Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Oops! Me bad! Me stupid!!



I made a big goof on the cover of my 'California Beach Trip" book - the image on the cover ran off the top of the page! Talk about stupid!
The blurberati were nice enough to pull it off amazon, and let me fix it.
But now in the previews i see, the text below the image isn't centered, even though in the edit preview, i did everything i could to center it. Is there a ghost in the machine?Hmmm - what do you think? Oh well, next time/next book i won't use the text boxes, that oughta solve that one.


REVISED LINKS:



If you want to see all the pages before you buy:

Friday, December 11, 2015

'Fire, walk with me'

Quoting Rumi, once again:

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”




A cairn marks the way, an explorer has taken direction, and set off into the fathomable, unknowable distance. Flames rise around the explorer. He is lit up, 'on a mission from god' to quote a movie i saw, i think the Blues Brothers, an unlikely source of a quote describing this image.
Do you recognize the image title? It's from 'Twin Peaks', a David Lynch masterpiece.
And it never hurts to quote Gautama Buddha's last words: "walk on!"
And, yes, set your life on fire.

Sunday, December 6, 2015

A slight interuption in the normal flow of images.


After 20+ years of making darkroom photomontage, and not being able to get arrested for it, I am publishing books i make with Blurb, getting them on Amazon.

I recently published a revised version of the 'California Beach Trip' images - marvelous and mind-bending B&W darkroom montage images - done almost 20 years ago for a multimedia company that never used them.
The first version was a 'pull out all the stops' thing, adding many new digital images, & overlaying text on the images. i asked two excellent designer friends of mine what they thought, and both answered the same - 'get back to basics, just the B&W, use very little text, & don't put it on the images'.
I took their advice. So here it is, hope you enjoy - it is also much more affordable, fewer images and no blank pages. Add a copy to your bookshelf, or buy the e-Book - now that's affordable!


On Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1364681250?keywords=California%20beach%20trip&qid=1449102160&ref_=sr_1_3&s=books&sr=1-3


http://www.blurb.com/books/6661547-california-beach-trip-photomontage-by-bob-bennett#basic

http://www.blurb.com/books/6661547-california-beach-trip-photomontage-by-bob-bennett/pages/0#basic

http://www.blurb.com/b/6661547-california-beach-trip-photomontage-by-bob-bennett

Yes, there are 3 different URL's, which seem to work differently on various browsers/systems - one of them will work for you, i sure hope!

The preview can't show all the images, but you can see them at the link below.

http://www.bobbennettphoto.net/BT_BW_Bk/index.html

There's two more books waiting in the wings, stay tuned, I'll be back!