I’ve just signed up for SoFoBoMo — “Solo Photo Book Month” — which invites photographers to photograph and produce a book of photography in one month. Starting now (well, almost).

It’s a great idea. You have 31 days in which to shoot the photos, design the book, create a PDF and upload it to the SoFoBoMo.org website. You can pick the month, so long as it begins after June 1 and ends before July 31. The book must contain at least 35 photographs.

Nothing like a little cheap inspiration to get yourself going.

My book will be 4 Plays/3 Days: Reviewing the Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2010, which I describe as

A newspaper theater critic (one of the last of a breed) spends four frantic days covering the summer openings at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore., where “Twelfth Night,” “Henry IV, Part One” and “Merchant of Venice” (directed by Bill Rauch, the festival’s hot new artistic director) are opening on the outdoor stage. Ashland, a rural town in Southern Oregon, has one of the best regional theaters in the country.

Reviewing the plays is exhilarating, engaging and exhausting for the critics, who come from newspapers and websites around the West Coast to cover the openings.

I head down to Ashland June 11 to watch the plays, write reviews — and take a lot of photographs. The completed book is due July 11.

photo: My desk at the Plaza in Ashland during the February winter openings, 2010