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Sounds wonderful. New Hampshire generally and the White Mountains in particular are truly beautiful places. I like both the mountains in the West and the East, I wouldn't want to give up either. There are times in the dead of winter when I'm scraping ice off my car, I wonder WTF I live in the East. Switzerland is one of my favorite places in the world. I think it is the proximity of the small towns to the mountains and lakes which make it such a paradise. You can hike all day and go to a cafe at night, a museum the next day. In the US it always seems like the best natural places are far more remote from civilization.
Have taken many pictures but not digital
That Montana trip was my first trip where I took nothing but digital pictures. This was a big step for me. I've had digital cameras for years and all my clients use them now but it's only recently that I've felt they were good enough to compete with my old film cameras for my exhibition prints.
I also did a small offset book with the pictures and it was the first time I was able to do something like that, that involved zero consumables. I shot digital, uploaded to the laptop, edited on the desktop, added captions in the book software, uploaded to the publishing company and five days later a 50 page, hard back, completely bound, offset printed book arrived in my mailbox for the total cost of $40. No film, paper, proofing or even delivery cost until the PO charge to receive the book. It is beautiful, not the finest printing in the world but the best for the price. I've worked on photography books for 30 years and it has never been so simple, so cheap and trash free to self publish a book. |
