The nice thing about having a completed photo project to play around with is that you can concentrate on the setting, rather than the content. In many ways, this is more fun, and it's certainly a satisfying way to pass a series of gloomy, rainy days such as we've been having this week. Certain commenters on the Let's Get Lost book (eminent, self-regarding types, in the main, who AFAIK don't read this blog) implied – if fairly discreetly, to the point of deniability – that I was rather better at book-design than at originating photographic material, which may well be a fair comment, even if it has cost them a free copy.
The nice thing about a fantasy book is that it can have different-sized pages for portrait and landscape oriented photographs, which is always a major book-design headache, and one which can only really be overcome by using square pages, or disguised by playing around with the size and placing of the images, which – if done well – can have design benefits, by varying the "rhythm" of the book, and so on. It usually isn't done well, though: for example, I have yet to see a conventionally bound book where splashing pictures across the central "gutter" works to the benefit of the content. Yes, it looked great laid out flat on the screen in InDesign, but is pretty annoying as a 3-D object in the hand.
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