Wow, JohnINKS, thank you for your tiem and knowledge. All interesting and salient points. Jon, no problem, I find it interesting, all of it.

Lin, thank you, too. I really appreciate your input.

I had a few photos of my own which I thought I'd use. A lot of the book(let) has essays on Nature and I've got some beautiful shots to go with them, specifically. I could do gray/greyscale, easily, but so much of what I describe involves colour. I had planned on producing this using a good program I have for brochures/greeting cards, etc. but it doesn't do well with multiple pages and is a lightweight "fluff" program, though fun. Ultimately, I'd like to send it to a few publishers and see if I can get it sold. My thinking was to show them as finished a product as possible...maybe I need to give them more benefit of the doubt and let their imaginations suggest what would look best?

This is really helpful in my figuring out exactly what I want from all of this. Thanks, everyone!

kat