Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Phil, I'd love to get your book but ~$80 is out of my budget for the moment. If you can make a separate run with lower pricing, I'm definitely interested. I'm also interested in how you print it less expensively too :-) Blurb books are great but the pricing sucks :-) On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Phil Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>wrote: > As many here know, I was an independent duty combat photographer in the > US Navy attached to NMCB-4 (Hoorah Seabees!) from 2003-2005. In August > of 2004 I deployed with the 'Bees to Fallujah, Iraq and worked to show > the infrastructure work the battalion was doing. We worked with the > deployed battalions of the 1st Marine Division as well as US Army > combat engineers among others. I was in-country from August, 2004 until > the first week of January, 2005. > > This last few months I have been working on compiling a book of photos > that I took with my Leicas while there (my work camera was a Nikon > D2h.) It's finally done and I'm putting this out to hopefully generate > a buzz to get a sense of the viability of doing a first print run of at > least 30 copies. As the book is 166 pages, the single-print cost on > Blurb.com is prohibitive for the would-be buyer and I don't want to > price the book out of reach. > > So here it is: > http://issuu.com/phil_forrest/docs/fallujah_a_photographers_perspective > > Feel free to let me know what you think of it and next week I think I'm > going to begin taking orders. > > Thanks all! > Phil Forrest > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>