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[williamjm]

Over the last couple of years I've uploaded quite a few photographs onto Flickr. I don't really consider myself to be anything other than a fairly average amateur photographer so I was a bit surprised a few months ago to get an e-mail from a small publishing company in Ireland asking me if they could use one of the photographs I'd put up on a Flickr to use in a book they were doing. I said they could, but then didn't hear anything more about it after that so I was starting to think maybe nothing was going to happen.

However, today the book arrived. It is a pocket-sized book entitled "Scottish Wit and Wisdom". It's a short book basically consisting of assorted scenic photographs of various Scottish landmarks (including my picture) on a page with some random Scottish quotes on the opposite page. I've always quite liked the idea of one day having something I did published, I was expecting it to be more likely to be something I'd written rather than a photograph, but it is nice to see a published book I contributed to, even if it is a gimmicky small-press book.

Incidentally, the photograph is this one:


(from http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamjm/130410214/)

It's a photograph of the mountain Schiehallion in Scotland. I'm not quite sure why they picked this particularly photograph as while it is a nice enough photograph it is far from being the best picture I've got on Flickr and I'm sure there must be better pictures of the mountain elsewhere on the Internet.

Comments

[werthead.livejournal.com]

Nice one!