Mid-November Update: as Thanksgiving and the Holidays beyond loom, it seemed an appropriate time to update this post.

In September I began a partnership with Frank Saladis, a renowned project management trainer who lectures and presents classes around the world, has authored/co-authored several books, and happens to be one of my wife's brothers-in-law. This partnership has the promise of being long and rewarding with many different projects potentially possible. Most immediately, we collaborated on a 10" x 8" book that pairs project management aphorisms with appropriate photographs I have taken. Called Project Leadership With a View, for me this book was a nice synthesis between my experience as an IT project manager working on international implementations and my skills and proclivities as a landscape and travel photographer. I also performed the design and pre-press lay-out of the book. This book is available at the Clayhaus Blurb store. As well, Frank will be marketing this book directly to the vast pool of project management experts and colleagues that he works with on a daily basis.

An ancillary and timely project we have further collaborated on is a companion calendar to the above book. Also called Project Leadership With a View - 2010 Calendar, this 11" x 17" calendar is an ideal and relatively inexpensive Holiday Season gift that can be ordered directly from Lulu.com.

Calendars are a usual design and production staple of Clayhaus.net's Holiday Season. In the past, I have produced the various calendars I create using my own printers. Last year -- due to demand -- I found myself spending vast amounts of time dealing with printing and printer issues: Epson printers are great for creating photographs and small card runs, but are not designed for heavy production! As a consequence, this year I began looking for online production sources. I also wanted the ability for people to order directly from a web storefront. I began looking at two different publishers and consequently have created shops on both sites, with different products being featured. Ideally, of course, it might be wise to just settle on one vendor but for now I want to test the capabilities of both. So, currently, you will find 12 Months of Slovenia on OneTank of Petrol calendar on my CafePress Shop while on the Clayhaus.net storefront on Lulu.com you will find the aforementioned Project Leadership With a View Calendar, a super-large (13" x 19") wall calendar featuring color landscape photographs of southern Utah deserts (including Arches, Canyonlands, and Capitol Reef national Parks), and a smaller (11" x 17") version of this calendar printed on less-expensive paper.

Other projects in progress that will also be featured in one of the online publishing sites include a possible infrared (converted to B&W) photography of Utah's West Desert calendar which would work as a companion piece to my previously published book, In a Different Light, and a notebook that would function as a working adjunct to the Project Leadership With a View book.

Keeping busy, staying creative!