Guildford Inside Out - reflections and presentation of images

Completing this assignment has prompted some thoughts on what features were part of my existing photographic practice, and what features were new.
Most the photography that I do is what I consider to be travel photography. When we are on a holiday, I aim to take a sequence of photographs portraying my impressions of the place and its people. Whilst this may include some photos of the major sites, I also try to record details of normal daily life, for example, the dogs that roam the city centre in Santiago de Chile, the homeless man sitting on a pavement in Madrid carving a wooden plaque, young people chatting each other up outside a bar in a narrow side street of Madrid. My aim is to take well composed and visually interesting pictures which show the viewer what the place would be like if they were standing in my shoes. The output, these days, is usually a photojournal of text and selected photos telling the story of the trip for sharing with friends.
The key techniques are identifying the character of the place, anticipating possible subjects and locations but also reacting when a photo opportunity appears. To a large extent, my methodology for this assignment has been similar, except I have been doing this in my home town.
However, there are several ways in which what I have done is new and different:

• There has been time to look and wait for photo opportunities which would be impossible on a holiday. 
• I wanted the images to be eye-catching and colourful. In a photojournal, the photos can be relatively low key as long as they are well composed and illustrate the theme. For a potential publication, I felt the photos needed to have more impact individually. This affects the choice of subjects, the selection of images and the extent of post processing treatment. I have attempted to learn and apply techniques for touching up images using Photoshop, beyond those available in Lightroom 3.    
• The requirement to produce square format pictures has similarly impacted the planning and creation of the assignment photos. 

On the other hand, as book illustrations, I did not feel that the images needed to meet the exacting standards of fine art photographs which would be hung in a gallery or home. Like the photographs in Jakarta Inside Out, the photographs could be effective and lively despite some latitude in sharpness and image quality.
I considered various options for presenting the printed images for this assignment, ranging from just preparing prints of the images (as for previous assignments) to preparing individual page layouts including titles, narrative and images. I have ultimately decided to present the work as pro-forma pages containing titles and images with a black line surround, printed on A4 paper with a white border for handling. The supporting narrative will be printed as a frontispiece to the other pages. There were various reasons for this:-

• The narrative that I have written to accompany these Guildford Inside Out photographs is very brief and far less extensive than the equivalent text in the Jakarta Inside Out book. It will fit conveniently into one page.
• Omitting the narrative leaves the photographic pages uncluttered for easy review. 
• It took some time to learn and apply techniques for creating text and image layouts using Photoshop. It is simpler to place the narrative on a separate page.