Approach: tourist/travel photography (hero image test)

An A/B test on the hero-image aesthetic direction. The live destination pages are shot in a reportage lens (news photographer on assignment, mid-action, present-tense). This page tests a different lens: tourist/travel photography – the visual language of a travel-guide spread, the kind of image that reads “I want to visit there” or “postcard home.” Same fourteen destinations, generated fresh under the alternate direction.

Point of the test: does the warm-brown / sepia palette bias that the reportage batch was pulling in from Gemini’s documentary training data lift when the instruction lands in a different visual-language pocket entirely? Read them side by side with the live destination pages to decide.