Who takes photos of their releases? I do sometimes, when I can. I will probably do it more often as I now have a little "kid's cam" that I can tuck away and keep in my purse to use at anytime for just this sort of thing. My release pics aren't always the best quality, but I have fun doing them and I just made a photobucket album of them! :lol:

Jessica's Book Release Photos







Does anyone else here do this sort of thing?

Wow, how fun! I watched the whole thing as a slideshow.

I am far too lazy to do that though. I am the laziest photo person around. lol

I've taken some in the past, but haven't recently. I really should. It is much more fun and encourages me to have more creative releases!

Your pics are very fun, JessicaEby!

I've done a release pic here and there in the past. So rarely do I wild release these days...and don't really want to carry my camera with me all the time. My phone takes crap pics.

Very cool... !!

Very Cool indeed! I have taken 1 picture of a book I released at Lake Louise

That's cool! I should do that!. :wink:

I sometimes take photos if I'm doing a release challenge, but they're never very exciting!

Very nice Jessica :)

Wow! What fun pictures! I've never taken pictures of a release before, but I might have to start. Great idea JessicaEby!

thanks guys... if any of you have/take release photos, feel free to post links if you're so inclined... ;-)

Ooo, thanks for this thread! I tried writing a bookcrossing article urging people to take pictures of their wild releases, but that was over 6 months ago and I've never heard anything. I guess they didn't like it. :cry:

And I've gotten out of the habit of it recently. But here are five I liked:

on a harbour park bench
under the railroad tracks
amongst the Coca-Cola bottles
at the top of a lookout tower
and this one, which wasn't such a great photo, but inspired the finder to add a picture too!

I looked at yours and I love the shadow on the Kidnapped one! And propping up on the gumball machine looks appealing - I'd take that book! :lol:

Thanks for the comments, and thanks for sharing your pics, Potok! I enjoyed them very much :) Someone journaled one of the books that was left on the vending machines, but I haven't heard from the other one yet.

I added 3 new pics to my little album. The book is quite hard to see in one of them, but it's there! One is Treasure Island on a chair at Mr. Sub with some entry forms for an island getaway contest going on in the restaurant, one is Wee Willie Winkie on a baby changing station in the women's washroom of a restaurant, and one (the one in which the book is hard to see) is The Wind in the Willows on the condiment/newspaper counter at an A&W Restaurant. I just :wub: wild releases and their photos.

Is anyone having trouble uploading their pics to BC? I took one on Tuesday (it might be my favourite so far, I can't decide, but it's in the CN Tower observation deck, so you can see the book and some of the view from 1136 feet up!) and I put it in my photobucket album but I can't get it into the book's journal!

What a great idea. I stopped doing wild releases when none of them got journalized but you just inspired me to start again, with my camera in toe.

Your pictures are great!

Ok... here's mine...

Post office release

This one is COOL! Its a release pic that skyring put on it, so i had to post it on my blog.. here
Breeni did this pic of one of my books

These were my first pic releases:
The Notebook
Goodnights Kiss
Sun Kissed
Suduku

I transferred my release photos (as well as any new ones... I'm not sure when I last added some!) to flickr, and now the photos have info about whether the book's been caught etc, as well as links to their journals!

Jessica's Wild Releases Set

That is cool, NMZ... do you know why it's "The Pirate House?"

Jessica,
That's cool! maybe we can start a group on flickr for release photos!
I never did take pictures until I went to the Charleston convention and saw all the great pics Nou, Turtle and the others took.

Here's my favorite one for
Sisterhood of Traveling Pants left at The Great Wall of China:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5108371

The Sixpenny Debt And Other Oxford Stories
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4777538
(kind of themed as it was released in a university)

I hope so much these books got journaled I will hop over to site watch to post it, it would so make my day!

Wow, you released a book at the Great Wall of China! How cool is that?

(awestruck smilie goes here)