This is a new CD by Gregory Bratton to be released soon, and it's a good one. That CD art is a picture that I shot from Corridor H, near the top of Branch Mountain last winter. I processed the photo with Corel Painter and a Wacom Tablet to get it to glow like I wanted. This was taken with a high-end Sony point-and-shoot rather than my Canon 40D DSLR. The original photo is located here: Valley of Fire in West Virginia. You can hear the CD here for free: Gregory Bratton Web Site
This picture is the one that Red Hen Press is going to use for the cover art for Irene McKinney's new book of poetry, "Unthinkable: Selected Poetry by Irene McKinney." The book is due for release on February 15, 2009:
More on West Virginia Poet Laureate Irene McKinney in this video:
So, how did I get together with these folks? How was my work chosen? Did I solicit this work? No, fate and Flickr had more to do with it.
From Greg's Web site:
I knew I wanted something that looked like a timeless farm. I also knew I wanted something with hills and mountains in it. I simply did a google search and found Dixon Marshall's Flickr Page.
It had the exact flavor of what I was looking for. When I saw the photo I knew right away it was the one. After a couple emails the guy was incredibly nice and gave me permission to use this photo and another one for the back.
After I fell in love with his work I found out he was also a West Virginian! So, I figured I had some cover art that tied in to at least two songs on the album! Can't ask for better than that. Check out his stuff, it's pretty cool!
From Red Hen Press:
Most authors come to us with an image in mind. If that images doesn't seem to work or they don't have an image in mind we start hunting for an image. Because of our budgetary constraints, places like flickr.com are often a good place for us to start. Irene had said she wasn't sure what exactly she wanted for an image but that she wanted her book to look like a companion piece to an earlier collection http://www.amazon.com/Vivid-Companion-Poems-Irene-McKinney/dp/0937058920/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222723880&sr=8-1. With that in mind, we did a search for West Virginia images and found yours!
Most of my more recent photographs are located here: My Flickr Site
