Alan, I actually made a blurb book. I had a dear friend who asked me to shoot "around the edges" at her wedding. I don't do weddings, but like the sort of behind the scenes stuff. I shot with a Lensbaby what I thought were romantic images. I then gave the best ones to her in a book. This was just before they announced the heavier paper. I would definitely go for the heavy paper in any subsequent books. I have an idea I am working on and want to make a square book. Hopefully soon. Thanks for sharing. Rene -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 8:18 AM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: RE: Tooting own horn. Rene, Thanks for looking - the two newest are the smallest Blurb size - 7 x 7, just right for a first book. I plan to make slip cases that hold five or six, sixty-page books as I complete them. The others are 8 X 10. BTW I like the heavier paper they offer for a couple of $ more. I've been nagging friends to do books. Once they overcome fear of software inertia they love it. Many of them are like me and have years worth of images they want to preserve in some practical way for their family. An instructor I know makes this an option for his student portfolios and they are doing wonderful things. Are you planning a book? My work flow is simple - I use free Blurb and Google's Picasa for the digicam stuff. AZ Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround Book. Now an E-book. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] RE: Tooting own horn. > From: Rene Hales <Rene@xxxxxx> > Date: Sat, December 06, 2008 7:31 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Alan, very nice books. They looked to > be in a square format, which I liked, but did not see the size of the > book. I might have missed it somewhere. Can you share the size? > Thanks, > Rene > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:50 AM > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > Subject: Tooting own horn. > Fellow PF'ers, > I have two new Blurb books: > Please go here and enter "alan zinn" in search window for a preview: > http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/category/Fine+Art+Photography > Everyone needs to do a book! It provides incentives to keep on shooting and > organize work from years gone by. Books make a positive difference in your > seeing and how you think about your photography. I have several in the pipe > line that I work on from time to time. The Blurb layout system is free and > very easy to use. They explain everything in great detail on their web page. > Has anyone else done a book that we can see on line? > AZ
