Worth1000.com - Monster Hoax

Advanced photoshop competition for the website worth1000.com
It had been awhile since i submitted anything and i had some free time.
This topic was about making those elusive bigfoot evidence photo’s you always see, but this time its real!
Any fictitious monster you like, but it must have been been claimed to be real at some point in history.
I choose dragons. I took an everyday sky shot i found from my own personal collection and started by enhancing the clouds. I dropped in a black silhouette of a flying dragon and toyed with layer styles, visibility and blur until i got a desired look. I masked out the part where the sky was showing. Then using the same mask, filled in those areas with dragon skin i borrowed from lizards/ alligators and bats.
The result was a dragon that was trying to stay out of sight in the clouds, but when the sun hit down, it exposed his terrifying shadow in the clouds.