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SoFoBoMo 2010 – it’s a go

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Well, I guess I have to count last night as the official starting point of my SoFoBoMo project for this year. I was originally planning on starting about a week from now, but last night the rising fog and sunset created a set of circumstances that couldn’t be resisted. I may have just gotten my cover shot…

I’ve already posted about the summer services (suviseurat) that are taking place this year in the fields immediately surrounding our house. The event is huge. It’ll make our county of around 12 000 inhabitants into Finland’s fifth largest city – if only for five days. Based on previous years, it is estimated that around 65 000 people will attend the event. All this in the 150 hectares of fields around our house.

So I will be documenting the event. After all, how often does such an opportunity rise? I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to fine-tune my shooting. Most likely I will shoot general journalistic shots of the event and people just for practice. But I’m mostly interested in documenting what all it takes for a small county to momentarily be so large. In a sense I’m more interested in creating my book from a more behind the scenes perspective.

SoFoBoMo 2009 – Fail…

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This is it. I’m declaring defeat in trying to finish my book (for SoFoBoMo) on time sometime today. I started my fuzzy month on 6.6.2009, so with the 31 day limit I’d still have time. But the time ends today and I’m out of time.

As my topic I chose documenting Finnish retriever hunt tests – something I knew would be occupying my time significantly during the spring and early summer. Because shooting the tests is very dependent on the weather and test locations, I couldn’t start work on creating templates etc. before I knew that I had enough shots to use (and of course I’m quite a procrastinator).

The first two tests we participated in (Luka and I) gave me more than enough shots. However, due to work and life I just didn’t find the inspiration to go through the images and process them. I’d planned on using last weekend to crunch it all together. Of course nothing ever works out quite as intended: a midnight call to fight a fire and surprise invitation to a hunt test 270 km away ruined my plans for the weekend and last two days of the month.

So, what I have now is a solid set of shots that give a good picture of Finnish retriever hunt tests and an outline for the book. So I will continue working on the book (and since I already started using a 30 day evaluation of InDesign, I need to complete it soon). But now I’ll change the idea a bit and expand the book to use shots that I have from hunt tests last year as well – that way I can also use more pictures of Luka ;).

So, if you’re interested, follow this space (or me on Twitter). I’ll keep posting my progess and when the book is finally available.

Maybe next year I’ll choose a project that I can complete in the SoFoBoMo time frame.