Tilghman Creek in the fall.
Bird’s Eye View
On a November day in 2020, Annapolis photographer Jay Fleming hitched a ride on a small plane flying over Talbot County, timing his trip to capture peak fall foliage. “The meandering shoreline of Tilghman Creek, where it leads out to Eastern Bay, drew me to the scene,” he notes. “The Chesapeake Bay is incredibly dynamic. There is so much happening—I will never run out of new material to photograph.” Fleming documents the environment and communities on the Chesapeake’s last two inhabited offshore islands in Island Life, a 280-page book scheduled for a November 2021 release. Photo: Jay Fleming