Refine Refine Refine

I went back and made some changes to the spreads I posted earlier, namely moving text around, resizing and adding in some backgrounds.
I'm on the fence about the background colors. I put them in because I couldn't get the photos to come over across the median enough without losing the main subject matter of the image and I thought that adding in a color from the piece would help bring the composition together. But it might be too much.