A Bridge Too Far

Posted Sun May 7, 2006 in Photography

I’ve been thinking about an image for this week’s Photo Scavenger Hunt for several days. I really didn’t know what to do, but came up with a couple of ideas.

I kicked them around with Wife, but we never came to a consensus. Yesterday was rainy and cloudy and this morning wasn’t any better. Late this afternoon, though, while I was working in my study, I noticed that the light warmed and knew that the sun had broken through the clouds for at least a little while. I also knew that I’d be on the road again tomorrow and that I might not have a good opportunity to find something interesting to make an image.

I snagged Wife and we drove over to the Best Buy parking lot. I made a few images of the Loop 289 overpass over Spur 327. The light was not bad. This image is one I liked from that lot. I like the fact that there are several vehicles in the image.

I also decided to drive over to U.S. 84 south from town. I knew I could climb the abutment and make a diagonal image from that vantage point. The light wasn’t as good by the time we made it to the intersection of 114^th Street, but the graphic was still interesting, so I made a few images and chose one of them for this week’s entry in the scavenger hunt.

It wasn’t an easy choice for me to make. I really like the colors of the long view of the Loop 289 overpass better than the U.S. 84 overpass. But, the visual components of the U.S. 84 image seem a little stronger to me. The Loop 289 image looks a little flat because of the telephoto compression.

Still, it was a fun exercise and a good excuse to get out and make a few images. I put together an album of my scavenger hunt images and it’s posted on my gallery here.