After the shopping frenzy of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales when I enjoyed a shed load of orders Eyeshoot's back to normal! While I miss the fun of selling loads of prints, I do like the quieter times as I get a chance to plan, plot and catch up with things I've meant to do and put off. One of these things was to finally get around to making my book of graffiti photos. I've made a few books with Blurb over the years, but the daunting task of organizing several hundreds of images spread across multiple drives, discs and sticks did rather chill my enthuasism. But spurred on by a very generous discount voucher which I picked up at the Blurb Pop Up event in London a month or so ago and a bit of a lull in sales and queueing at the post office, I finally got my act togeher and settled down to business.
And here's the result! Things on Walls by Sarah Franklin, 120 glorious full colour pages of graffiti, stickers, stencils, paste ups, random notes on walls from London, Manchester, Liverpool, Barcelona with a couple of wildcards from Crete and Fuerteventura thrown in for luck.
The book preview doodad below will show you the first fifteen pages and hopefully when your appetite. My copy hasn't arrived in my eager little hands yet, but I'm hoping it won't be too much longer.
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Friday, 10 December 2010
Monday, 8 November 2010
Fun in London
I enjoyed a rare visit to my former home town of London last week. It was a trip spurred by family stuff but by happy coincidence coincided with the Blurb/Etsy/Moo event at the Blurb pop up shop where they were going to be hosting all sorts of events from the 3rd to 14th November. I have used Blurb for three books over the years and have always been impressed by the Book Smart software and the quality of the books, especially since the introduction of their premium paper. My first book was an experiment really - my first foray into the world of photo books and I used a selection of my blue photographs shot in Morocco as they make a really nice unified theme and I was very happy with my softcover book. Next I made a book of Abandoned Christmas Trees which has been one of my ongoing photo projects for a couple of years, it was great to see the best of the bunch in a lovely square hard backed book with premium paper. So it was with great interest I listed to the talk and saw an expert at work with the software and managed to get some questions answered. There was a very impressive display of books to look at which I must say, put my modest offerings to shame, but I was certainly inspired to have another go.....perhaps I'll finally make the graffiti book I've been meaning to for years?
Also present were moo.com who are printers of business cards, postcards & greetings cards, you can cleverly import your images from many online sources and have a different image on each card which is invaluable for anyone who makes products or photographers wanting to show off their pictures. I've used all of their products over the years and could be tempted back!
Finally, of course Etsy was present, there was a talk by Anda which was really aimed at people without Etsy experience or beginners, but it was very interesting to put a face to a name and later on I met who writes the AmityEtsy UK Edition blog and has very kindly featured my work on a number of occasions!
I also met a great group of people who either use Etsy or are thinking about it, it was lovely to chat and share my experiences with them, it's such an exciting and vibrant theme and it was a great day!
Thanks to all involved!
Also present were moo.com who are printers of business cards, postcards & greetings cards, you can cleverly import your images from many online sources and have a different image on each card which is invaluable for anyone who makes products or photographers wanting to show off their pictures. I've used all of their products over the years and could be tempted back!
Finally, of course Etsy was present, there was a talk by Anda which was really aimed at people without Etsy experience or beginners, but it was very interesting to put a face to a name and later on I met who writes the AmityEtsy UK Edition blog and has very kindly featured my work on a number of occasions!
I also met a great group of people who either use Etsy or are thinking about it, it was lovely to chat and share my experiences with them, it's such an exciting and vibrant theme and it was a great day!
Thanks to all involved!
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
I've made a new Blurb Book!
I was suddenly and unexpectedly inspired this afternoon to make a new book on Blurb.
The title of my new opus is 'Abandoned Christmas Trees', I've quite a nice little collection which I shot mainly at the start of 2009 with a couple as recently as August so I've worked on them a little and I can proudly present my new book:
It's 56 pages long, with an image wrap hard cover and on Blurb's special Premium Paper, I've just ordered my own copy with Express Delivery using a 50% off promotion so I'll definitely have it by the 24th.
I think it looks great and if you click on the image above, you'll go straight to my Blurb Bookstore where you can view a full preview and (hopefully) treat yourself to an alternative Christmas book.
The title of my new opus is 'Abandoned Christmas Trees', I've quite a nice little collection which I shot mainly at the start of 2009 with a couple as recently as August so I've worked on them a little and I can proudly present my new book:
It's 56 pages long, with an image wrap hard cover and on Blurb's special Premium Paper, I've just ordered my own copy with Express Delivery using a 50% off promotion so I'll definitely have it by the 24th.
I think it looks great and if you click on the image above, you'll go straight to my Blurb Bookstore where you can view a full preview and (hopefully) treat yourself to an alternative Christmas book.
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