Ian Foster's Photo Book of the Great Dorset Steam Fair

jwhillracer · Post by **jwhillracer** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 8:23 pm

For all of those who were there, and anybody else interested in Porsche tractors who wasn't, this is a fabulous record of a great week.

http://www.ianfoster.co.uk/porschetractor/book.php

Reassuringly expensive!

But excellent.................

JW

chris hak · Post by **chris hak** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:08 pm

My wallet appears to have been confiscated.........

jwhillracer · Post by **jwhillracer** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 7:07 pm

Your Mrs. is scared of having half a dozen vintage tractors arriving in the driveway as well?

JW

chris hak · Post by **chris hak** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:14 pm

jwhillracer wrote:Your Mrs. is scared of having half a dozen vintage tractors arriving in the driveway as well?

JW

With Christmas comming up, present choices are currently between a book of tractor photographs or money towards the hillclimb training at Gurston Down. Wife would probably prefer to buy the book as less risk to my neck......but for me, I need to get the hillclimb out of my system (hopefully...).

jwhillracer · Post by **jwhillracer** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:07 pm

chris hak wrote: I need to get the hillclimb out of my system (hopefully...).

Not a chance!!!!

Ask me how I know................................................31 seasons later!

JW

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:38 pm

Anyone here know Ian Foster, wouldn't mind finding out who did the book for him.

jwhillracer · Post by **jwhillracer** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:41 am

Mike,

You have a PM.

Cheers!

JW

KS · Post by KS » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:45 am

Mike wrote:Anyone here know Ian Foster, wouldn't mind finding out who did the book for him.

It looks to me like one of the books you can order through Apple. They come in various sizes, hard or soft cover… There are on-line templates which you use to drop photos and text in place and then when happy, order as many – or few – books as you want. Not cheap per unit compared to mainstream printing but ideal for someone who wants to produce, for example, a book about the story of how they built an RSR rep…

Have no idea if this is what Ian used, but this is one option if you want to do a low-volume edition over which you have near total control.

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:57 am

KS wrote:
Mike wrote:Anyone here know Ian Foster, wouldn't mind finding out who did the book for him.
It looks to me like one of the books you can order through Apple. They come in various sizes, hard or soft cover… There are on-line templates which you use to drop photos and text in place and then when happy, order as many – or few – books as you want. Not cheap per unit compared to mainstream printing but ideal for someone who wants to produce, for example, a book about the story of how they built an RSR rep…

Have no idea if this is what Ian used, but this is one option if you want to do a low-volume edition over which you have near total control.

Here's another photo-book company. I've not used these people yet (on my to-do list

) but they were recommended to me....

http://www.bobbooks.co.uk/photobooks/examples.html

Look fwd to seeing the book Mike, then the movie....

TheEasyLife · Post by **TheEasyLife** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:13 pm

Mitch wrote:
KS wrote:
Mike wrote:Anyone here know Ian Foster, wouldn't mind finding out who did the book for him.
It looks to me like one of the books you can order through Apple. They come in various sizes, hard or soft cover… There are on-line templates which you use to drop photos and text in place and then when happy, order as many – or few – books as you want. Not cheap per unit compared to mainstream printing but ideal for someone who wants to produce, for example, a book about the story of how they built an RSR rep…

Have no idea if this is what Ian used, but this is one option if you want to do a low-volume edition over which you have near total control.
Here's another photo-book company. I've not used these people yet (on my to-do list ) but they were recommended to me....

http://www.bobbooks.co.uk/photobooks/examples.html

Look fwd to seeing the book Mike, then the movie....

Another one to consider is www.blurb.com. I can recomend them as we did one as an xmas present for a relative a few years ago. They also give you the ability to sell your books on their site so you are a mini publisher and you set the price. We gave the one we ordered as an xmas present and then bought another for ourselves as it was a really nice book.

HTH

James