Beautiful spring day in Middle Georgia yesterday, so I took advantage:

Added a few from a January visit, as well; a total of 44 new photographs posted.
Book Design and Fine Photography
Photography in all its forms, including — but certainly not limited to — portraiture, landscapes, objects, macros, and still life. Most of the photography Foreword looks at are appropriate for books or walls.
Beautiful spring day in Middle Georgia yesterday, so I took advantage:
Added a few from a January visit, as well; a total of 44 new photographs posted.
New this week is the delightful little town of Yatesville, on the road from Macon to Thomaston:
See the rest in the new Yatesville gallery. And speaking of Thomaston:
Only a few photographs in that gallery, but more when I get a chance. Next, Barnesville:
I could have sworn I had more photographs from there, but am glad to have at least added to that gallery. Lastly, I’ve added to the Forsyth gallery:
All of the new photographs are from Forsyth’s City Cemetery.
Enjoy!
Gerald loaned me his Voigtlander 21mm/ƒ1.8 yesterday, and I took it for a brief spin downtown:
More here — the latest shots are at the bottom of the page — and more soon. Thanks and stay tuned.
There was another photostroll yesterday, which in turn leads to three updated photography galleries, from:
Juliette; and
Also, a new gallery:
Monticello. Five of the posted photographs detail the Old Monticello United Methodist Church, which is discussed on the Georgia Trust website.
Enjoy — and thank you for your support.
Took a trip to Fort Valley and Massee Lane Gardens this Easter, with a stop at Wesley Chapel on the way home, resulting in a new gallery posted. Enjoy!
Thanks to Prof. Gerald Lucas. Photography is always better with company.
The galleries for Macon on my Media site are subdivided by location, but some photography sets don’t really fit into a specific location. Today, I’ve updated the Macon – Miscellaneous gallery with photographs from Hay House, Coleman Hill and Mercer Law, and the Catholic and Baptist churches near downtown. Enjoy!
Former President Carter’s hometown of Plains, Georgia, has a gallery now up to 70 photographs. I just added more from the Carter Boyhood Farm, taken March 4th, 2021. Enjoy!
Gerald and I spent a lovely Sunday afternoon wandering around downtown Macon, resulting in an updated gallery. Take a look.
Note: the gallery is arranged chronologically, with the oldest photographs at the top.
As mentioned yesterday, Gerald purchased a Voigtlander Ultron 21mm f1.8 — a very nice, German-owned (Japanese-made), manual-focus lens — last month, and he was kind enough to loan it to me for a couple of days.
We — that is, the lens and I — went for a short photostroll in downtown Macon this afternoon. Check the results in the updated gallery.
Edit, 6 March, 2021: I’ve rejigged the Macon galleries, and the featured photograph from this post is now in the Macon – Miscellaneous gallery (as the Catholic church is up the hill from downtown).
My good friend Prof. Gerald Lucas has been collecting lenses again, and since we both shoot with Leica L-mount cameras, we’re able to share — and he was kind enough to do precisely that. (Thank you, sir!). He’s added classics like the Asahi Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.8, Olympus Zuiko 28mm f/2.8, and Юпитер-8 (Jupiter-8) 2/50. (He’s added a brand-new Voightlander Ultron 21mm f1.8, as well — nice.)
Rose Hill and Riverside serve as familiar ground for us, meaning that when new photographic tools are available, we go there to see how well we work together; the gallery is twelve years old. See the update here. Enjoy.
This list is simple and straightforward: these aren’t necessarily all of the best book covers of 2020, only my favorites — gathered from the combined lists of LitHub, Creative Review, NPR’s 2020 Book Concierge, and the Casual Optimist, along with sightings in the New York Times Book Review, BookRiot, and Spine Magazine. Interestingly, despite the year many of us would rather forget, the best book covers are, as usual, memorable.
My favorite, by quite a lot:
There’s no other way to put this: it’s brilliant. The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell; design by Stephanie Ross. Read about how it was put together, along with initial ideas and drafts, at Spine Magazine. Great, great stuff!
The rest, in alphabetical order:
On the one hand, exactly what you’d expect — except a) it’s a novel, and b) it’s not really what you’d expect. Nice. Design by David High.
The left and right halves here are a perfect union, and I’m a sucker for hand lettering. Design by Anna Morrison.
I can’t remember the last time I saw a two-color cover I liked so much — major kudos here. Design by Emile Mahon.
Blue tigers. Red eyes. Crooked title block. Yet somehow rich beyond easy description. (The author calls it “haunted by place.”) Design by Grace Han.
Can’t. Unsee. The. Rat. Home run of horror. Design by Wil Staehle.
Simple type that’s well executed meets brilliant original painting. Proof that less can be more, if you’ll pardon the cliché. Design by Stephen Brayda.
One of this year’s best uses of color, along with another great illustration. Design by Adalis Martinez.
This design has gotten a good deal of attention — and deservedly so. Eye-catching by fives. Design by Jamie Keenan.
Explosive. (Sorry.) Actually, I’m personally jealous of this one: it feels like one I would have done, given the sudden (and unlikely) moment of creative greatness. Design by Christine Foltzer.
The hand work on this one — both illustration and lettering — just make it. A universe of goodness. Design by Sara Wood.
Scary good. Well, just scary, really, especially for a resident of the South. Excellent design by Henry Sene Yee.
Retro style and simple typography combine to make something excellent. Suppose a cover, with design by Katy Homans.
When has one color print been more compelling? This book would stand out on any bookshelf. Imagination by Jack Smyth.
The original artwork (by Kai McCall) really grabs your attention … and then hangs on, staring straight at you. Wonderful. Design by Stephen Brayda.
Here, the simple background illustration is enormously enhanced by the choice of colors, the “heart” cutout, and typography choices. A case of 10 + 10 + 10 = 1000. Design by Lauren Peters-Collaer.
Deceptive at first glance, the colors here keep adding up (to build on a theme). Another excellent example of hand-lettering adding so much, too. Another great design by Lauren Peters-Collaer.
Unexpected choices lead to great new places here, especially with the yellow band overlaying the wolf. So, so good. Design by Rachel Willey.
No speculation here: this one takes me by storm. (Sorry.) “We are not ready nor worthy” applies to the cover, as well! Design by John Gall.
Like Weather, Zo uses illustrations to huge effect — but this time with a huge typography effect to go along with it, and lo, it works. Great design choices by Janet Hansen.
Now, let’s all survive 2021 so we can do this again!
December photostroll, part 2! Once again, Prof. Gerald Lucas and I were out testing new camera gear. Check out the updated Riverside Cemetery gallery and the Macon Downtown gallery, both updated today. Thanks for looking.
My good friend Prof. Gerald Lucas, his friend Ernest, and I wandered around ye ol’ stomping ground: Rose Hill Cemetery, here in Macon, testing out new camera gear. See the updated gallery.
Joe Biden’s Branding Was Both Traditional and Trippy, and It Looks Like the Future of Politics
AIGA’s Eye on Design takes a look at the beginnings and evolution of Joe Biden’s campaign branding. Great read.
Enjoyed a photostroll in Greenville, South Carolina, with good friend Prof. Gerald Lucas. See the updated gallery here.