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No, not a professional photographer at all. I have been publishing a tea photo a day in TeaChat's TeaDay forum for close to a year now. The practice helps.
I put together a book of photos on Lulu for myself (vanity!) and liked the quality of the the prints, but couldn't figure how to control the cropping. I am almost finished compiling another one on Blurb where I can control the cropping. I will post a link when/if I finish the Blurb one. I will set it up at the lowest price Blurb allows since I have no desire to make a profit, but even then I wouldn't recommend that anyone buy a copy. It looks like these self published photo books cost around $30 + shipping, whichever company you use.
Frankly, I can't see why anyone would want a book of such photos. The best way to see them is one at a time on the internet. Here are links to a couple Photobucket slide shows of small files of some of the pix:
http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/...Slide shows/?action=view¤t=d2263b56.pbw
http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/...Slide shows/?action=view¤t=ba65a0fd.pbw
You can left click them for bigger images and right click them (at least in Firefox) to download them or copy them. You are welcome to download them from there for screen savers or whatever non-commercial purpose you like. If you want a full resolution file of anything -- say for a print -- let me know and I will send you one.
I really do appreciate the kind words, but at this point it has become compulsive enough that I would probably keep making them and posting them even if I derived an enormous electric shock each time I did it!
Nice photos indeed. I think there defintely be at least some interest even at some cost. $30 isn't much. I wouldn't mind.
It would be real nice to see your home studio set up. We can all maybe work together to have encyclopedea of the puerhs we drink. I take photos of the teas I drink but far from being decent enough to share. I wonder how you do the lighting and what kind of space is needed to take these photos.
In any case, given that the book contains the front back pictures of beeng/bricks/tuos, and tea colour, spent leaves of sheng/shu we drink, I would defintely pay the money to have it printed.
Your photos are good enough that I want to pay money for it. Thanks for sharing those photos.