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Ian Foster's Photo Book of the Great Dorset Steam Fair
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 8:23 pm
by jwhillracer
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
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:08 pm
by chris hak
My wallet appears to have been confiscated.........
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 7:07 pm
by jwhillracer
Your Mrs. is scared of having half a dozen vintage tractors arriving in the driveway as well?
JW
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:14 pm
by chris hak
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...).
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:07 pm
by jwhillracer
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
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:38 pm
by Mike
Anyone here know Ian Foster, wouldn't mind finding out who did the book for him.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:41 am
by jwhillracer
Mike,
You have a PM.
Cheers!
JW
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:45 am
by KS
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.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:57 am
by Mitch
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....
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:13 pm
by TheEasyLife
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