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The Back Story
This was a morning of major significance as it marked the second day that we were on the road at the very beginning of our Great Australian Road Trip.
The day before, we had explored Albany and the boys realised that they actually enjoyed being tourists although we were all rather uncomfortable as we had very little in the way of camping gear with us apart from some sleeping bags.
The raw file of the background photograph is nowhere near as spectacular as it appears here, but I was inspired to crank up the saturation and light levels after seeing the automatically generated Google® version … the addition of a paint stroke saturation overlay angled across the page added emphasis to the light of the sun rising and reflecting from the water, of the new day, new beginnings, which is exactly what was happening for us as a family.
Post-Processing & Photo Manipulations
Desaturating the photograph of my sons as they were kayaking adds non-competitive differentiation between the focal points of the page and the use of minimalist elements keeps things calm in keeping with the calm feeling of peace emanating from the background photo.
Journaling
I wanted to keep this layout very much focused on the sunrise photograph, and so I opted not to include any journaling on this page.
As an aside: My sons used to have a kayak each that they both loved to paddle in the marina waters down at the “Kayak Beach” as we used to call it. They have both well and truly outgrown those kid’s sized kayaks and now we need adult size versions. These kayaks are on our family Wishlist. 
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Layout Credits
- Anita Richards Designs: Unreleased photo frame and tags; sketchPLATE No.0001; and, Books are Golden Collection (to be remastered) bling, flower, glitter heart, stitching.
- Font: Bradley Hand ITC.
- Photographs: Anita Richards.
Additional Resources for this Layout
Podcast Show Notes: The sketchPLATE Saturday Show Episode 0001
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