Midweek flashback: Spanish explorations
Bringing all the photos together to capture travel adventures
ALL THE LITTLE DETAILS
When our youngest was little she had a pretty much analogue/screen free childhood other than a stash of CBeebies (Children’s BBC) videos, including a wonderful ‘slow food’ TV information series called ‘Come Outside’ with a theme song that went ‘Look Up, Look Down, Look All Around’.
She was not so little when we were lucky enough to spend much of a European winter in France (swapping our home with that of some Kiwi expats wanting to be back in New Zealand for our summer). Their place was a tiny loft in a fishing village right on the border with Spain, so we spent as much time there as in France.
The lyrics of that song cam back to me as I sat down to write this, and relived the experience through the photobook I made of the trip.
When I travel I really do ‘look up, look down, look all around’ and love taking photos of all the details.
To be honest, the act of spotting the little details and taking the photos doesn’t need an end result - it is enjoyable and has value as an activity in itself.
But I do enjoy knowing that those photos of street scenes, cobbled streets, random statues and pecking pigeons will have a use when I return home and make my printed photobook. And creating these pages with all those details really allows me to relive it (and to make an atmospheric souvenir/ memory book for my daughter)
There’s a video I did not long after our return of how I created one of those pages:
For all of this I used a bundle of two photobook template sets called “Messy Pockets Noted”
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