SOFOBOMO 2012 - Solo Photo Book Month

07/22/2012 07:52:03 AM · #1

This project had quite a lot of participants from DPC over the last 4 years, but at the end of last year, the team who had been hosting it and supporting the concept ran out of funding and shut the servers off.

For reference in case anybody is interested in seeing some of the history behind this idea I have linked the last 4 years threads.

Original SOFOBOMO Thread 2008
SOFOBOMO 2009
SOFOBOMO 2010
SOFOBOMO 2011

I happened to check a flickr group I belong to and notice today that somebody else has taken the initiative to revive the project and host it on his own server. Now, the fuzzy month started already at the beginning of July, so it's a bit late to kick it off, but I thought I'd share in case anybody is interested. I know

skip,

hajeka,

vlado and several other DPC users were involved over the years.

Anyone interested? It doesn't look like this is gaining much traction right now....

SOFOBOMO 2012

07/22/2012 08:00:00 AM · #2

Thanks for posting. Nice to see it's continuing. It's late indeed, but there are still a few days left to think about it.

Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM

07/22/2012 08:04:08 AM · #3

Yes, the fuzzy month ends at the end of August, so still time.

Skip

Canon EOS-1D X

07/22/2012 09:01:42 AM · #4

Yippee!!! Thanks so much for the heads up, Sar I am all in! I'm on my phone, but will get registered as soon as I get home.

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

07/23/2012 04:57:08 AM · #5

Sent a pm to a few other users who have done this before :)

My fuzzy month will be 1st August - 31st August. Title of book escapes me at the moment, but the project will be "shallow depth of field". Meaning really I use only the 50/1.4 or 85/1.4. Let's see how I get on.

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

07/23/2012 08:41:18 AM · #6

Still thinking about it. I could do another fireworks book... <"Â¤">

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

07/23/2012 01:24:06 PM · #7

No complete plan yet, but I want to make outside photos this time and going to limit myself to the road to my work. (With a radius of 1 mile around that road). Driving there daily (on my bike), rushing to get to work or to home, always a pause on the ferry, but perhaps this is way to stop more often :)

The road is from Zaandam to Amsterdam (a 9 km ride). So the end result can be flowers, animals, macros, art, architecture, industry, transport, landscape or a mix of them all. No idea about the title yet.

My fuzzy month will be from Jul 26th until Aug 26th.

Henk

Maggye

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

07/23/2012 01:52:50 PM · #8

thanks for the info.

Covert_Oddity

Nikon D700

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

07/23/2012 03:54:12 PM · #9

I've promised to do this twice now and never made it :-(

If someone can go to the effort to revive the project, I can definitely go to the effort to complete mine, count me in!

I will also aim for the month of August.

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM

07/23/2012 04:28:24 PM · #10

Originally posted by Covert_Oddity:

Looking forward to see your book. I'm sure you can make it this time.

vlado

Canon EOS-70D

07/23/2012 06:03:30 PM · #11

I did the 2009 & 2010 sofobomo and thoroughly enjoyed it. Will get of my arse and do it again this year... had the photos last year, but lacked the time and motivation to put them together into a book... but this year will be different... I hope. :)

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

08/24/2012 05:13:24 PM · #12

It was a month with some handicaps, but I just finished my book :)

It's on issuu (nice for viewing) and blurb (nice for printing).

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

08/24/2012 06:54:18 PM · #13

For some reason I didn't see this until today ... :-(

I'd gotten an earlier email/PM assessing interest -- I guess I thought there'd be another email when it got going.

08/24/2012 10:37:18 PM · #14

Originally posted by GeneralE:

For some reason I didn't see this until today ... :-(

I'd gotten an earlier email/PM assessing interest -- I guess I thought there'd be another email when it got going.

I did put a link to this thread in the original pm.

08/24/2012 10:39:08 PM · #15

Originally posted by hajeka:

It was a month with some handicaps, but I just finished my book :)

It's on issuu (nice for viewing) and blurb (nice for printing).

Well done! I don't know if I'll make it in time. I have had visitors for the last 4 weeks and have had no free time, but I still have a few days

08/30/2012 05:26:51 PM · #16

Received the printed version today. I like it!