I’ve had my current passport for several years so even though I knew that passports got a new look, I had no idea how different it was…or ugly!!! I recently added visa pages to mine which, unlike the older, plain blue versions, are purple and contain loud and often dark images. I guess they are more detailed to make counterfeiting harder but some of the pictures are so big and invasive I don’t know how you’ll read the visas that get stamped on top of them. Take the picture above; how clear do you think a stamp put in the water area is going to be? I know a passport is purely an I.D. that is seen by few others, but I enjoy looking through my visa stamps when I travel and I think these pages, taped in crookedly I might add, are a bit of an eye sore.