Honesty: You bet there are regrets

Regrets, specifically, came up in four different conversations tonight.

Wow.

Fine — let’s address it, head-on.

My name is Giles Hoover. In a former life, I was a book designer.

A good one, in fact: I knew Chip Kidd (ask Carey, or Google); I did covers and jackets apenty (some well-known, most not); I was on several occasions interviewed by The New York Times; my book design weblog, Foreword, had more than two million page views in 2006, the year before I quit — and was the #1 return in Google for “book design”; etc.; etc.

Then the crisis happened: I got divorced, and, well, everything changed.

Fast forward to 2008. I’d rather be known as a photographer, and have … well, hung out a shingle: Giles Hoover, Photographer.

I loved book design, truly. But, I’ve found something I love more: photography.

Am I going to make it to #1, like I did in book design? Hell, no. But I’m going to have fun trying.

Thanks for stopping by. Truly, appreciated.