CABLES

This was my second shot for the BAPC assignment "Intersection" submitted last Thursday night.

FRED HARTMAN BRIDGE

This shot of the Fred Hartman Bridge was one of my entries in the Bay Area Photo Club of Clear Lake's Honors Night assignment "After Dark".  The image was well reviewed by the judges and was given a Gold award.

Sunset at the Hartman Bridge

I shot this sunset from Evergreen road yesterday evening. I used on camera flash to pop the sunflowers in the foreground and added a little texture to the scene.

Brazos River Trestle

I shot this old Brazos River train trestle near West Columbia, TX this past weekend.

Santa Rosa, NM Train Trestle

This is a late 1920's era Union Pacific Railroad train trestle in Santa Rosa, NM. It's a handheld three exposure HDR with my Olympus E-3 and 12-60 lens.

Bridge Cables

The Fred Hartman Bridge is a double-diamond cable suspended bridge that spans the Houston Ship Channel between the cities of Baytown and La Porte in Harris County Texas. It’s a very heavily traveled bridge so stopping to take a photograph on the bridge is not necessarily the best of ideas. Unfortunately neither is snapping a shot of the cables while you’re driving at 65 MPH but we do what we must for our craft, right?

I like the perspective in the photo, emphasized by the converging lines of the cables. I also like the way the bright yellow cables pop against the blue sky and the geometric pattern they create. To me it’s a simple straight forward shot, no story here – just a pleasing aesthetic.

I took the shot with my Panasonic Lumix Super Zoom in aperture priority mode at f3.6 and 1/1000th at ISO 200. The focal length was a 35mm equivalent 80mm.