Choosing the cover colours was something I spent time over more than I should have white just didn’t seem to work I couldn’t see it working but black matches the images but is it the same shade of black as the images dose that matter is do the images have just one shade of black. I also tried gray as a neutral in-between but that didn’t work at all. Sally mans book has a black cover but the images inside are on white paper I think that works. It would have to be a black matt colour as a gloss just gets very fingerprintey .

The font is something I have also been thinking about I didn’t want it to be to edgy it needed to be smooth and easy to read when small also the colour of the font was something to think about white was to bright so I opted for a grey I am not 100% happy with the grey but other colours seem silly like brown and red I wanted the hole book to be very simple.  And as fine art as I could make it. What would be an idea is to find books with black cover and see what colours they have used and what worked for them.

although i would like the book images to be smaller I think the exhibition images need to be big i don't think you need as many just 2 or 3 I am going to print two to hand in i'm not sure if a3 is going to be to small but a2 is at the top end i don't want price to come in to it but at the same time its a lot on top of the book once you factor in p&p and the price of an archival box it comes to £60 so I think that prhaps a3 might be might be enough to see the quality and i can print bigger for the exhibition.

so I have been writing poems each time we go out and find something  it documents my feelings when i see the animal the state its in ect



text is very important to me and I need to figure out what I am trying to say with the photos.
I have taken them all in the same way with a flash  at night
the photos become dark the further back you look if that makes sense i wanted it to be like fading to blackness like the body shutting down. the flash is all about being quick I'm hoping the death was instant and having tryed out a long exposure it created a different meaning.  the flash just gave it a white light something you asoseate with dying seeing a white flash of light.


so the images are about the impact the car had on the animal i didn't want it to be close but you can see from the images the outline of what's left of the animal i think that's all you need I have looked twords crime scene photographers because they have to document what's in front of them as is. and that's persisly what i wanted to do show the animal in its last resting place as clearly as I could.

I'm not sure how to go about adding in the poems its all about how I felt when I saw the animal do I want people to have that knolage is it too personal are the poems good enough dose it change the meaning. 

my other option is to have the date time location and condition of the animal when found although theses are just cold facts not very interesting 

thinking about it poems could work its about the impacts cars have on animals the death adding a small poem to each image adds another layer of meaning almost giving the animal death an emotion i want people to see the animals death as a bad thing so many animals die on the roads each year adding emotion through words could make the images seem moor human like or is it giving people an emotion to work with when they are viewing the image.

so this is the layout for my half of the book i don't know if this is the final version Bex and I need to spend some moor time together to make are books work together as well as septate.  The poems don't all go with the images but when the book is folded they all work together. I Feel a lot happier that each image has a poem it links the book with Bex as hers is about are experiences on the trips it also adds a voice to each photo. the layout of the poems work well for me I original had the text in block from but it looked to contained.
  I love the font it almost has a type writer feel to it like something you would see in police reports it gives it that crime sceen feel like a murder thats somting i want to keep with in my imagery i want to keep that theam evan if its not completly forensic it needs to have the hint


what dose worrie me is the liking with bex's project dose it have to link?
the images are all about the destruction of man and the emotions i have when finding the animals  are my emotions relevant do they work with the images in the wright way i am still not 100% sure they do look good together but looking good and working well are different things.