This is always a good day, the day which I spend money to finally order my book. After months of working on this project, countless layout and font changes and tons of photo edits, it is finished. People often ask me why I don't sell this service and make books for others since they like my books so much. The truth is this just takes too long. The 70 pages of this book took me over a month to make. Mostly it is due to the endless photo edits. Since I am paying for the upgraded paper and lots of money to print this book I better make the pictures good. There are a few I missed, a few I might change given a chance, but it done and I need to let go and just order.
Of course the interesting thing about these book is the jealousy with the boys now. When I am working on a book for one of them, the other always wants to know when their newest book will be done. During the month of creating this I have had to read "Elliot, 2 years old" endless amounts of time. Also friends have had to sit through that book and talk to Elliot about all the pictures. Personally I am glad they are getting used and my kids are keeping their memories through this books. I wish I had more pictures before I was 5 because I don't remember much and don't have many pictures. This is not a criticism of my parents, we had a house fire when I was 12 and all my childhood pictures perished. This was the days before digital and file backups.
So if you want to check it out, here is the latest book. I will disclaim that this month has been hard for me personally so I didn't have it in me to do a book with all the text and a fancy layout. Instead I just went for the basics, with one little bit of text and lots and lots of pictures. I will probably regret that in a few years, but it is what I had to do this month.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
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About Heather
- Heather
- I am a Los Angles based photographer and mom of 2 wonderful boys. Photography has been a passion of mine over 15 years now, ever since I picked up my first camera in journalism school and started developing my black and whites in a darkroom. The instant an affordable DSLR came out on the market in 2002, I had to have one and have been shooting digital since. Once I became a mom I realized how much I enjoy photographing children and how much better I could understand their nuances so it became a passion of mine. Their is such innocence and beauty in their pictures and I feel privileged to be a part of that. I am constantly trying new approaches and tuning my skills to create the art that is in my head, not just the art that I can create right now. I am very interested in off camera flash, and the depth and clarity it adds to my photographs. Sometimes I take breaks from my blog and photography, but it seems to never leave me completely. I always come back.