Southern Exposure

Today was a bit of a wozgonna day for me - I wozgonna do all kinds of things but in the end I've done pretty much only that which needed doing. I guess there's always tomorrow.

One thing I did do a week or two ago though was to see this book advertised by New Zealand Geographic and pretty much immediately - order it :)

Southern Exposure is a book with a difference. The blurb says:

"Southern Exposure presents an original, democratic view of New Zealand. Chosen from 25,000 images shot by more than 1500 photographers over a calendar year, the images in this book represent the best of the New Zealand Geographic group on Flickr-a social media community dedicated to capturing the spirit of the nation.


The photographs were not commissioned, rather 'crowd-sourced' by enthusiastic amateurs going about their business, celebrating family life, recording the play of light upon a subject that was before them, in the own time, in their own way. The images were uploaded to 'the cloud' and voted on by friends who had never met, then ultimately rendered in a technology almost six hundred years old; printed with ink on paper."

Now who wouldn't want a copy of a book like that? Certaily not me - I just had to get my hands on a copy - and it's wonderful :)

Maybe we Kiwi blippers could do something similar?