Seeing your pictures in book form is a thrill…a thrill to put together, a thrill to look at and a thrill to share with others. Digital photography - combined with digital printing - makes it easy for anyone to create a photo book.

How do you choose a subject? Actually, you don’t really need a subject; your book can simply be a portfolio of your favorite pictures (in effect, your vision is the subject). But for me, the greatest satisfaction comes from exploring a subject I am passionate about.

With the sole exception of a project where a client hired me to take pictures of a subject that did not interest me, every one of my books started with a passion. I don’t decide to do a book and then choose the subject. I take pictures of favorite subjects with no specific objective in mind…and then it hits me that I am on my way to creating a book.

That’s the genesis of my latest project — Flush! (a “Bathroom Book About Bathrooms”). “Pink Restroom” was taken in 1986, on a photo expedition with my friend Nick Foster at South of the Border in South Carolina, a campy tourist trap and the kind of place only kids and photographers could adore. Since that time, I’ve continued to shoot bathroom-related pictures. Just this year the notion of creating a book on this subject hit me. Now, as to why bathrooms are a (photographic) passion, and how that passion will be expressed, stay tuned….