Thanks very much for your responses and good wishes.
I've had a bit of a yearning to get a book up for many years (thought I had enough decent landscape images of my region to warrant a selection for a small book).
My friend runs a very stylish bookshop in the tourism hub of the area.
It's very much a tourist destination and she saw a real need for a memento/gift book with local content and came up with the concept.
We originally thought we'd put together a sample and take it to different publishers and see if they'd run with it.
By the time we had a good sample, we anticipated the next question (nice, but do you have enough content for a whole book?) so we set about bulking it up a little.
Before long we thought "we're halfway there let's keep going".
We did and after a fair bit of work and many layout changes etc. we self published.
The fun bit now is self promoting and distributing.
The photography is all mine, basically all landscapes, I also photographed most of the artworks included (35 local artists) My friend Michelle, handled all the layout, design and all sorts of other processes (big job).
It's called 'Sapphire, images and art of the sapphire coast' and is available in local bookshops and tourist outlets.
It was picked up by a major chain in Canberra, the nation's capital which was encouraging.
The size and feel and number of pages was a compromise based around economic rationale.
I'd love to show a few of the artworks which are all lovely but won't for any possibility of copyright issues.
I loved the chance to include some intimate landscape shots which don't necessarily stand on their own but seem to fit well in the book format.
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