What a day it’s been today!

It all started a little while ago when I received an email from someone who worked at the Liverpool Daily Post newspaper telling me about a book of images they were publishing as a review of Liverpool’s year as Europe’s Capital of Culture.  It was to be a sort of year in review guide and was to feature a selection of photographs from staff photographers and those who submitted their images to the Liverpool Daily Post’s Captail of Culture 2008 Flickr group.

Since I’d been submitting some of my Flickr images to their group, I was happy to take part in the book.  There was no mention of getting paid for the use of images, but for something like this I would value taking part more.

The next thing I know, the book’s on sale at Amazon and then I get an email asking for my address so that they could send me my free copy.  This meant that they’d used at least one of my shots!

Today, the book arrived and, to my surprise, upon opening the packaging I found that not only had the cover changed from what was shown on Amazon, but they’d put two of my images onto it!

To say I was pleased is an understatement!  But then that wasn’t the end of it as opening the book onto pages 4 & 5, the first double page spread, I was presented with a pair of my panoramic Liverpool waterfront images.

Here are my shots that got into the book:

For anyone interested in getting prints, please visit my RedBubble mini-site.

Oh yeah, I also got my Canon EOS 5D today, but more on that at a later date…

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