Damir Besic Photographs

Frank De Vincenzo · Post by **Frank De Vincenzo** » 28 Aug 2015 6:15 am

I would love to see, and purchase, a documentary coffee table book or slick high quality calendar, post cards or stand alone beauty shots of pedal steel guitars in their intended element(i.e. music studios, grand stages, churches, honky-tonks, home music rooms) taken by none other than our forum photog at large, Mr. Damir Besic!
Come on Damir, we have all seen your work on the forum. This would be the perfect project for you with an ever changing line up of guitars at your disposal. Anyone agree? What say you?

Bobby Burns · Post by **Bobby Burns** » 28 Aug 2015 7:32 am

I agree! Not many seem to come up with more nice steels, and nobody takes better pictures of them. I've oft thought that steel makers would do themselves a huge favor if they hired Damir to take pictures for their web pages.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 28 Aug 2015 3:35 pm

agreed! beautiful photographer.
c'mon damir...devote all your time and effort
with no compensation to all of us!

Bobby Burns · Post by **Bobby Burns** » 28 Aug 2015 3:55 pm

Sad truth is if he printed a large format book with glossy pages, sold one to every one of us, he may not break even.

Frank De Vincenzo · Post by **Frank De Vincenzo** » 28 Aug 2015 5:27 pm

OK, fair enough. But what about the 84 million guitar players in the world today(current estimate). I was one of them seven months ago. You don't think six stringers are hot for pedal steels? I never played a steel, but lusted for one my whole life. Even if it turned out that one percent of those guitarists were just like me, would that be enough compensation?

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 28 Aug 2015 8:40 pm

A book would be a money loser. He should put out a calendar, make them inexpensively at Kinko's or Office Max, sell'em on the website, here and at steel shows. Suitable for framing.

Damir?

dlayne · Post by **dlayne** » 28 Aug 2015 10:34 pm

Herb has the right idea just my opinion, I know I would buy one for home and one for the office

DG Whitley · Post by **DG Whitley** » 29 Aug 2015 6:05 am

....sounds like a plan to me....

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 29 Aug 2015 4:43 pm

oh wow, I just found this... well, thank you all so much for your kind words...I talked to Chris few months back about calendar idea, but wasn't really sure how would people take that, didn't think there would be much interest...if you think that there is enough interest in me making calendar like that, I may actually try to do it...it would take some research and leg work, since I have never done anything like that before... thank you all for kind words, and maybe we will have steel guitar calendar for 2016

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 29 Aug 2015 5:14 pm

I hope you won't be posing nude with the guitars.

Bobby Burns · Post by **Bobby Burns** » 29 Aug 2015 5:26 pm

I'd buy a calendar, or a book.

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 29 Aug 2015 10:13 pm

how about this?

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 29 Aug 2015 10:13 pm

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 29 Aug 2015 10:14 pm

desk calendar

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 29 Aug 2015 10:20 pm

maybe a mouse pad?

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 30 Aug 2015 2:03 am

I like all of these, Damir, the most striking ones being those that have lots of black background, like paintings on velvet.

Along the same lines, I notice that you haven't had to resort to feminine pulchritude--you know how we like black velvet.
Beautiful steels are one of few things that are, to me, as titillating, almost pornographic, by themlselves, moreso than, say, Harleys.
Nothing quite like the Excel endplate and Carson Wells' engraving. Got more?

It's worth considering!

Chris Sattler · Post by **Chris Sattler** » 30 Aug 2015 3:14 am

Great photographs Damir.

But now for the centrefold.... a fully loaded Zum upskirt???

Bobby Burns · Post by **Bobby Burns** » 30 Aug 2015 4:47 am

The only problem I see is that we'll only get one picture of each guitar. Maybe we would need a calendar that was laid out by weeks instead of months. Then, you could have a few pictures of the months featured guitar on each weeks page. Then maybe we'd get 6 or 8 pictures of each guitar.

Chuck Blake · Post by **Chuck Blake** » 30 Aug 2015 4:50 am

I lust after Miss December, I currently own her sister...

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 30 Aug 2015 8:52 am

there is bunch of guys asking for a calendar, I ordered one calendar right now, just to see how I like it, I have to try to find a place where I can print them for a decent price... I will let you guys know as soon as I'm done with all the leg work, and logistics lol ...

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 30 Aug 2015 8:54 am

Charlie McDonald wrote:I like all of these, Damir, the most striking ones being those that have lots of black background, like paintings on velvet.

Along the same lines, I notice that you haven't had to resort to feminine pulchritude--you know how we like black velvet.
Beautiful steels are one of few things that are, to me, as titillating, almost pornographic, by themlselves, moreso than, say, Harleys.
Nothing quite like the Excel endplate and Carson Wells' engraving. Got more?

It's worth considering!

thanks Charlie, I just posted complete calendar, hope you like it

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 30 Aug 2015 8:56 am

Chris Sattler wrote:Great photographs Damir.

But now for the centerfold.... a fully loaded Zum upskirt???

thanks Chris, don't have any really good ZUM pics that I like right now, ZUM will be featured in 2017 calendar for sure

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 30 Aug 2015 8:57 am

Bobby Burns wrote:The only problem I see is that we'll only get one picture of each guitar. Maybe we would need a calendar that was laid out by weeks instead of months. Then, you could have a few pictures of the months featured guitar on each weeks page. Then maybe we'd get 6 or 8 pictures of each guitar.

thanks Bobby, thats a good idea, will work on that

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 30 Aug 2015 8:58 am

Chuck Blake wrote:I lust after Miss December, I currently own her sister...

yes, Miss December sure is a sexy one

Storm Rosson · Post by **Storm Rosson** » 30 Aug 2015 9:27 am

Great friggin Idea, both calendar and mouse pad, count me in for either and/or both...Stormy

personally I think the monthly calendar would be the way to go. As the saying goes "always leave'em wanting more"

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