While most of my reading is done electronically, I still love to buy hard copies of photography books. Being able to flip through them for escape or inspiration is something I’ve always loved to do. Looking at photographs digitally is never the same as looking at them printed. Putting together a photography book is a unique challenge. When my friends Richard , Roxanne , and Geoff put together theirs, I loved hearing about the process, and their knowledge was beneficial. While I first hated the notion of needing a theme to pull the book together, I realized that there is a reason this is how most photobooks are done. Looking through my shelves of books, each of them has a theme of some sort, even if it is something as simple as a date range. After my initial attempt in 2020 to pull together some of my favorite photos with the stories behind them was a failure, I promised myself that I would dig in and make a book happen this winter break.…