My First Book: Canada by James Thornett

Anyone who keeps a watchful eye on my Flickr photostream will have noticed that I recently found the time to trawl through the photographs that made it back from my Canada trip earlier this year and upload over 100 of the best.

I've been wanting to create my own photo book for ages and, with a stack of images at the ready, I looked at the different photobook tools available and settled on using Blurb.

A few long nights later - this book editing game is both time consuming and addictive - I'd sent off my first book to the printers, and just over a week later it arrived through the letterbox.

The final product is really impressive... and I'm not just talking about my photos, honest!

The quality of the printing, paper and binding of the book is far more than I expected to get when paying around £25 for a 65 page 10x8" book of my own work.

You can view every single page of the book on the Blurb website using their excellent full preview functionality... and you can even order your own copy.

Hey, why not, it is Christmas soon after all!