on the wall in my office so I could ponder them together while I was at work. That ran into problems because my new office has windows and the glare meant I could only put up about 20 pictures before I ran out of good viewing space. Right now I've got 48 candidates for the book.
I may try flipping through all 48 like a portfolio, but I think that will get unwieldy, so I'm going to try to do it digitally. If I still had two matched monitors, I'd be able to put a picture on each monitor and work like that, but my second Planar screen has crapped out on me the same way the first one did, so I'm stuck.
I also get the feeling that viewing distance is critical. I had one picture up on the wall at work and I kept saying to myself "that one isn't good enough". I took it down to put something else up, and looking at it closer I fell in love with it again. That's more like the distance you look at a book at, so I need to figure out how to simulate that more intimate viewing experience if I want to accurately judge what's best for a book.