Photo experimentation

So far, in terms of photography, I've gone down two clear routes. One documenting my journeys, mostly using the car mirror to frame things and then also the ruined cars/scrapyard work.

In terms of thinking about what I want to do with my scrap yard images, I would either mount them simply or put two or four of them together, I've done experiment of this below...

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For the other set of images, I'm experimenting with text at the minute. Either simple, factual stuff, or adding a narrative element by perhaps adding a diary format to it. Something not necessarily about what's in the image, but explaining something from that day.Abandoned petrol station. Glentham, A46


123.7 miles left

The above ideas I'm not so keen on, I like them, but the text doesn't look real enough and it would be better if i had the polaroids and could write on them. However, the prosepct of polaroid and being able to write on it is interesting. It adds that kitschy feel and seems a lot more personal. I would need to get hold of more polaroid films but now they're back in production this shouldn't be an issue. For now, there is a program i can use to simulate the Polaroid look.

Because I want to carry on photographing the things you see on a road trip, I can carry across the idea of illustrating the images with text and maybe receipts. I can collect things I pick up on road trips. Because most of my road trips are due to football, I will have tickets from this, as well of receipts and maybe other bits. It might be quite interesting to present it as a scrapbook like I've researched.

The next thing for me to do is to look at all of my images for both tangents of this project and pick out the best ones for the assessment.