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In Note & Diary Style Book volume 4, a magazine I love, there are 3 pages covering how Spanish photographer Itxaso Zuñiga recorded her journey to Gobi desert in a Traveler's Notebook. I found some interesting techniques by just looking at the way she did it and I'm sharing with you all photo journaling lovers.
- Play with cut-out window of a page to show part(s) of a photo beneath that page. It can be as simple as the example on page one of the magazine, but you can have a lot more fun doing something more complicated, e.g. shoot a photo from inside of a beach house looking through the windows, take another shot of the beach from outside, use the first photo with cut-out windows on a page to show part(s) of the second photo in the next page.
- Take a lot of people photos with shallow depth of field, select one as the key image on one page, put a collage/mosaic of the rest of the people photos on the opposite page. This creates a simple 2 pages of lives you met in your journey, which already tells a lot of the place.
- Use the same technique above but change the topic to "Sky", "Cloud", "Flower", etc.
- Intentionally take a lot of sky, eye-level and ground photos. Use these stock photos to compose a collage, say 5 x 7 photos. On the top rows you put various sky shots, on the bottom rows ground shots. Put either one large photo of an eye-level shot or just follow the grid to fill in photos of objects/scenes/people you shot during the trip. This creates a collage with a central theme but not as obvious because the whole collage is obscured by "background" shots.
- To match a rough theme using a Polaroid (soon to be reproduced again!), peel off the white protective frame to make a square photo which the unexposed chemical formation can be seen on the edges.
- Keep the words simple. A few keywords which capture your feeling is already enough if you decide the journal is more visual. In an example of Itxaso's page, beneath a Polaroid of the Mongolian family she wrote "Nomads Generosity Strong Hospitality Humble Pride".
- Put glue evenly on a page and sprinkle sands and dirts on it. You brought back a piece of the land you once walked on in the journey. Same trick works for plants, feathers and human hairs :P
Lastly, as I often mention in our Travel Photo Cafe talks, to create a beautiful photo journal, equip yourself with a few layouts in mind before the trip, this will help you take more useful shots, collect more interesting objects and create better layouts because you are effectively stocking up useful contents all the time.
After secretly injecting my personal interest of photography in our merchandising for the past 4 years, I was finally granted to have such a real section in the new APM LOG-ON store. If I were to propose such section on day 1, it wouldn't be approved, it would be subjected to a series of scrutiny, inquiry, doubts and attacks, eventually became an unfinished project on corporate earth.
I can't believe we have so many new projects, like we are not supposed to rest. I'm all excited about this new store in APM mall however. Talking about 63 shelves and 2900 products for stationery department, a new photography corner (which I'll talk about in the next post), travel corner, cosmetic, fashion food, gadgets, etc. Every single product in the stationery department was hand picked by our stationery team to compose the whole section, only the best, the funniest and the most efficient products are there (well, I did put dozens of low performers there but they are very nice products and thought people would like to explore). It is soft launched today at noon, press tour will be on 19th May 2009 while it will be officially opened on 20th May 2009.
"Life is like photography, you develop from the negative". What a great quotation I found from one of the felllow voxer's tag line.
I learned from KOLO this new project since last year May's National Stationery Show, a portable travel notebook which combines photo storage and journaling functions using a flexible refill system. As you know, KOLO is almost entirely about photo archiving and presentation, they obviously did a great job to create clean and stylish product lines but most of these products are to be used *afterward*. You select photos, plan layouts, do scrapbooking stuffs, archiving and presenting the final outcome as a decor or sharing with friends and relatives after events. I was extremely excited to see how they would execute this travel notebook idea and come up with a final product, which you can carry with you during travel and making memories on the fly. I had a lot of expectations because bringing archival quality to a product you use everyday inevitably requires a whole new mindset. I mean KOLO can be perfect in their top notch material quality but an object you would use on daily basis subjects to a whole new set of hazardous situations especially when we are talking about travel. What a challenge.
