I am going to have one of my pictures published in a travel guidebook...Yes...Marcy's 15 minutes of fame may have arrived...ok, so the picture may be burried in the pages of an enormous guidebook...but it's still MY PICTURE!
So, the story goes like this...
A couple weeks ago I was browsing the Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door (ETBD)website, no big surprise there! When I saw a post that interested me. They were looking for some photos for the 2008 guidebooks. There was a list of maybe 15 or 20 different travel topics. I perused the list and towards the bottom there was a topic that was perfect for me...Solo Women Travelers...I thought...Hey! That's me!
Then I went through my photos of the last few trips I had taken and thought to myself I really need to find a picture of me doing "something" instead of just standing in front of a monument! :)
Lo and behold I got to my pictures from my trip to Ireland in 2005. And I had gone biking while in Inish Mor, one of the Aran Islands off the coast of Ireland. There I was standing next to my bicycle with the low stone fences in the pasture behind me, with my bicycle helmet and sunglasses on grinning from ear to ear...well, why am I describing it when I can post the picutre! Here it is...
Then yesterday to my utter astonishment I got an email from ETBD telling me they had selected my picture for the 2008 Europe Through the Back Door guidebook for the Special Concerns chapter! My name won't be next to the picture on the page, but it will be in the back of the book with the page number the picture appears on! And after they receive the books from the publisher I will get an autographed copy!
I am more then THRILLED about this! And the Europe Through the Back Door guidebook is what I like to call the "holy grail" of the Rick Steves' guidebooks....it's got everything in it!
Who knows...this could be the start of a new "adventure"...travel photographer! :)
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