Rejected Images For Music Magazine Double Page Spread:

I really wanted to use this image, but the dark red made most colours very difficult to use. Neither white not black title seemed to fit with the image, and any text which would be written around the image would be forced to change colour when it reached the treeline in the bottom right. Which I was hesitant to do so chose not to.

This second image is the same place, the same pose, but with colour left in the image. I eventually chose the black and white version because I wanted there to be no connotations of hope left in the image for a page called 'Apocalypse'

This image was a close up of the same place and person. I preferred this as an image because of the shadowing on the persons face which masked identity and implied hostility.
However, the image did not clearly show the abandoned bomb shelter and so did not engage as well with the title of 'Apocalypse'

As a different take I thought about using an image without a person in the scene. However that lost the idea of a band album to me, as often even the stranger band albums keep a person (or resemblance) of a person on their cover. I also realized that due to the shades of the image, writing around it could become quite difficult.