In February 2003 I spent about a week in in the desert, mostly in Death Valley, with photographer and friend Steve Fibonacci. It was an amazing week, and resulted in many wonderful photographs (some of which can be seen here: Death Valley Portfolio).
A couple months afterwards, I assembled a collection of 18 photographs from that trip and prototyped a small book called "Death Valley: 18 Photographs". Originally, it was going to be limited to 15 hand made copies--each of the 18 images would be an actual photograph mounted on the book page, signed and numbered in pencil. After printing most of the photographs, and many of the pages on card stock, the project just sort of died. But the design was done, the Introduction was written, and Steve even wrote a great Forward for the piece.
Just recently I found the files on my computer, and decided to instead publish this book as a PDF file and make it freely available on my web site. With any luck, the book will be completed and available on the web some time this weekend! I've also started work on a second electronic book...more on that later.
[ photograph above: Mesquite Flat Dunes, Death Valley National Park, 2003 ]
