One I gathered all of the prints I wanted to use for a physical book. I have firstly went through all the photographic prints I own, this meant I looked at all archival images and selected ones that I thought best relate to the theme of travel and adventure. The book is divided into 4 main areas:

• Film Photographs from around 4-5years ago, these are the ones which have more blue/green hues.
• Film Photographs from around 1-2yeards ago, these document my trip to Croatia last summer.
• Digital Camera Photographs, which document a trip to Paris, done in November last year
• Digital camera photographs documenting traveling to Norway, done 2weeks ago, for the exam

I divided the book into these 4 categories so that I could show them in the correct order of events. I needed to pan the layout of these images, therefore I have used masking tape and sticky notes to roughly plan the order of images. on sticky notes I wrote if I should collage/ Montage or alter the images.

The idea behind altering those images was due to me not wanting an organised order of images, but instead wanted to be creative and show my creativity through the alterations. I think altering images brings out the adventures side of them, they appear more exciting, interesting and new, which are the main qualities people get by traveling and visiting new places. I wanted the photographs to represent this adventurous nature.

When it came to the paper joining and how the book is going to look like, it was the first thing I have done, Because then I could attach the order of the images, since I knew the correct order of pages. What I have done is got 3 pieces of A4 to fold in the middle and for one to go inside the other one. in books a number of 6 is very common, however because I was working this thicker paper it was best to half that amount to 3, leaving me with 6 pages, which meant 12 faces. I have repeated this 4 times and was left with 4×12 faces. however I had to be mindful to leave the first and last as well as the 2nd page from the start free, as this is also a common practice in books.

Bellow is the layout plan I have done before attaching the images onto the pages. When planning out this layout I made sure to pay attention to:

• the space for the images I wanted to include, sent to the print folder, which haven’t arrived yet, than how much space I should leave if I am planning to do a certain alteration to the images,
• how often I follow through with altering the images,
• how I plan to alter them, if its by cutting, bonding together etc.
• and one of the most important was the actual layout of the pages ( sheets of A4 paper). – how I am going to fold it and bond them together with thread