I decided tonight I need to design
and do a Blurb book for the upcoming New Orleans PhotoNOLA show. I have started
to design the book at work tonight as time permits, using my laptop. The book
will be called "Tears of a Butterfly, The Photographs of Gerry Yaum".
It will be a 50 page (50 or so photos) 8x10 inch hardcover book in the
landscape format (the longer length will be the vertical dimension). I will
limit myself to 35mm Leica photos made in the last 3 years in
Poipet Cambodia, Klong Toey slum in Bangkok, Thailand and the garbage
dump in Mae Sot Thailand. I have already put together a 50 page basic draft of
the book, hopefully I can get it refined and focused by Monday. The problem with
doing these books is getting the pictures right, I will have to find all the
negs I am using and rescan them to produce larger files, then I will have to
touch them up with Photoshop Elements. After everything looks good on the
computer I will need to send out for two or possibly three soft cover
test books to blurb before printing the more expensive hard cover version. This
all needs to be accomplished and completed before my next Thai trip. It will be
lots of work and the end result is only so so in quality as black and white
photos always have a bit a bit off (color tint) in them when
printed by an online publisher like Blurb.
This is the best I can do,
no book publishers are lining up to print a REAL book for me so
I have to try to do something acceptable by myself. I can take this book down
to the PhotoNOLA show which will allow the guests at the opening to see a larger
selection of my work.
