I arranged this combination of objects. The reggae king along with my book. Quite an honor. The first image has a wider aperture and the background is blurrier than the second. I was experimenting to see how much of the subject would be in focus in return for the background being blurry. 
My friend Mike Toth is a great woodturner, and he was very charming in his support for THE ART OF HUMMINGBIRD GARDENING, wanting to have his photo taken with me. Our friend, artist Alain Andre Moreau, took the photo with Mike’s iPhone. Then Mike took a photo of me. It was fun, can’t you tell?
Two different crops.
Nice to see a fellow artist appreciating your work, isn’t it? Alain was checking out the book for the first time. Later, he agreed to pose with the book. 
I’m trying to get a few photographs of these new books for my publisher. I hope you enjoy them.
I really like this image, just to show more of the environment and not crop it too close. 
