Book Cover!!

If you don’t really know me you will probably think I’m the saddest person ever, but if you do know me this will kind of be expected. I have an obsession with travel. I don’t want to be rich or have an amazing high ranking job, my dream is to see the world and visit as many countries as I can until I’m unable to know more. So I have this book. It was given to me by my sister who knows just how much travelling means to me. This is it…

In my book I have lists upon lists of places I want to visit, wonders I want to see and things I want to do. This is my bible, and this is what I live by. This little book has all my hopes and dream hidden away in it. It’s my baby and I figured why not make my book resemble that? After all it is my baby too? Something I have traveled to work on and been able to tick some lifelong dreams off along the way!

So that is what I decided to do. I decided to make my photo book a tribute to my dream diary. And you never know, I might make one for every place I go in the world!

To do this I bought a map and stuck stickers on where I had come from and where I was. I added my name and the title by gluing simply of lined paper. I wanted it to look almost like a scrap book. I then scanned the map in and had the image to play about with on my computer.

When I did this I had to re-scan. I felt like the dot stickers weren't bright enough in blue so I changed them to pink. I also considered creating a line that joined the images but I wasn't too sure how to go about this and in the end decided I liked it how it was.  

I often struggle in my photography having things that are too chaotic and colourful. I like things to be simple and black and white. So it was a real challenge for me to come to terms with such a busy cover. I considered trying to simplify it and make it cleaner by just having a small map in a white boarder as my front cover. However I felt like you lost the essence of what I was going for when I did this. Also I didn't like how small the dots were, they really were no longer visible. This didn't work and I thought to myself, why am I fighting this? Just do it what is there to lose? So I did I though ‘balls to the wall’ I’m going for it!

 

This is my final cover. I decided to just use the full image as a cover wrap. I like it and that’s all that matters to me. I feel like it has personal meaning and it is something that I wouldn't normally choose to do, and were all about breaking comfort zones aren't we?