Copy Edit is Complete

The copy editor completed and returned her final sections of a common experience last night. Now it is all up to me. I will spend the weekend finalizing the text and then I will need to complete all final image processing. Then it is just a simple matter of laying out the copy and photos. Actually, it will be fun but a huge amount of work. The last step is to run the final draft through the proof-reader for any last minute post-layout issues.

I am exploring the http://photographybooknow.blurb.com/ contest entry rules to see if it is possible to also commercially publish a common experience in addition to self publishing through Blurb.com.

I will keep you all posted as to my progress and publishing decisions. Thanks for your interest…

An Early Excerpt from the Book, “a common experience”

I am very excited, and anxious, about the release of my first book. I am projecting that it should be completed about mid June. Please help me by spreading the word.

a common experience is a collection of personal short stories, scenes, and photographs that I have collected over several years while hiking and climbing the Colorado mountains. It is not a guidebook book, or an adventure tale, but rather broad life lessons and experiences that I have learned in the context of hiking and climbing. These scenes are accompanied by, and related to, some of my best landscape and mountain images.

Below I have included a short excerpt and a couple of images. Please have a look and stay tuned…

"...And in the moment someone has that “Wow” reaction while looking at one of my images, we might both share an appreciation for the mountains, composition, color, and the effort required to capture it all. In that short span of time, that viewer and I will have something in common. We will have the experience of that place and time captured in an image that required perhaps 1/500 of a second to record. And that experience is what we have in common. It is the common experience that this book tries to capture."

High winds rip snow from the summit of

James Peak (13,294 ft / 4,052 m) in early Spring

as Mike and Jim approach the summit in the distance, May 2008

 

Sunrise on Grays Peak (14,270 ft / 4,350 m)

looking North to Torreys Peak (14,267 ft / 4,349 m), June 2007

Welcome to the Hompage for the Upcoming Book, a common experience

Please check back soon. The book copy is complete and in edit. All of the images have been selected. The next step is to bring the edited copy and images together in a captivating layout.

I will update this page as progress is made.