[Kestrana]

I don’t think we need money for this project, just a donation of time.
What I meant is that, as I’m a new contributor to this site, I don’t know much of the history of Farktography or who everyone is. I don’t know whether or not people are cool with just taking the project and running with it. Likewise, no one here knows me well; only my enthusiasm and a few sets of half-decent photographs.

Also there’s questions I would have about legality/copyright issues with some photographs (i.e. what do we do with some gorgeous pictures we’d like to publish but maybe the photographer cannot be contacted). As an editor you never work in a vacuum, you always have other sets of eyes look over your work. And while I might have one or several ideas to all the questions I posed above, it’s entirely likely that other people have different/better ideas or solutions. That’s what I mean by community input.

[Kestrana]

Hahaha, I’ll be happy to help for sure but as this is a community we definitely should have some community input.

[Kestrana]

There’s a couple things that probably should be decided if the community wants to proceed with this project:

1. Who or whom is going to be the leader(s) (i.e. the person coordinating and keeping up on any deadlines)?
2. How many pictures do you want to include? This is directly tied to the size and quality of the book you are creating so all those questions kind of have to be answered together.
For example, if you publish through blurb.com, a standard landscape size book is (10×8 in) 161-200 pages. The prices are for softcover: US $43.95 hardcover: US $56.95 imagewrap: US $60.95
For a 200 page book, you might assume that 50% of the pages will have a single photograph on them, 35% will have 2, 10% will have 3 and 5% will be textual (table of contents, chapter pages, index etc). This gives you the opportunity to select approximately 300 shots total. If that’s too expensive or maybe the book isn’t as big as you want to go then obviously the number of pictures that can be included will change.
3. What process should be used to decide which pictures make the cut? Critical mass consensus, voting, some mixture of methods, for example.
4. Do you want input from the greater Fark community or just people who regularly contribute here?
5. How is the book going to be organized?

I was a yearbook editor in high school and college, as well as publishing my own things through blurb.com so I’m somewhat familiar with this sort of process.

[Kestrana]

I quit hardcore raiding WoW. Suddenly days seem 5x as long.

[Kestrana]

lots of great photos, and I didn’t think I was going to be too interested in the entries this week.

I felt the same way but like just kat I felt a nice swell of patriotism from a lot of the pictures and was also amazed at how many wonderful entries there are.

[Kestrana]

/breathless with anticipation
//feeling lightheaded
///i imk h,k8vy h

[Kestrana]

I actually put the camera in our freezer because I thought if there was water in there our freezer might help. It’s one of those not condensing ones where there’s no frost/ice on the sides and where if you leave ice in it the ice will evaporate eventually.

Its good its a non-condensing freezer but I would be cautious about doing that much. Condensation usually forms on a camera lens when taking between extremes of temperature. When I lived in the Nevada desert I would see condensation on a camera lens (and my glasses and other things of that nature) going from the 90 degree dry heat to an air-conditioned building. Like yours however, usually letting it sit for awhile straightened out the problem.

[Kestrana]

According to a friend of mine who is more of a professional than I, you can sometimes remove condensation from a camera lens by putting it in a ziplock bag and then somewhere warm and dry. If it is really condensation, the moisture in the lens will transfer to the bag in an attempt to diffuse to the dry environment.

[Kestrana]

I have also published books through blurb.com and they turned out great. Once the images are chosen, putting them together in a logical and appealing layout is relatively simple, publication is fast and you can use your own book store web page to sell copies.

[Kestrana]

I miss thunderstorms so much but lightning in the mountains is one of the most amazing sights ever.

[Kestrana]

And my boyfriend selling his 1968 Mustang tomorrow before I have time to take copious amounts of pictures of it makes me a sad panda.

[Kestrana]

This is a contest where I too am going to hit random buttons and see what happens.

[Kestrana]

Welcome Kestrana!

Nice stuff already. I particularly liked your museum pic.

Thanks, I interned there!

[Kestrana]

Kestrana – welcome to the…well not really a madhouse. More of a house for slightly off creative geeks. Anyway, stick around. It’s pretty neat.

Thank you, I really liked your Less is More selections and your iguana this week I second as thoroughly interesting.

[Kestrana]

Oh hey
There’s a forum I should be reading.
Well I missed the message about only posting from themes you participated in but I will comfort myself with the fact I’ve been oogling Fark since 2001 without the proper nerve to actually participate in anything until recently.

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