Steve UK Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I have started to publish location guide books to UK that might be of interest https://www.facebook.com/Kellysguides/posts/627992754077167 Available on Amazon Norfolk for Photographers Suffolk for Photographers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Yarvin Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Good luck with these! Do you give tours too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted May 15, 2017 Author Share Posted May 15, 2017 Hi Brian, I don't give tours at present, but happy to give advice to visitors about locations and itineraries. Working on editions covering Essex, Shropshire, and West Penwith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted May 21, 2017 Author Share Posted May 21, 2017 https://www.facebook.com/Kellysguides/posts/627344247475351 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 https://www.facebook.com/Kellysguides/posts/635489733327469 Not the most popular seaside town any longer, but very interesting to visit with a camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted June 11, 2017 Author Share Posted June 11, 2017 NORFOLK FOR PHOTOGRAPHYKing’s Lynn is an often overlooked corner of Norfolk, The old town is full of interesting architecture to photograph. https://www.facebook.com/Kellysguides/posts/582982131911563 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Brooks Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Brian makes a good point. Do some cross selling by publishing the book, leading photo tours, week long photo seminars at a local hotel. Then you can sell not only the book, but the seminar, tour, travel, accommodation, to the same person. Cover the entire UK one region at a time. You will get collectors for the entire set Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 2 hours ago, geogphotos said: The church is still several hundred metres or so from the cliffs - not exactly overlooking them. 150 meters on the fastest eroding bit of the East Coast, overlooking I would call it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 1 hour ago, Bill Brooks said: Brian makes a good point. Do some cross selling by publishing the book, leading photo tours, week long photo seminars at a local hotel. Then you can sell not only the book, but the seminar, tour, travel, accommodation, to the same person. Cover the entire UK one region at a time. You will get collectors for the entire set Thank you Bill for the great ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 From the top of the tower? It soon will do anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Yarvin Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 14 hours ago, Bill Brooks said: Brian makes a good point. Do some cross selling by publishing the book, leading photo tours, week long photo seminars at a local hotel. Then you can sell not only the book, but the seminar, tour, travel, accommodation, to the same person. Cover the entire UK one region at a time. You will get collectors for the entire set Thank you Bill. I've been thinking of doing something roughly similar here in Pennsylvania Amish Country and I've been mulling it over for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Brooks Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Brian it is important that your first book is well designed, so that you can continue the format throughout a series. If the books in the series are different sizes/ colors etc and have a different approach for each book, then you start to loose the series collectors. Think of the green Michelin guides. Same design, only the cover image and title changes on the cover. Easy to spot in the bookstore. Collection looks uniform on your bookshelf. Easy to use as the different information is presented in the same format in each book. http://travel.michelin.co.uk/green-guides-92-c.asp Publishers love an author that will produce a series over the years. Another idea would be to produce the original guides initially, and then spin off the same content, in a large size arty coffee table book. A book so big that it would come with retractable legs so you could actually use it as a coffee table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 7 hours ago, geogphotos said: Maybe in 50 years the church will be gone. I'm not trying to quibble just pointing out that, as opposed to what the photo guide says, you can't take a pic of the cliffs from the church. Actually, it is not all that easy to get down to the base of the cliffs. See those trees in the background - that's where the access was a few years back. The only way to overlook the cliffs is to stand right on top of them and risk life and limb. fare point well made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Brooks Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Not a bad idea, but no cut for you. Similar to those detailed adult colouring books that are so popular at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Yarvin Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 7 hours ago, Bill Brooks said: Brian it is important that your first book is well designed, so that you can continue the format throughout a series. If the books in the series are different sizes/ colors etc and have a different approach for each book, then you start to loose the series collectors. Think of the green Michelin guides. Bill, thank you for the tip. I have at least a tiny bit of experience in this area with three books in identical format from Countryman Press (in the USA) and a volume in the big "Food, A Global History" series from Reaktion Books in the UK. (Mine is Lamb, A Global History BTW). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Yarvin Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 8 hours ago, geogphotos said: Brian, I'd love to come on an Amish photography trip and be inspired by your enthusiasm for travel photography. Ian, I'd take you on an Amish Country tour even if I wound up giving them to nobody else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Alamy on tour Brian does Pennsylvania Bill Toronto Ian suffolk me Norfolk and the driving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 59 minutes ago, geogphotos said: Nothing in Suffolk, best to try Norfolk Sorry you can't keep Suffolk to yourself. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Brooks Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 8 hours ago, Steve UK said: Alamy on tour Brian does Pennsylvania Bill Toronto Ian suffolk me Norfolk and the driving Already did it, illustrating a poetry book, not a guide, in 1984. https://www.amazon.ca/Queen-City-Raymond-Souster/dp/0887505074 Not a bad suggestion, collectively we could do the entire world. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Yarvin Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 On 8/3/2017 at 03:50, geogphotos said: Nothing in Suffolk, best to try Norfolk Ian, you are in Suffolk! And you aren't nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Matt Limb Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 10 hours ago, Steve UK said: Good luck with this Steve ....... we photographers and writers must stick together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve UK Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 53 minutes ago, Matt Limb said: Good luck with this Steve ....... we photographers and writers must stick together! Thanks Matt, how are things going with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Limb Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 5 hours ago, Steve UK said: Thanks Matt, how are things going with you Hi Steve - None too bad, previous book a success and now onto the next ................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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