![]() Certainly other books have covered this ground before the subjects are the familiar, always compelling icons of Americana-people on saddle horses, surrounded by sweeps of aspen trees and luminous snow-topped mountains, woodsy firesides and lots of critters. It’s one of those rawhide, big sky photographic celebrations of cowboys. Three Ranches depicts a year of life on a stretch of cattle country west of the Medicine Bow Mountains in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. (They’d done so with all their titles, even those with corporate funding behind them.) Their self-published and self-financed 2000 title, All Over the Map: Travel Photographs and the Stories Behind Them debuted to great reviews and was voted “Photography book of the Year” by the Independent Publisher Association.Īll Photos © Will and Deni McIntyre/Loose Ends Press 2012Ībove: This image, one of many featured in Three Ranches, depicts a cowboy checking on a member of the A Bar A Ranch herd after a September snowfall. They’d learned great lessons from their previous books, and despite taking an occasional financial risk, they knew the trade-off value of maintaining control over such a product. ![]() ![]() The McIntyres took on the project with the proviso that they would do the publishing, including design, photo editing and supervision of pre-press, printing and bindery functions. Now the McIntyres have a personal imprint, Loose Ends Press, and just released their eighth glossy, beautifully-reproduced hardcover title, Three Ranches. One married photography team, Will and Deni McIntyre, sensed the beginning of this change in the book world years ago, and produced their first self-published title. The days of conventional photo book publishing-with its shrinking budgets, heavy production cost hurdles, and an audience more and more prone to the distractions of cyberspace-seem to be a thing of the past. Enter your email in the widget below to verify your entry, and then earn extra entries below for a chance to win a $100 MyPublisher photo book.When it comes to self-publishing a book, photographers have many cost-effective options to choose from, including production software such as Lulu, Blurb, CreateSpace (aka BookSurge), Shutterfly, My Publisher, MixBook, among others. Sign up for MyPublisher’s newsletter here to receive your free photo book code.Ģ. Visit MyPublisher to receive this exclusive offer to I Heart Arts n Crafts readers: a code for a free photo book! And one winner will receive $100 towards another MyPublisher photo book!ġ. Your photo books are meant to to last a long time, and maybe even heirlooms for your children which I why recommend MyPublisher for your next photo book. Here are some ideas for your next photo book: Ours turned out so great we plan on making one every year. And for even more protection you can choose the super gloss printing option which gives you not only more vibrant photos but your pages will be scratch and spill resistant, which is perfect when these books are around those little hands! There are different slipcover options such as a genuine leather, photo finish, book jacket, and the linen cover. My favorite thing about MyPublisher is the amazing quality that you receive with these hand-made photo books. The program is very user friendly and walks you through each step of uploading your photos, selecting your layouts, and dragging and dropping the selected images. ![]() There are a ton of ways to personalize your book from different covers, 4 different sizes, patterned end sheets, window boxes, book jacket,etc. This is the perfect way to remember all of those milestones and your favorite moments to share with your loved ones. My pile of photos are now all included in this photo book I designed for my daughter for her first year. That was until I came across MyPublisher and had the opportunity to create one of these gorgeous photo books. You know the scrapbook that after two kids I still have yet to make, so my photos are just stored away while I continue to add to the never ending pile. That’s not including all of the images on my desktop and my hard drive, all of these had the intention to be put away for my “scrapbook”. On just my Iphone alone I have over 1000 images from this year of my kids that I’ve been meaning to sort through. ![]() “Because Tomorrow This Day Will Be A Blur To Them,” one of my favorite quotes and one of the reasons why I will never stop taking pictures of my children. ![]()
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