A couple of months ago I came across an ad or an email for Saal Digital (https://www.saal-digital.com) and upon request received a voucher to try out their company. They have various products, but I chose to make an 8×8 photo album for a friend (she hasn’t see it yet, so no telling).

First thing you have to do is download the building software. Since I have a Mac this was easy enough. The photo book building program is similar to others I’ve used (Shutterfly, which is on their site, and Blurb which is also a downloaded software) so it didn’t take me long to figure out how to use it. Most of these sites have a standard number of pages you can fill and then each additional page costs a little more, so I kept the standard number of pages and placed one photo per page. Since I was creating what was more or less a portfolio book this worked nicely.

The book is good quality, higher ended than either Shutterfly or Blurb. The spine and back are black leather and the front looks like a clear plastic so the cover image can shine though but won’t be damaged. The pages are a thick and heavy duty card-stock so they don’t bend. This gives each photo the feel of being mounted with a nice shine that gives life and light to each page and picture.

Would I make another book? Yes, either for a gift or a special presentation copy. Like I said, it’s a higher end self-designed product and the price will reflect that, but it was easy to make, good solid quality, and the customer service was excellent.

You can check them out at saal-digital.com

What’s going on?

Where’d half the links go??

Why is that woman yelling at that cat???

Can’t help you with the last one, but as for the first two I’m in the midst of revamping the page. I wanted to get it done for the new year, but of course that didn’t quite happen. It’ll likely be an ongoing process for a while, but hopefully within the next week or so it’ll congeal into its next iteration. In the meantime, stay tuned to blog posts and peruse what’s around. Much of it is still here and will soon be updated.

Thanks for your patience and happy new year : )

One of my favorite portraits from my first year (2015-2016) will appear digitally down under in a couple of weeks. Now I just need a photo of a kangaroo in a bow tie checking out my photo in a gallery. It could happen; everyone in Australia has a kangaroo right?

: P

I’d settle for even a wallaby…

It’s not everyday you get to see your work on display.

It’s certainly not every day that it’s in a bathroom.

Hopefully this isn’t commentary for either Amy or me : P

Another Digital appearance for this piece, this time in Slovenia. Woot!

After what seems like a fairly dry spell I managed to get some people scheduled for shoots. This was the first time I’d photographed M, so we started with a basic portrait session in my back yard. Since I usually work with people who aren’t used to being photographed, certainly not formally, I like to spend most of the first session talking and getting them used to the fact that I have a camera. By the end we usually have made a small handful of good photos. I only share the ones my creative partner has approved. They can be found on the Public Galleries page.

Got this two days ago.

I’m guessing it was this past November and the notices just went out late : P

Either way…woot!

At the tail end of last month I took a day trip to Flagstaff with a friend her daughter for senior portraits. They’d hoped to catch the autumn leaves, but it was REALLY cold and the leaves had pretty much become the annual carpet of the woods. But we made do for an hour or so.

There are four I really liked that they didn’t pick, so I’m putting them in the Public Galleries under the date 2019-10-29

So…woke up this:

I’ve had a few photos appear in Digital display this year, but this time this photo will appear IN PRINT* in Spain. If I understand the listing this will be ONE of FORTY photos appearing in print from the challenge.

 

The image in question:

Sharing again because I didn’t include the link to the gallery page.

Public Galleries

There. Now go look at the rest.  : P