My second take on a self-published book. The first one was private, but this one is for the whole world to see.

This book was made to capitalize a bit on the huge archive of sea trout fishing pictures that I have shot over the years.

I have been fishing and taking pictures longer than I care to admit.

I do sell pictures to magazines and use a lot of the images on the web site The Global FlyFisher, which I created and maintain together with fly fishing friends and with the aide and material from a lot of contributors.

The site has been soooo much fun to run during the last 15 years, but has also cost us a lot of money. Web traffic and server space is not free.
So this book is supposed to make a little money and maybe cover just a bit of these past and future expenses.

I never delete a picture, which I shot with any of my cameras.

Really... never!

Opposite most photographers I save every missed shot, every test, every blurred smudge and every completely psychedelic exposure. And honestly, quite a few good shots come from that!

So I have decided to collect a bunch of these misses from my photo archive and make them into this odd little book.

I have used the online service Blurb, where you can download the program Booksmart—an application that runs on your own computer—and produce books locally.

The software is easy to use, albeit not as powerful as the stand alone Desktop Publishing systems such as Indesign, which I have used quite a bit during my career. But it works, and sets only a few limits on your creativity.

You can produce PDF's and use them in stead. I am currently looking into the open source program Scribus to see whether it will work for doing books on Blurb. But for now Booksmart will make do.