Last month I wrote about blind spots. I’d like to take another shot at the subject, but from a different angle. Before I attained the exalted status of full-time photographer-and-general-layabout, I was an electrical engineer. I worked in different areas: speech recognition, data acquisition and process control, telephone systems, data networking, control networking, and color… [Read More]
Blind Spots
Warning: the photographic part of this month’s blog is preceded by a long non-photographic introduction. Feel free to skip ahead. I’ve been shaving for more than 50 years now. During that time, not much changed. Sure, I’ve always used the latest razors — usually from Gillette. The shaving cream, always from an aerosol can, has… [Read More]
An invitation
I received an email a couple of weeks ago inviting me to participate in a CPA photographic exhibition. The particulars were unusual. Kim Weston curating an exhibition of photographs made or selected in response to a Robinson Jeffers poem. The instructions were to a) pick a Jeffers poem or fragment, b) create or find three… [Read More]
POD specifics
I promised some specifics about my POD experiences. Here we go. I have produced books using both MyPublisher and Blurb, running both of the downloadable page layout aps on Vista. Some of my experiences, especially regarding fonts, may not apply to the Mac OSs. MyPublisher has a few advantages over Blurb: The big books are… [Read More]
More on publishing
Let’s say you wanted to go into the print-on-demand book business. You want to get started on the cheap, so you rent some time on an hp Indigo, cobble together some kind of fulfillment service, and start taking orders. To make customer support less of an issue, you go after a market where your customers… [Read More]
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