- works well with Polaroids and Instax mini
- portable size but smaller than A5
- pockets to store receipts, tickets, etc
- paper good for roller ball, fountain pen and watercolor
- soft cover to handle bulging contents
- refill notebooks can be filed pleasantly to an album or archive system
- customizable to personal style
- enclosure not intruding front cover
- photo and writing on the same page possible
- clean cover design, tough to resist travel tortures
- archival quality
A trip to Tokyo is always 3 days too short. I was going to Frankfurt and immediately Tokyo from end Jan 09 to early Feb, the trip was so compressed I could hardly breath. Next time I should just take some extra day-offs for myself and meet some friends. Despite economic downturn (-12.7% in Japan!), I still found a lot of great stuffs in Tokyo, perhaps we are only looking at a slow start of a collapse. Interestingly, some company like UNI (Mitsubishi) has an interesting tag line in their internal communication, "We will not participate in recession". How brave and confident, according to source, they did not cut back any R&D expenses because that's the most important investment to them.
I customized this Diana F+ camera for an event called Diana World Tour 2008 organized by Lomography Asia. The event exhibition is currently showing over a hundred Diana and Diana Clone cameras produced from 60's to 70's. I'm honored to be one of the 10 to appear in the Diana Vignettes photo story exhibits.
拿著 car car 的他總帶微笑；微笑的他，嘴總是尖尖的。天真可愛，出外勞碌工幹時想起他，心都軟下來，笑起來。每當回家看到他時他都興奮極地叫 daddy daddy，然後看著我的背包說“你是不是有買 car car 給我呀! 給我看看你的包包啦! 我知你有嘅!”九成時間我都令他失望，但他也是笑著的彈來彈去。
物質充逾，內在更重要，所以我會為他做紙 car car，也玩得一整天。劃幾幅由他主導的畫，看極也看不厭。造了這個俄羅斯公仔，每次一起看了，大家都會微笑。把這些拍下來更有意思，不止紀錄了事實，也紀錄了造這些東西時的心情。
My son is now 3.5 years old, his face literally changes on daily basis. Photos I shot of him a few months ago show a completely different him. I like to take photos him as much as possible, it is not difficult to find surprises and I love the fact that I'm recording his happy childhood we'll treasure a lot in the future. Gradually, this blank piece of paper emerges a character, how do I record his character?
When he holds his "car car" he always smile, when he smiles the tip of his upper lips has a tiny little peak. When I think of his smiles during my business trips my heart would melt and I keep smiling. When I come home he would be so excited shouting "daddy daddy" and often ask "did you buy car car for me? Let me see your bag, I know you have" but 90% of the time I disappointed him, yet he would still be smiling and jumping around in my presence.
Living in this materialistic world, inner self development became much more important. I would make paper cars for him and play for a whole day. Draw a few pictures directed by him and the results are pleasant to look at together. When we look at this Russian doll I painted, there are always smiles. Photos of these not only record objects and facts, but also the precious feelings during the process.
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爸爸喜歡欣賞及收藏中國字畫，也靠它維生。每天都看著他看畫看得入神，想東西想到自得其樂，說起畫時都眉飛色舞。這些都是內函的外在，量度不到也形容不到。我就是被這種內函浸吟著長大的。喜歡了劃畫，攝影，西洋書法...，做了city'super的文具採購已經五年。每天都能把爸爸傳受的內函活出來，已經很精彩，也喜望能對兒子有著相同的啟發。
Dad loves to appreciate and collect Chinese calligraphy and paintings, his interest also became his career. I would see him looking at paintings in deep pleasant thoughts, when he talked about them his eyes brightened. These inner bliss or satisfaction can't be described and measured but I was grown up in such environment without knowing it. I developed interests in drawing/painting, photography and western calligraphy, became a stationery buyer at city'super 5 years ago. I feel tremendous thankfulness for what my Dad passed on to me unintentionally, hope I'll be able to do the same for my son.
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