My website uses landscape images for featured posts. Selfishly, my books are portrait-shaped.
That creates a problem: how do you photograph a portrait object in a landscape frame without loads of dead space?
My old design teacher would probably say that empty space, used well, adds emphasis. And he’d be right. But unfortunately, I’m the one solving this problem and I have impulse-buying tendencies to justify.
So I started photographing my books next to random objects from around the bookshelf, the house and beyond.
It fills the frame more neatly, offers a glimpse into the inner workings of my troubled mind and gives my inanimate objects their moment in the spotlight. It also justifies me buying even more tat online. Because now this tat has purpose.
Meet the book club…
Wizard-frog
Wizard-frog is what you get when you combine a child’s mind, an adult’s salary and a Temu account. I will fight anybody who thinks their life cannot be improved by a wizard-frog.
Tom, Dick and Harry
A Britishism to describe ordinary, random, or unspecific people – they could be anyone, but I like to think of them as the Tom, Dick and Harry from the masterful Rowan Atkinson sketch.
The Librarian
Ook! If you know, you know. GNU Terry Pratchett.
Yusuf
I was tired. I work in marketing. The default creative direction in these instances is alliteration. Meet Yusuf… the Yak. Won from a grabbing machine in Chessington World of Adventure. Likes yams.
Sonic & Tails
Rock-steady pillars of my childhood. Won in a grabbing machine about 25 years after my childhood ended.
Glyphs & Graphs 