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Sonargaon walk – and SoFoBoMo 2010 almost done

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SoFoBoMo 2010 book nearing completion.


Made another visit to Panam Nagar in Sonargaon this morning… not early enough though and we got caught up in a bad traffic tangle going out which added to the delay. Early morning light was gone, harsh bright sunlight was fine in a way because most of the main street is so narrow that the shadows from the buildings helped. A movie team were all over the place today, banging away at beautiful old buildings with nails, cans of bright paint could be seen waiting to be splattered over some unsuspecting ruin, drills and screws ready in the hand of the crew who were “setting up” the scene for some fancy Bangla movie to be shot. Shudder to think of the damage they must have inflicted by now. Oh, an I could not get in to photograph some of the old buildings because they said I needed to obtain written permission from “the authorities” whoever that might be.

The SoFoBoMo 2010 photos are all done, and a rough book layout is ready [right click link, download PDF to PC, set viewing preference in Adobe to VIEW->PAGE DIAPLAY->TWO-UP].

Text yet to be written.  Groan!

Book test

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SoFoBoMo 2010 PDF book layout design test.

Placement, positioning, sequencing, formatting yet to be decided…

The work-in-progress “book” can be downloaded here.
[File size around 5.7 mb. Best to right-click the link and save a copy to your PC].

Suggested viewing mode in Adobe is:  

VIEW -> PAGE DISPLAY ->  TWO-UP

There is a 15mb file limit for hosting the finished book at SoFoBoMo.org which should be plenty of MBs from the looks of my progress so far!

SoFoBoMo 2010 – 1st photo outing

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June 4th 2010
Went out to Panam City [Panam Nagar] and Sonargaon village which is around 27 km from Dhaka to do a first session of walk-about photos – mostly doors and windows of the old ruins. It was an overcast day with a strong possibility of a violent thunderstorm later in the morning. Had planned to be out by 5 am but my alarm was not correctly set and I got to sleep-in an hour extra – a Freudian slip maybe ;-)

Spent a couple of hours at Panam City, which was the ancient capital of East Bengal before Dhaka [Dacca] was made the capital. Got back home could see the low dark clouds gathering and rolling in – a few minutes later a massive thunderstorm with high speed winds.

Anyway, processed a few images and liked some trashed many. Here are a few samples…

SoFoBoMo 2010 – starts on June 1st 2010

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SOFOBOMO 2010:  

Solo Photo Book Month [SoFoBoMo] 2010 will start in 58 days on the 1st day of June 2010 and will end/close on 31st July 2010.  What is SoFoBoMo? Read more about it here .  You can view all the completed books from 2009 and my last book at the official website. This project is great fun, I urge you to go register and go do it! Here is Paul Butzi’s [the guy who started it all] blog post, its a nice place to start reading up on the project.

 
Taken with D3 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 AI-s lens.  

Solo Photo Book Month – The worst photo competition in the world.

A lot of photographers have considered making a book, but various concerns have stopped them. Heck, the same concerns stopped us. We worried that our photos weren’t good enough. We worried that we didn’t have enough photos. We worried that we couldn’t write the text, or couldn’t present a nice layout, or that we didn’t have the time to do a good job.

  

SoFoBoMo gives us (and you) a way around those fears. There’s no requirement that the photos be good (but we suspect you’ll be surprised by how good yours are). There’s no requirement to have any text at all (but that doesn’t mean you can’t write pages of flowing prose). And there is no requirement on quality of layout. There are just three constraints: all the work must be done in one continuous 31 day period that falls completely inside the two month window, the book must contain at least 35 photos, and you have to generate a PDF of the book. That’s it.  If you could translate any of the information pages then we’d be delighted if you would help. Please contact lingo@sofobomo.org

 

SoFoBoMo started in English. People joined in from all over the world. We’d like to see more people join in from more countries and in more languages because photos speak for themselves. If you would like more information please visit www.sofobomo.org

It is free to participate. There are very few rules and absolutely no prizes. It is a lot of fun. You’ve nothing to lose.