I felt mine was a bit of a haphazard mess.
Ian, this suits the subject material, charity shops are just that!
I suspected from a previous conversation that this was where you volunteered as the price of photographic gear in there is quite firm for a charity shop (nothing wrong with that!), but I did buy two rolls of expired 35mm Superia 400 there for a £1 - probably before you started there
Your zine was great, and above all it was fun to view, and accepts multiple viewings with ease, there is always something in there to catch your eye, another memory from the past.
Off The Rails 2
This was a follow up zine to one of my earlier zines continuing a pictorial view of abandoned slate trucks in North Wales Quarries. I struggled with the formatting slightly as my shooting has changed a lot in the last few years from landscape orientation to portraits. The layout was straightforward as it was effectively a copy of the first zine (slightly disappointed that the 'slate gray' on the covers is different from the first zine despite being the exact same shade in Affinity PUblisher - but I know MIxam have changed some of their printing processes, and print at different locations now).
For me the most enjoyable part of the zine was being out in the old quarries with a camera, most of these were done solo (maybe not wise after my ankle incident), but I love the peace and quiet (I often arrive early - around 7am - so have the places to myself), its away from a computer, and I can explore and find new locations (some of which my 'quarry' friends didn't know existed). I do some planning work before hand with OS Maps and Google Earth (the latter certainly doesn't show elevation well, and what look like a route to a location can have a 300ft drop/cliff in it!). I've got more to explore so who knows there might be a third zine in the series yet! But the quarries to visit are smaller, and often older and therefore less likely to have the remnants of trucks. There are quite a few locations underground but not having the skills or equipment of
@sirch I doubt that I'll get to those especially as age (and 'my bottle') is creeping up on me.
I'm an avid zine collector, if something caches my eye I'll buy it, and have amased quite a collection of zines (several hundred!), they all have their merit, and the ones from this exchange stand proudly in the collection, I love the diversity, and the range from very homespun to professional, its a fantastic range and I find it very grounding - not only does it show some great and imaginative photography, it gives subjects the time and day that they might not have normally received. My Dad was a member of a book club where he received random non-fictional book titles once a month - he said that it broadened his horizons, and I find these zine exchanges do just that.