Both sides are printed, just like any book. Don't know about the Mac/PC question. We did it on my son Mike's Mac, but the images were prepared on my PC. I'll ask.

I will show some interior pages but after the club members have had a first look tonight.

Including shipping, the A4 hardcover with dustjacket will be £45, the A4 softcover will be £35 and the approx 8" x 6" softcover will be £25.

To get lower prices we will need to have an order for 25+ copies.

Not cheap, but the printing quality is as good as any coffee-table book.

It took about 3 hours to prepare on a Mac and was then uploaded and duly delivered from the USA. It took around 7 days to arrive.

This was an interesting project to do, a Year Book for the Atherton & District Amateur Photographic Society (ADAPS). 44 pages of members' images for posterity, copies produced to special order only so probably one of the rarest books around...so far there are just two copies!


It was produced via iBooks on a Mac and although not cheap it is beautiful quality. The club members will see this tomorrow night, so it will be very interesting to see what they think.

The *istDS is still a superb camera and perfectly adequate for all uses apart from the largest print sizes.

We sold our FAJ 75-300mm to someone on this forum, but found that we missed it and ended up buying another one. Not a good plan.

What I like about the FAJ lens is the close focusing. This makes it possible to make images of small flowers, for example, from a relatively distant viewpoint. However, close focusing indeed because 1.4m is an incredible magnification for a lens that would be a 450mm-equivalent on film.

It's not as crisp as some other lenses, but it is sharp and has a nice feel to the right sort of images.

That cat is a wonderful image. They look so soft and attractive, but in reality would tear us limb from limb if we happened to be a small as a mouse.

Our oldest cat purrs sweetly as he rakes you with his claws. The youngest one constantly whinges - let me in, let me out, fuss me, feed me....

That would be a terrible waste. The merest hint of a suggestion never even crossed my mind...

Well that got a few responses, many thanks for the comments.

The connection between stone and trees is that both are of the earth. The Earth is stone and the tree is life erupting from the rocky earth....

The Dali of Atherton, mmm, I like that, so perhaps I'll grow the moustache and post a picture.

Tree and Stone was created by using Blending Modes in Photoshop and is made from two images.

The fireworks shot is a stack of separate images from Southport. All the fireworks were shot on B. The bridge for the foreground is the top shot. It too had a black sky, selected using Magic Wand and deleted, leaving the other shots behind visible. A little tidying and erasing to reveal more shots below and we get the composite.

Black skies are great for this technique as they are very easy to select and remove.

A new image for your consideration...