BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

The link to a flip book should open a flip book that I put together. Note that the three titles on the cover are only for me to judge the color before I spend a bunch having a foil imprint done. All images are from a series of trips to the north central portion of North Dakota with Tillman Crane out of Camden, ME.

There is still some editing to be done and there are two images that may be removed before I print up ten copies on Hahnemuhle Photo Book and Rag paper, hand bind into a text block and then case in in a square back cover.

Suggestions? Way to improve this? Have at it.....

P.S. give it a bit to render the pages, it can be slow and the site tells me they only keep these for 30 days unless you want to pay extra. Program used to convert pdf pages to the flip-book format was Flip PDF.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

A very impressive project, Bob! I found it interesting as well as photographically pleasing.

Nicholas J DeSciose

Exceptional, wonderful terrific accomplishment graduations.. Now keep on going. The world needs your voice

timcc Loc: Virginia

Great concept and fun to look at. Some of the photos looked a bit too dark to my eye, but it may be my monitor rather than how they will print in the photobook. My only suggestion is to put the two piano shots together and maybe cut one or two old window pics. Are you planning to annotate the photos to give locations, any background (e.g., previous uses), or other interesting historical or geographical trivia? Well done!

shieldsadvert

Nicely done. I like the reverse (white) type on the cover in the location you have chosen. No captions are necessary in my opinion.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

I suppose those farm house pictures are from family farms that have been replaced my factory mega farms. They give a little taste of what it was like to live during forever-gone days.

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

Actually they are all family owned. When Grandma and Grandpa either pass away or have to move into town (these farms are isolated) or to a nursing home, the kids really don't have a use for the old houses, many of which are either without basements or have a rap wall basement/crawlspace and possibly no insulation. If they are town down that is an "improvement" and has negative tax consequences for the heirs/children. Many appear as if the "old folks" just packed a suitcase and left. Family bibles, pianos, toys, books - all sorts of "memories" are left behind. Some, however, are unsafe to enter.

What is nice is that this is organized and the County Sheriff has our license plate #s so they while we may see them they do leave us alone as they know we are there with permission of the owners.

All these locations are within 30 or so miles of Rugby, ND.

some of the farms are 5000-10,000 acres, but are all family owned and many run by brothers/sisters.

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

Yep! It is not your monitor. I have already made adjustments to the images to bring them into a limited luminosity range. The page layouts were done in Photoshop CC. I always leave the layers intact so I can go back and adjust luminosity, color balance, etc when I come to the final layout and see the image on the facing page at the same time.

I'm not going to do any annotations.

Thanks for your comments

Ourspolair

All beautifully done. Looks perfect on my monitor. Excellent work. Now you have given me an idea for Christmas gifts to my family! (Oh no, more time on the computer....) Please stay well and keep up the great work. Thanks for sharing.

jaredjacobson

These are terrific. There are a few that I would rotate just a little bit. I love the old piano, though I hate to see it in that condition. Your composition and choice of subjects is wonderful.

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

Some of the images are deceiving. In fact all are on the "level" so to speak as I shoot on a tripod and use the artificial horizon. Those where they seems to be a "lean" is because many of the floors are starting to cave in, some don't even have the floors on the ground level anymore as they are resting askew in the basement.