The NL book is struggling

I've started the NL book, using much the same layout as previous travel books. It will be a large lay flat book, containing lots of photos, some panoramas, some nearly full page, and my usual 2 per page with some text. At least one will be smaller because I had to crop way in, but I might revisit that and tweak the image for the book. Within Blurb limits, the book can be as thick as I like, containing nearly as many photos as I like. 

The problem is that there are still more photos that want their chance to shine in the book. I could do a full book just on L'anse aux Meadows. The struggle is to figure out which photos trigger memories in me, which photos have a story to tell or to be told about it, which photos are so good they have to go the book, and which photos go together for a good book flow. So far, I've picked a cover and started to place photos. My thinking is that once they're in the book, it's easy to rearrange them. 

Part of the nature of memory, at least my memory, is that it flits from thing to thing, and makes odd connections sometimes. I sometimes think of memory as a giant 3D tapestry, with threads linking events and people and places in ways both obvious and non-intuitive. Our dreams sometimes show us things that are part of the tapestry that we haven't got to yet. 

In some ways, since this is not going to be a commercial book, I want the images to reflect that jumble, but I don't want it just be a lumping of like with like, such as all the waterfalls together, or all the driftwood together, or all the photos of Linda steaming on ahead. 

Some of the photos I already have to think about where that was, or which hike had that view. The digital photos all have a date tag, and I kept notes for the film photos, but we've been back just over a week and I'm already consulting them, and looking things up on maps. Spelling is sometimes tricky.

I'm blogging photos, of course, but I already know that some photos will go in the blog, and some will go in the book, and there will be some overlap. I can think of a few people that will see both the book and blog, and I wouldn't want them to be bored now, would I? If you don't live in Calgary, and want to see the book, there's really only 3 choices. Visit me, persuade me to visit you with the book (good luck!), or buy it. Yes, it's going to be expensive, even by coffee table book standards, but cheaper than visiting. Just saying, there's wine if you visit.

There's lots of places where there are natural arches. This one is near Twillingate, after an easy 1K hike. That is a steep slope down to the water, and I'm pretty sure some people have scrambled down it for awesome photos. Not me. It looks do-able from the top, but these things have a way of going pear-shaped, or worse, downhill in the doing. Just because I think the rocks are stable because they've been there for millennia, doesn't mean they think that. 

Right near the arch is a steep path going up to another long hike. We went up for the view, and turned around. The view is nice. The arch is out of sight on this side of the inlet. A family was going up as we were going down, and we passed each other carefully. There's lots of places where the path is narrow enough that people have to be careful as they pass each other.

Stairs is a charitable word for this. I've been up ladders that weren't as steep as these stairs. The guardrail is necessary.

Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (NL)

Yukon

Film (new)

A quiet spot in a lagoon just off the Bow River.

Michelle

Linda

The beach near the wreck of the SS Ethie. She's smiling after a 6 K march in the sun down to the Western Brook Pond tour boat dock and back. I'm just happy these shallow stairs are a really short walk from the parking lot. This is one of the places I thought about coming back to, but never did.

Newfoundland

Part of the view from the highest point of Terra Nova park.