Photos for The Confidential Guide - Great Britain and Ireland

[Tom_Doak]

First off, many thanks to those who responded to my request a couple of months ago for pictures of Scottish courses.  It's taken me a bit longer than anticipated to sort through them all and to figure out what pictures I would need, but I have finally done so, and the pics I intend to use are as follows:

Castle Stuart 11th hole, by Tom Dunne
Gullane 17th hole, by Ed Brzezowski
Lundin Links 1st hole, by Kyle Henderson
Shiskine 4th hole, by Frank Pont
Western Gailes 6th, Stewart Abramson

The deal is, one free book for each photograph used in the book.  Someday soon, I should have a release to send to you regarding use of your photos.

Now that I've got my own slides sorted through and scanned for use, and have most of the text laid out, I've identified the other courses I'd like to feature if I can find a good photograph to use.  If anyone has good photos of the courses below for consideration, please email your photos to my email account for the book, which is confguidegolf@gmail.com .  We are unlikely to publish more than one photo per course, so there's no need to send a dozen -- just the best you've got.

The courses I'm looking for are as follows.  Even if I had good pictures of all of them, I will probably only feature 1/2 to 2/3 of them, but the better the pictures the more likely I will use them.  Here's where I'm short (*'s indicate the courses where I don't have anything I like at all, the others I've got something good but would still consider swapping):

Askernish [esp. 12th hole]
Ballybunion
*Bamburgh Castle
The Berkshire
Carne
*Carnoustie
Cavendish
Connemara
*Cork
Crail
Cruden Bay
The European Club
*Ganton
*The Island
*The Machrie
Machrihanish
*Narin & Portnoo
Nefyn & District
Painswick
Portstewart
Royal Aberdeen
Royal Cinque Ports
Royal County Down (Annesley Links)
Royal Porthcawl
*Royal St. George's
St. Andrews Ladies Putting Green
*Saunton (East) - esp. 5th hole
*Silloth
West Hill


I'm home for most of February and promise I will make my decisions by the end of this month.  Thanks to everyone for their interest in the project.

[Ed Brzezowski]

Damn.   I am as giddy as a school girl. I will dig into the pics from last summers trip, I know I have Crail and Carnoustie pics at the office, along with RD. I know I have a lot of shots of 14 but they do have players  at a distance.

Ed

[Stewart Abramson]

Damn.   I am as giddy as a school girl.

Me too. What an exciting surprise. Thanks Mr D.

[Mark_F]

Tom,

What format do you want the images in?

[Tom_Doak]

Tom,

What format do you want the images in?

Mark:

It's fine to send them in compressed jpeg format or however else you want to send them; just let me know in the email if the file sizes are larger, so I don't rule out a photo because it isn't clear enough.

[Marty Bonnar]

Tom,
Just out of interest, did you manage to access my photobucket slide shows? Just to know if that's a useful method.
Cheers,
MB.

[Lukas Michel]

Damn.   I am as giddy as a school girl. I will dig into the pics from last summers trip, I know I have Crail and Carnoustie pics at the office, along with RD. I know I have a lot of shots of 14 but they do have players  at a distance.

Ed

Ed

If you have shots with players that you are thinking of submitting, send me a direct message and I'll remove them with Photoshop.  

Lukas

[Tom_Doak]

Tom,
Just out of interest, did you manage to access my photobucket slide shows? Just to know if that's a useful method.
Cheers,
MB.

Martin:

The photobucket link works fine, in case you or anyone else wants to send some that way again.  I might yet nab one of your photos of Machrihanish Dunes if I can find a good spot for it.

[Tom_Doak]

Bumping this thread one last time.  I've updated the course list to take out courses where someone has submitted a great photo, and to highlight the ones where I don't have anything I really like yet.  Thanks to everyone who has sent their photos to look through!

[Ally Mcintosh]

Tom, away from photo stock until Monday night. Will send a few on then to see if there's anything that takes your fancy.

[Ed Brzezowski]

Bumping this thread one last time.  I've updated the course list to take out courses where someone has submitted a great photo, and to highlight the ones where I don't have anything I really like yet.  Thanks to everyone who has sent their photos to look through!

I have some from Crail but do not wish to swamp you.

[Tom_Doak]

I have some from Crail but do not wish to swamp you.

Swamped is not a problem.  I've sorted through about 150 emails and God knows how many pictures, but it's pretty quick to do so.  Getting back to everyone after the final cuts will take longer!

[Ed Brzezowski]

Ok Tom, Crail and European coming Monday.  Going to Streamsong in April , cannot wait to play your course.
Ed

[Bart Bradley]

I'm home for most of February and promise I will make my decisions by the end of this month.  Thanks to everyone for their interest in the project.

Did you get what you needed?

Bart

[Tom_Doak]

Bart:

I think I got more than I needed, but I had to change my schedule to leave for New Zealand a few days earlier than planned, so I have all the photos waiting to be placed with the text when I get home in two weeks' time.

Once I have cut and pasted the final selections I will write back to everyone who sent photos and let them know whether we're going to use one of their contributions or not.  The book is supposed to be put to bed by April 15 so it will certainly be before then.