Chesapeake Aerial Book – Final Design meeting and layout
Cover layout
Thank you page with an image of Steve Bussman preflighting his Hughes 500 before an early morning winter shoot in Southern Maryland.
Rough layout of a few of the pilots I have flown with for this book.
A spread in the Upper Bay chapter showing the Susquehanna near its confluence with the western Branch.
Ace designer Alex Diaz.
Yesterday Alex Diaz, Greg Glaviano and I met to finalize the layout and image selection for the book. I nixed eight spreads and added six new ones from recent shoots. We have an incredible design with a elegant type treatment and a mix of double truck, full page and mixed sized images. The book covers the complete Chesapeake Bay Watershed starting at the headwaters of the Susquehanna and continuing to the mouth of the bay. I shot every major river system in the bay plus the islands, marshes and cities of the watershed. There are quite a few abstract aerials that will hopefully delight the viewer plus images with great impact. The earliest image was shot on Kodachrome and the most recent was shot two weeks ago on a D3x in Pennsylvania.
Goal is for shipment to the printer in early April with delivery of final copies in May. A pre-order site is being set-up and the first one-hundred copies of the book will include a signed and numbered print.