Through the Lens - CLOSED

Merry Christmas - Take time and smell the flowers

With shares tumbling, banks being recapitalised and budgets running over forecast it is easy to get bogged down and feel depressed about work and the economy. But as photographers we are privileged. We get to meet people - the great and the good, the famous and the infamous. We capture memories and despite what people think we have a special skill that everyone recognises but few can replicate. Take a break over Christmas, reflect on how lucky we are and come back refreshed and invigorated in the New Year. In the meantime Merry Christmas.

MyPublisher.Com

I just want to share my experience of MyPublisher.com. Every year my lovely mother in law expects a photograph of her gran children - not much to ask for I know - after all I am a photographer. For as long as I have had children this has always been a last minute scramble - after all I had paying clients to attend to first. Well last year I resolved never again and I set about working on the 2008 present on the 25th of Dec 2007. My intention was to create a collection and present them as a book. I wasn't sure how but I was confident it could be done. All went swimmingly throughout the year - images were captured at family events, as the boys played or simply as we went about our daily life. Nice pictures for Granny - some even taken by her granchildren! I then came across MyPublisher.Com. Although I never heard of them I downloaded their software and began to mess with a layout. Before I knew it I had half year of images laid out in book and it looked pretty good. The year progressed and we went into autumn armed with summer holidays and back to school images. During the past few months two close relatives passed away and now the book has a significance that I didn't appreciate when I set out. My aunt passed away and was buried last week. I came home from her funeral and finished the book with a single image of her taken on Christmas day last year. I uploaded the images expecting not to get the books till the new year - but that was OK - it had been a tough month. Within 24 hours an email arrived in my inbox from MyPublisher.Com. My books had been printed and were waiting to be assembled and dispatched. There was a tracking button for Fedex. Today my books arrived and they are perfect. So a big thank you to all at MyPublisher.Com - keep up the good work.