Creating a Cover

Covers fascinate me, so I thought I would share the story of how Stay the Distance received its own shiny cover. I had always intended it to be a DIY project. The image was one of my own, pulled from thousands taken at Saratoga Springs during the last racing meet.

Before

Here’s the cover as the original photo. It was taken too early in the morning at the Oklahoma training track, where dozens of horses were jogging and breezing while I aimed a DSLR at them and sucked down a huge cup of black...