Blurb Trade Books

I recently discovered that in addition to their quite pricey ‘photo books’, Blurb also let you make substantially cheaper ‘trade books’. I found a few blog posts from people who had used the trade book service as a cheaper alternative to the photo book service & seemed happy with the results, so I threw together a bunch of pics in Adobe InDesign using Blurb’s template for the smallest trade book size & this is the result.

The quality is actually pretty nice. I’ve never been particularly impressed by the quality of Blurb’s photo books (I own several) considering their price, but the quality of these trade books is pretty good for their price. This one is 84 pages & came out at £9.11 before postage, which is really the only issue – you end up paying £6.99 postage unless you find a valid coupon via Google.

These are all film snaps from the past couple of years, a mix of 35mm & 120, all scanned on the V600. I should’ve included some more colour shots, but evidently I haven’t shot much colour film in recent years!

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Snapsh!ts

Another roll of Tri-X through the Bessa @ 1600. Developed slightly different than usual – did a 5 minute pre-soak & agitated more vigorously throughout.

Introducing Yelim to the Shewee.

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Snapsh!ts

Starting off with a frame from my great grandfather’s 1930s Rolleicord that my mother gave to me when I visited for Christmas a few years back. She called this her ‘contemporary’ Christmas tree.

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THAM 12 Subwoofer Build

Toward the end of 2013 I was getting the itch to build something & I decided upon a THAM 12 tapped horn PA subwoofer, a design from Martinsson.

I ordered the wood as a flat pack from Tim Malone on the Speakerplans forums, who runs speaker-cabinets.co.uk dealing in CNC loudspeaker cabinets (both flat pack & assembled/finished).

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