Spectacle! Weaknesses

An area of weakness within my book, Spectacle!, could be my left pages all of which contain only one photo and a colored space around them.

One way of changing this would be to have more than one color square. Each spread would use two colors out of a possible three. I also shrunk down each image on the left page so that the border would have a consistent minimum space.

Using bands instead of squares.

After working up a sequence of using the squares and the bands I lowered the opacity of the colors so that they wouldn't compete with the focus for the main image.

After working and tweaking around with the left page I have found my book to be a lot more cohesive while it better portrays the qualities of a circus.