http://f-elevenbooks.com/

f-elevenbooks.com/ is going to be the home base for f-eleven publications and blog as well as some informational links as to the charities benefiting from our various group efforts. The website looks great and was thrown together quickly and masterfully by Brooks Ayola, a wonderful commercial photographer working out of the San Fernando Valley (the very same SFV that I grew up in. Of course when I was growing up in The Valley, as it's commonly referred to, it was still mainly strawberry fields, corn fields, horse ranches, some orange groves and the like. It was a cornucopia then, now it's know as pornacopia...but I digress).

This page is where all the photographers who participated in volume one are listed with some additional bio material on each person. It's always fascinating to me to read how differently people relate to photography and how and why they use their cameras the way that they do. Same tool, so many different POVs. Anyways, check out that page and see some of the interesting photographers in f-eleven, the book, which can be found (with a full preview!) here.

f-11, A Classic and Contemporary Photography Collection

f-11 or f-eleven is a private, invitation only photography group I belong to. Recently we published a book, the proceeds of which are being donated to charity. I have a nice spread in the volume (which I'll show and tell later) but am most proud to be part of a collective who is capable of producing such a nice, diverse selection of work.

A good part of the success of the volume, besides the quality work by the photographers, was the keen editing and design by WOLF189.

To view the full preview of the book go to:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1109957

There are:

Over 260 images
20 photographers
160 pages (premium paper)
8" x 10" (landscape style)

featuring the following photographers:

Brooks Ayola ( Polaroid nude portraits )
Ralph Barker ( fine art landscape + still life )
Kincaid Blackwood ( erotic portraits )
Mariah Carle ( fashion + portrait )
Matthew Cherry ( fine art night photography )
Nicole Jaja ( travel + candid portraits )
Leo Lam ( editorial fashion )
Dave Levingston ( fine art nude in nature )
Brooke Lynne ( experimental nude )
Darryl Martin ( fine art thematic portraits )
Ken Mierzwa ( documentary punk rock portraits )
D. Brian Nelson ( personal work )
Trish Noble ( erotic portraits )
Keith Allen Phillips ( fine art fetish portraits )
Collin J. Rae ( fetish + erotic portraits )
Sarah Robertson ( personal work )
Dave Rudin ( fine art nude + travel )
Susan Michele Smith ( fetish+erotic portraits )
Kim Melia von Seidl ( candid portraits+erotic portraits )
Wolf189 ( editorial fashion + erotic portraits )