Dipping into my Fall photos to start work on a trip book about our October birding expedition to the Chesapeake Bay area. Text reads: "The drive out to Elliott Island (population 50) takes you through miles of deserted Fishing Bay Conservation Lands and there's a vibe that hovers between God's Country and 'Deliverance'. It was just us and the birds, including great blue herons that glared at us from abandoned nests, flocks of egrets, and this greater yellowlegs crossing the flooded road in front of us. It got weird at times but this turned out to be one of our favorite Eastern Shore explorations."

I wanted the layout to have a dramatic, slightly haunted feeling, which required dramatizing my terribly blurry and washed out photo (snapped from the front seat of the car). I was able to accomplish depth and darkening by adding various Artsy Papers from the Coastline APP to the layer stack, experimenting with different blend modes, and then using layer masks to clean up any bits I wasn't crazy about