I am pleased with my final piece, I have produced a scrapbook/photo album of holiday photos of my chosen destinations of Jersey and Thailand. My concept is of the journey of these two places in the world of tourism and economic incline. I focused on how Thailand has taken a pathway of in the short-term a success as after the tsunami they managed to get back on the horse and rebuild their lives, but in the long term their argent need to return to normal life has destroyed their once bespoke and isolated scenery, now all it is a tourism feeding ground, the sustainability of their pathway ceases to exist. Whereas Jersey’s plan, although we are running out for houses to provide for people we are thinking of our landscape on the coast and the importance of it’s preservation. My concept hasn’t always been clear, at the start I was steering towards the idea of time, then I thought about the concept of travelling, with led me to my final concept. Overall the theme of ‘journeys and pathways’ is a reasonably broad area and I found it could be easily linked landscapes, which is ideal for Jersey, so I went on my fourth photo shoot to my favorite beach and the most popular tourist destination, St Brelades Bay. Even before knowing the theme I wanted to explore landscape, as I hadn’t done any to my best standard throughout the duration of the coursework as it was focused on abstract and portrait. I took my first inspiration from Mark Powers when it came to my Jersey photos as I wanted the focus to be on the sea and how powerful it is in its looks and movement, but then as I progressed I veered away from Power’s ideas of how dependent people are on the ‘shipping forecast’ and more into how the people of Jersey are dependent on it’s beaches and weather because it’s our islands main marketing point for tourism, which is a huge sector in our economy. When taking my photos in Thailand I took inspiration from my case study photographer, Andrew Quilty and how he took photos in artificial lighting rather than the sun and I wanted to do this as a contrasting point to my Jersey photos which are in completely natural lighting from the sun. As well as that I wanted to highlight like Quilty the culture in the country I was photographing and how it’s completely different to ours. For instance how night life for locals is so important, it’s the time when you get the most customers, as it is when it’s cool enough to actually be away for air conditioning. Night markets in particular are very popular, where fakes, food and merchandise are sold, to locals these stalls may be their only source of income, which supports my concept that Thailand is overwhelmingly reliant on tourism. My editing process could have been made more complex if I were to have done it again but I feel that overall the simplicity of it worked well with my final display as it looked like genuine holiday photos a person would print off. I did go through problems when editing my photos as it was pointed out to me that although the photos were clear on my computer, they won’t be as bright when printed off, so I had to rethink my selection process and also consider the images with reasonable amounts of light in order to have the best outcome when in print form. This meant that I had to experiment a lot with exposure and brightness and I found it challenging to be able to keep the quality of the photo as well as increasing exposure, but I worked around it to create 12 final outcomes for my Thailand night photo shoot. If I were to have more time I maybe would have looked more in depth into Thailand and how it affected the people who leaved their and their personal accounts of what they had to go through to get back on their feet. In conclusion, I am happy with my final outcome and the concept I have based it on and in my opinion the theme the exam board set was very ideal for me and I found it enjoyable to come up with a concept and execute it.