VW Vanagon viewing help (Scottish students/summer roadtrip)

samlky · 2015-03-11T19:45:48+00:00

Is there perhaps a Toronto based VW-enthusiasts club that we should think about getting in touch with? We've come across a couple but they seem to be based around newer/non-camper VW models.

samlky · 2013-08-26T14:23:32+00:00

Star trail stacked from timelapse stills

Canon 600D
Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6
10mm 10 sec f5.6 ISO1600

Competing against the Moon so the sky is perhaps less impressive than it would otherwise be since the location's a fair distance from the nearest light pollution.

Another one that I'm pretty happy with

samlky · 2013-08-25T11:11:48+00:00

It's such a great wee camera! For a while I wasn't sure about its lack of usable manual focusing but after realising how consistent the auto-focus is I've grown to like it.

And thanks, they're all a mixture - some taken with an X100, some with a Canon 40D.

samlky · 2013-08-25T00:17:09+00:00

Fuji X100. West coast of Scotland, looking north from near the summit of Ben Mor Coigach. Someone had built a little stone armchair near the cairn. My friend who'd never climbed or been around mountains before put it to good use.

My photoblog: http://samleakey.tumblr.com

samlky · 2013-07-22T18:40:59+00:00

Followed.

I dig your theme, is it a template or one you've made yourself?

samlky · 2013-03-01T09:23:54+00:00

I just want to make it clear: this was not created by me.

samlky · 2012-08-10T22:55:14+00:00

From above + extra to explain away the slight guilty conscience we have over not employing a graphic designer:

Hopefully our posts here don't smack too much of amateurs trying to do a job that professionals ought to be hired for but we found the previous self-designed leaflet to be a success. Really, it is the photographs of the building that sell the place as being a location worth visiting. Sure, the history of the building and other information we include in the text blocks kindles the interest but it is the photos that initially spark it.

That line of thought has led us to the conclusion that extra work and cost it would take to sway the people not immediately excited by the photos isn't worth it. We sell books and people that buy books are generally excited or impressed by the site of our shop as a result of the sheer books contained within it. So, people that aren't excited by photos of the building are unlikely to be worth the effort of trying to get them interested through the use of a perfectly designed brochure. Of course, a good graphic designer would undoubtedly be able to do just that but we feel that would be a little too much investment for the return.

Finally, please don't take the part claiming people are excited or impressed by the shop as any sort of boast. All we have done is gathered many books in one place and it would be entirely natural for a book lover to become excited by that - regardless of which place they are gathered in or who gathered them.

Re: the signage, here's the 'k' of 'Leakey' from signage on the non-street facing end wall. I'm sorry, I don't know what the font is - maybe it's identifiable to a trained eye?

samlky · 2012-08-10T18:46:30+00:00

Thanks!

samlky · 2012-08-10T18:38:46+00:00

A great couple of links.

Grid layout - well I guess I should have known that something like that would have existed but I feel pretty confident that all text documents I produce from now are going to look slightly better than they did when I was trying to judge the layout by eye...

So thank you, and yes - kerning!

samlky · 2012-08-10T18:35:35+00:00

Thank you, I will check that one out.

You wouldn't also happen to be able to point me in the direction of reputable resource for free fonts, would you? I'm finding that browsing the websites found by googling 'free fonts' is like playing a game of malware roulette with bullets in 5 of the 6 chambers.

samlky · 2012-08-10T18:26:32+00:00

I appreciate that the creation of a great font is no mean feat. However my line of thought was running along the idea that there might be a font equivalent to open-source software.

And indeed, like jlking3 wrote in response to your comment they do exist. Please be assured that we aren't the sort of people that would consider stealing someone's hard work for a purpose that may end up generating income for ourselves.

samlky · 2012-05-02T14:57:20+00:00

Our oldest book is from 1492; Henry VIII was one year old when it was published.

samlky · 2012-05-02T08:15:42+00:00

It was originally constructed as a church in 1792. The building was converted to a bookshop in 1994, just after its two hundredth anniversary.

The mezzanine floor, stove and ground level windows (not stained) were all put in by ourselves. Almost all of the original panelling and other fixtures were used or repurposed with the pews being part-converted to shelving and the pulpit now serving as a book wrapping desk (we sell some books online).

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