On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > OK, following hot on the heels of Doug Brewer's "How to Milk a Wooden > Cow" comes my own venture into Blurb book land. Yes, I did the "Blue > Ridge High Country" book earlier this year, but that was thrown > together quickly for as a benefit for a non-profit. This one is much > more painstakingly crafted and done primarily for my own artistic > expression. I'm really pleased with how it's come out.
Congratulations! You did your standard excellent job. > > The book is called "Loire Valley Travels" and it consists of > photographs from my bicycle trip in France a few years ago. Based on > comments I received about the Blue Ridge book I've included quite a > bit more text to go with the photography. It's 80 pages long. 51 color > photographs and 12 B&W. Thirty bucks. Makes a great Christmas gift :) I think that you slipped with your punctuation, shouldn't that last sentence be?: Thirty bucks makes a great Christmas gift. :-) On a slightly less frivolous note, what is involved in putting together one of these books once you have the photos? The various tasks that need to be done. The length of time to do each task. Any cash up front to blurb to do one of these books. I assume that there's an economically optimal number of photos, probably similar to the number of photos in the PDML annual. I also figure that the amount of time spent getting each photo ready for publication will vary from person to person. I was clever enough this year to make a set of my best photos for each month, to make it easier for me to pick three for this years annual. Yesterday, I went through and and picked my candidates for the year so far, (in case you're interested) http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157625225151443/ There are a few people that might actually appreciate a collection of those photos as a holiday gift. I could do them as a book, or for about the same amount of money I could put together a smaller collection of 8x12s in some sort of album. They each have their advantages. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
