There's something about real books, apart from not needing batteries to read them. The texture of the paper, the smell, the whole experience is something that can't be replicated on an iPad. So when we travel to stately homes I can't resist the second hand bookshops and I definitely can't resist the ancient tomes in the lbraries of houses great and small. I would just love to spend a day or two just reading the books in these stately homes, and I think it's a great pity that many of them will never be used for the function they were intended. OK, some will be heavy going, some quite inpenetrable, but it's still worth exploring what lies within the leather bindings.
Photography of the books in stately homes needs a bit of thought. Reflections have to be controlled, camera shake needs to be avoided and apertures need to be set to make sure there is enough depth of field. Very often I will use really high ISO values, and fortunately my cameras do deliver remarkably low levels of noise. I've processed a few from scratch so here's a selection of pictures of books:
One of those shots is from my own bookcases. I think it's pretty obvious which one.....
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