First of all, Happy New Year to the few who actually read this blog.

I’m currently working on a book project. I’ve spent most of the past two weeks on putting a book together. It’s a photo book with the best hockey pictures I’ve taken over the past three years. It’s actually something I wanted to do about a year ago, but sort of ran out of quality photos around the 70 page mark or something and figured i’d wait. I had the World Championships in Russia in the horizon and figured I’d bring home a good load of pictures from that. To end it off I spent a weekend in Canada in December as I’ve already written about here. Plus I got some stuff from the danish league and a couple of trip to Sweden. I don’t have a deal with a publisher or anything. I plan on using the online publishing service, blurb.com.

It’s always a good thing to have a goal each year. The goal for 2007 was to shoot a prizewinning sports action photo. I’m not a trophy whore or anything, but figured it would be a good project. Plus it’s what I feel I’m really good at, so it’s sort of a measuring stick against the rest of the field. Of course it also depends on the judges …. I have submitted my photos and the verdict should be in in about a week or two from now.. I’ll update you on that.

So the first goal or project for 2008 is to finish the book and get it published.

Here’s what I came up with for the cover.