World According To Bob

By Bob Campbell

Ever get pigeonholed and forever be labeled as a one-trick pony? This is my chance to bend the mold a little and share a few moments of mundane as we share the world as I see it. Where it's easy to see a weed and discarded chunk of Chevy or grumble and roll over, pulling the blankets over your head trying to ignore the excitement that is sunrise - because, "Uh, gosh, you do realize the sun comes up practically every day somewhere, right? Now shut the door and let me go back to sleep." - I see something different. And you're in luck. I carry a camera with me practically everywhere. So grab a copy of this book - it's the right price for grabbing - and let's get experience Bob's World for a few moments. (Warning: unlike Not Another Travel Guide and Long - Long - Short . Long - train series of books, this time I get to pretend to be an artist and tweak the images just a little... just because you're Princess Leia, it doesn't mean you can't enjoy being a comedian now and then.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Campbell
• Release date: May 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463183168

Bob Campbell

The short of it: over-educated, unemployed, and annoying with a camera. Quite possibly a dangerous combination.The long of it:I've been snapping pictures for over a quarter-of-a-century on equipment ranging from a Pentax k1000 to Canon SX700hs - but nothing fancier. In fact, after they retired my Kodachrome 64 film, I hung up the 'real cameras' and settled for "digital pocket snappers." It seems ninety percent of the challenge to taking pictures is to remember your camera (would seem obvious, wouldn't it? But look around at the folks with large, fancy cameras - no wonder they claim the phone-based lens will be the death of real photography). So I do my part and pack it almost everywhere.I was a latecomer to photography, though, so I had time to grow up in many different parts of the country with my formative stage in the South, but junior high and onward in the Pacific Northwest. The last set of initials after my name tacked on by the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine - making the 'highest degree attained' line of the survey read Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.I still live in the state of Washington with my lovely wife of over two decades who continues to be an invaluable accomplice. For any hazard I manage to avoid, our son does his best to ensure we'll see an early grave.Having spent a little time teaching, I've grown to miss a captive audience to inflict my photography upon, so thank you Smashwords for providing me a forum for dispersing my imagery pain to be loosed upon the world.

Book preview

Introduction

Does anybody actually read introductions anymore? Well, except me - then most of the time I vow never to do it again. And I read a lot. So that's a lot of vows. (Semi-West Texas sunrise, June 29, 2016)

Thus, short and sweet: welcome to my world. (Vancouver, Washington, November 9, 2015)

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The (extra)Ordinary World Around Us

Not to belabor a point, but I'm going to - so go ahead, feel free to skip ahead to the next section. (On assignment while shooting a private label book in Kennewick, Washington October 22, 2016 - and proving you're never too busy to stop and see. The only difference between myself and many others is I'm ignorant (and annoying) enough to stop, see, and point a camera.)

Folks can live in a world and never look at what's immediately around them. (A typical sunrise from the front porch of the in-laws in Eastern Washington, October 23, 2015.)

Which is why it can be so much fun to snap pictures of the always there and shock others (possibly in both senses of the word: a pleasant shock of surprise and the unpleasant 110 volt bare wire event, depending on whether you're the parents-in-law or parents-in-genetics being forced to look at my photography), permitting them to see what's really there. (A couple blocks up from that same porch noted above, Connell, Washington, October 24, 2015.)

A world of discovery awaits almost every step. (Nearly the same location as the image directly above, although shot a few hours after the sunrise two clicks up, October 23, 2015, Connell, Washington.)

So the next time you think you're in a hurry, try to pause and really look around. And if you can't? Well, that's a good time to remember there's help available... because that's what Not Another Travel Guide is partially about: giving folks the chance to see what's really there. (A few minutes early to Sunday evening services leaves time to play with trains (the Long- Long- Short. Long- train series of books) and pause for a snapshot of sunset in Vancouver, Washington, December 2016.)

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Backstory to NATG & LLSL

(Not Another Travel Guide and Long- Long- Short. Long-)

Not Another Travel Guide books are collections of locations, trips, and travels designed with many uses in mind. The obvious as help with vacation planning (we don't tend to mince words on over-rated experiences and try to look beyond the obvious sales brochure luster) along with freeing vacationers of trying to see everything, we've created a collection of images useful in documenting possible trips, scenery and seen-it-arrays in handy-dandy-ebook format. Although beyond the obvious, these books are useful for the cubicle convict (stuck at work, gotta