I have chosen to illustrate the story of a two week trip on a traditional wooden schooner around some of least visited islands of Indonesia in November 2010. This was our third voyage with the same group of friends and trip organizer. Knowledge of these previous holidays helped considerably with planning the assignment, even though I had never visited this particular area of islands before.
Before we left UK, I read through the course notes for this section of the course and prepared an outline plan as follows:-
Page 1: Cover
Pages 2-3: Landscapes (islands, volcanos, seascapes)
Pages 4-5: Daily life (street scenes, markets, street sellers, school children etc.)
Pages 6-7: Cultural life (dancing, weaving, religion)
Page 8: Life on board (activities of crew and passengers)
Page 9: Farewell (sunset, port departure?)
I noted "Wildlife" as an option for inclusion. Our groups main interest in going to these islands was to see the various cultures of the inhabitants, past and present. We were not planning to visit places to see bird or animal life. On previous holidays I only obtained a handful of nature photographs.
With this list of topics in my mind, I was looking for suitable subjects on each day of our trip. I have now sorted out the better photographs, and need to decide on the selection and layout of the each section of the picture essay.
I think that I will again imitate the layout style and text from a photo essay in National Geographic magazine "Malaysia's Secret Realm" by photographer Mattias Klum (NGS August 1997). I first used this page style for the Narrative Picture Essay exercise. This layout has a white background, which I think suits the bright tropical light. I also liked the treatment of text, short and to the point. I also quite liked the idea of insetting small photographs on top of a larger pictures that I saw in National Geographic article "Testing the Waters of Rongelap" by Bill Curtsinger and Emory Kristof (NGS April 1998).
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