Publishing

I received in the mail today, my first published book of my own photography. After reading about printing-on-demand (POD) services in the Journal last week, I ordered a book from mypublisher. It is just a sample of my photographs over the last two years, no particular theme, but some of my favorites.

It came out looking great! I am actually inspired to try and sell a few. So I may attempt to come up with a theme, maybe even some text or poetry or something to accompany the pictures.

My initial ideas are for my favorite things feel free to vote for yours:
1. A series of books featuring Yellowstone.
- Yellowstone at Dawn
- Yellowstone at Dusk
- Yellowstone in the Dark

2. A book of the Franklin Park Conservatory (though this will need permission to publish commercially)
- These are some of my favorite photos here and here

3. Insects
- I have taken a lot of pictures of bees on flowers and I love the way they turn out.

I have also considered making a deal to help people publish their vacation photos this way. Maybe the Yellowstone Pharmacy would let me sell to their photography developing customers. However, the margins would be small so I would need to figure out how to get more volume. Perhaps the various fishing and tour guide services would want to offer this service. I could even offer to let people fill the extra pages of their books with my own collection of photos.

Well, this will require more thought, but I hope I come up with more excuses to print these wonderful little books.