Driving back from work at 1 AM, I passed this chateau like every evening. But this time it was misty and the house was lit up like some vampire ball was going on… and I had my tripod in the trunk so the picture needed to be taken.

I added the walkway to the door, the lighting (from a shot outside my bedroom window) and the face in Photoshop.

The biggest challenge here was getting the lightning and its effect on the surrounding sky 

 the tree branches which were part of the original shot. The only effective way of doing this was by superimposing the lightning shot in a separate layer and carefully erasing the areas where the branches were underneath.

The face was blended in from a selfie I did on a flatbed scanner (see 

) at a later date for a Halloween contest. Contrary to popular believe, scanning your face in this way does not cause impotence. It does however blind you for several seconds. I've actually done stoopider things to enter a photo contest...

All elements (except of course my scanned face) were shot on Fuji Reala 100 ISO color print film on a Canon EOS-100 SLR. The negatives were scanned to digital on a Canon FS 2710 film scanner.