In these remarks I will try to present a more or less complete example of a book I have made on the Blurb print-on-demand platform. I treat this platform, largely, as a medium of expression rather than as a platform for selling. Normally, I will buy a handful of copies of a book for myself and to give away, and leave it at that.
Without further ado:
The Concept
I've been living here in Bellingham, Washington state, for a handful of years now, and the summers have struck me. We're just a hair below the 49th parallel here, so the days get very long in the summer (and, correspondingly, short in the winter). It's a very athletic town, a lot of mountain-bikers, triathletes, a lot of small craft boating, that sort of thing. It's a college town, and a very "sticky" kind, in the sense that a lot of graduates simply hang about the place. So, summers are filled with young people and slightly frantic activity. The place fairly hums during the achingly long days, we're all sleep deprived from ...
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Andrew became a mathematician about the time the internet became the world-wide-web, but fell in to software development by accident. After 25 years of that he's just Dad. All along, Andrew took pictures, some of them small ones, and formed opinions, some of them big ones. He lives in Bellingham, WA, with his beautiful wife and two small daughters.
Andrew's slightly unorthodox ideas for the beginning photographer can be found here: http://intro-to-photography.blogspot.com/
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