"9289", my gritty & grainy Trans-Siberian

Good stuff - I ordered a copy. At the low price i'm very curious to see how it will look on paper.

I wish you added a list of the photo locations at the end.

Have you checked out Klavdij Sluban "east of east"? beautiful b/w images from a similar transiberian trip. One of my favorite photo books.

Cheers,

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Andrea, keep this up.
You are starting to set a pattern that works very well for you.
I followed your progress since your Japan book.

As a side note, as a content producer you'd better tell Blurb to hustle on their support for downloading ebooks for Nook, Kindle also. Their Apple only support is ridiculous.
 
shadowfox said:
Andrea, keep this up.
You are starting to set a pattern that works very well for you.
I followed your progress since your Japan book.

As a side note, as a content producer you'd better tell Blurb to hustle on their support for downloading ebooks for Nook, Kindle also. Their Apple only support is ridiculous.
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There's not much point in photo books for Kindle is there?
 
shadowfox said:
Andrea, keep this up.
You are starting to set a pattern that works very well for you.
I followed your progress since your Japan book.

As a side note, as a content producer you'd better tell Blurb to hustle on their support for downloading ebooks for Nook, Kindle also. Their Apple only support is ridiculous.
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Thank you so much. I agree on Blurb's ebook offer. As a side note: If I want, in addition to ebook for Apple tablets, I can activate the possibility for anyone to download a pdf of the book, which would work on any device. In this case, however, Blub gets 4.99$ for each download, when they claim only 0.40$ for each download of ebook in Apple format. That's fairly unfair, isn't it?
 
Loved your previous release, equally love this set. I can only imagine what your experience was like on this journey, seems like one that will stay in your mind forever.
 
Couldn't agree more, these are fantastic Andrea. Some of the best photography I have seen on RFF, they have a really strong sense of place to them. Interesting you mention Jacob Aue Sobel as his work with the Monochrom is exactly what these reminded me of. Great stuff.
 
Well, I must thank everyone for appreciating my work. It's flattering and motivating. I've been playing with photography for about 15 years now. Obviously one (and one's taste) evolves during such a period of time. So has my work, even during my blog's 2 - 3 years life. The process costed me a number of long-time followers, which a few times made me wonder whether my photography was going the wrong way. But I chose not to think about that, not to do what others (even my own family) thought looked "nicer" but what I felt like doing, at the risk of ending up as the only follower of my own work. Well, it pays off. Many new followers came to my blog, and a few come for every new post I publish. I'm now seriously considering dropping the "like" button. One written comment is worth thousands of likes. So thank you all for appreciating.

I hope many get inspired to doing AND SHARING their own thing.. I for one am always hunting for zines and self published photo books of unknown photographers, and check out each and every suggestion that comes out here on RFF.
 
I can't see anything on either of the links you've given Andrea, which is a shame as I like what I see in the thread.

I just get a big white page with " r.cfm (1x1) " on the tab - no idea whats going on there. I'll keep checking back to see if its just me and my computer.

Best of luck with the sales.
 
Good evening everyone.

For the pure fun of playing with photography and self publishing, I thought of sharing a few color images I took with the Ricoh GR while on my Trans-Siberian trip. I never thought of doing any color work on this trip, but sometimes - like during a gorgeous sunrise over the Baikal or the ultimate snow storm in Khabarovsk - the light just called for color. So why not share that too, of course separately from the B&W work?

So I made a 32 pages booklet which (again for sole fun) I called "9289 - Bonus tracks". A printed version would require color paper and would cost about 10$, which I don't feel this booklet is worth. However, it can be downloaded as eBook for free HERE

Now, unfortunately, Blurb only allows previewing 30% of eBooks (even those shared free of charge!). Which is why I paste below a screen capture of all miniaturized pages.

If someone who does not use Apple platforms should have a burning wish to have it, I can send it as a (38 Mb) pdf, free of charge (Blurb allows to share eBooks free of charge, but claims a few bucks for pdf).

Cheers


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Andrea!

My copy has arrived and I like it.
Indeed the book reads like a train journey, train life, passengers, also boredom, the world flying by, stops to be able to step outside.... really great!

There´s just one thing to complain, as in so many photo books:
The big formats stretching over 2 pages are losing half of their impact by the middle fold. It just tears the images apart.
I´d even prefer smaller pictures covering only 1 page, horizontal format.

cheers, and keep on rolling!
smp
 
straightmp said:
Andrea!

My copy has arrived and I like it.
Indeed the book reads like a train journey, train life, passengers, also boredom, the world flying by, stops to be able to step outside.... really great!

There´s just one thing to complain, as in so many photo books:
The big formats stretching over 2 pages are losing half of their impact by the middle fold. It just tears the images apart.
I´d even prefer smaller pictures covering only 1 page, horizontal format.

cheers, and keep on rolling!
smp
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Thanks for your feedback, very much appreciated including the critique about the double page picture drawbacks. I agree with it, but particularly for some images that seem to suffer from being split. Many others are fine even so, in my opinion. I needed to compromise between as many large images as possible, the wish to keep the price low (depends on the final number of pages) and of course also the drawback of split images. Trade format isn't big, and images printed on 1/4 of a page feel too sacrified for me.

My real frustration with this type of book is another: the fact that black tones never turn out really black, but more like "newspaper blacks". But how many of you would have bought a copy if it had costed 4 times more? And how many would I have ordered to give away to friends?.. ;-)
 
Andrea,

My copy arrived a couple of days ago. The content is wonderful. I agree about the blacks - they look slightly washed out, but, over all, it doesn't overly affect the experience.

Wouldn't have minded a signed copy, mind 😉
 
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