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After a long slog of multiple rounds of reprocessing images, Derby Daze: Volume 1 Second Edition is finally done, and live.

These images brought a darker, warmer tone to the environments, informed by the reworking of Fish Noir, while maintaining the neon punch of the skaters.

There’s also been a small change in the aspect ratio of the book; a wider, shorter page that’s more in keeping with the dimensions of the images themselves. In addition, the presentation of metadata about each image has been redesigned.

A new, updated release of Derby Daze [squareformat] is available. This isn’t just an errata update, but a complete reprocessing of all the original images.

With over a decade since the last book was published, this editing round represented a fresh eye to the aesthetics of the works, and had them go through a completely different image processing workflow, using Capture One.

Colours have been shifted to a stronger overall gold tone, and there has been a subtle cull of images from the original edition.

This was a bit of a sleeper we switched to working upon while Day And Night is in progress, but this is our newest eBook Release; Fish Noir.

It’s a collection of urban landscape (seascape?) photography from Mosman Bay in Sydney, originally shot in 2013. These images have been worked on several times since then, but we finally felt like they were ready to be offered in this format, to be considered as pairs of colour, and black & white versions.

As always, it’s available from our store directly, in DRM-free, standard Fixed-Layout EPUB format.

Our current project, a book of photography from Matt Godden’s 2019 Japan trip. The text is still a work in progress, but the imagery and book layout is complete. We expect it to be ready in the next couple of months.

Today we removed all our books from sale on the Apple Books Store. From here on, sales will only be through our own Fastspring storefront. The why of it, is best understood from previous posts here, suffice to say selling on Apple’s store is a net-negative for us, so after 11 years, we’re done.

Updates will not be made for Apple Store versions.

Anyone who owns an Apple Books version can get in contact with us, and upon confirmation of their purchase from Apple, we’ll provide a complimentary crossgrade to the Golgotha Graphics Fastspring version.

After some twelve months of rebuilding publishing workflows, we’re happy to announce an update to Surfing The Deathline. This revision, though subtle, represents a milestone in the long-term serviceability and survival of the work from an archival perspective.

Actual changes:

• Thought bubbles have been redesigned to have a noise pattern edge dither, rather than a smooth gradient. This was to solve an optical illusion / screen rendering artefact where the main white body of the thought bubble appeared to be less bright than the edge of the gradient crossing into it.
• Sound effects have been modified in some places to have larger fonts, consistent colour throughout scenes, and less size variance.
• Correction of a visual glitch caused by CMYK and RGB black having a different tone when the same degree of transparency effects are applied.

These updates have been applied to both the Apple Books versions, and the Golgotha Graphics Direct Editions.

Apple Books versions should show up as available updates within the application. Golgotha Graphics Direct Editions should be available with the original download link received when purchasing the books.

We expect this to be the final set of updates to the work, as it is by any reasonable grounds “complete”, and we’ve exhausted our errata searching. In the next couple of months we will probably discontinue our presence on Apple Books, as we consider it a deprecated platform.

• Surfing The Deathline – Full Course
• Surfing The Deathline – First Dose
• Surfing The Deathline – Second Dose
• Surfing The Deathline – Third Dose
• Surfing The Deathline – Fourth Dose
• Surfing The Deathline – Fifth Dose