It has been almost a month since I started working on my intimate landscape photography book project. Initially, I mentioned that I wanted to limit the book to new photos only, and some of our readers asked about it. This is something that I have thought more in recent weeks.
I provided an answer in the comment section of my first photo book diarrhea article: “If my only goal was the preparation product, I can make the book fast and potentially better by drawing with my existing photos. But my more important goal is a tool for this book that helps to run my photography in the coming years. If I can do much more beneficial for using my old work.
This has proved to be true so far. Due to this project, I have gone out more often for photography in the last month and discovered some attractive new places. However, in my time, wandering the forest and mountains of Colorado, I began to realize that there was more than encouraging me to go out and encourage more photos. A separate, less clear, but equally important reasons to limit it to new work: Intentionally construction of a mutually related whole,
Whatever picture I have taken last month, it is keeping this book in mind. Consequently, hopefully, the book will not only have a amalgamation of individual, unrelated photographs, but an integrated body of work. Each image is captured with other images – the entire book – keep in mind from the beginning. I would still like to make them stand as good pictures on my own, but they should be strong when you look together.
This is a very new approach to me for photography. In the past, I never went out of my way to create a multi-image series, let’s book such a photo book alone. This changes things like my choice and places of my choice, and perhaps my creations, knowing that they eventually need to fit together like pieces of a puzzle.
With this, today, I am happy to share the first image with you, which I hope to appear in the book. I call it Espains in sunlight,
Although I am happy with this one, I have to accept, not a single picture after a month is not a quick speed! It is a bit difficult to think how much time this project can take if I am preparing 12 photos in only one year or a year. I have to remind myself that my goal is not to fill the book as soon as possible with a group of images. Instead, my primary goal is to improve as a photographer, and my secondary goal is to produce quality work. Slowly fine, even desirable, as long as it leads to a real improvement in better photos and my photographic knowledge.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this brief rightup, as well as the photo I had for you today. Thanks for following the photo book diary series so far!
