See The Falls... In Fall

So I had a project in my Photoshop class that calls for us making a travel poster about a local community, using our own pictures. I'm no photographer, and, after the fact, I was very disappointed to discover that my pictures weren't nearly large enough to fill the background of a 11 by 17 inch, 150 dpi poster. As much as it hurt me to scale up an image to fit, which is a HUGE no-no, I've managed to draw attention away (thanks to darkening the background, adding saturation, and blurring the result to make it look intentional), and, I must say, the final result turned out surprisingly well. I'm fairly pleased, considering I went in with no idea what I was doing and made it in about an hour.