More Sureal Digital Photography

I just got my copy of More Surreal Digital Photography. I had two contributions to the book, Invasion and Bear. I didn't think either of those was such a great image, but the editor of the book requested those two specific images from all my others, so I assume those appealed to him the most, so I provided the walk-throughs on how I created the images (I didn't mention how many variations I went through before I ended up with the final versions--giving a walk-through is almost like saying "I meant to do that"). One slight disappointment I have with the end product is that the publisher was supposed to provide a web site with hi-res versions of the original unmanipulated pics, so people who buy the book can download the pics and then try using the walk-throughs on their own to recreate the images. I checked the web site with the files, and they only supplied lo res pics. To me, that seems to make it a pretty useless gesture, because it's pretty tough workiing with lo-res files. But then again, it might keep someone from copying my image into a full-resolution image. I don't know if I'd really care if someone stole either of those images, but I suppose it's still a good thing. Another minor gripe is that they called me "Tony VenGraitis" on the Invasion walk-through, and "Anthony VenGraitis" on Bear. What's up with that?

Anyway, check out the book if you get a chance. It's good stuff.