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Bluffers Park Bridge


I've shot this scene many times over the past several years. I've yet to come up with an image that is satisfying to me. The light was very strong coming in from the left.

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Re: Bluffers Park Bridge


It is nice Steven, and I can see where you are coming from - the strong light makes for a lot of confusion, not helped by the bare, young foliage. I like it, but you are right, it doesn't quite satisfy.
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Re: Bluffers Park Bridge


The question is will it ever make a satisfying photograph? A bridge joins two places together so what does this bridge join? It joins me, the viewer to something that I can neither see nor imagine therefore, I have no reason to cross the bridge. Perhaps what is needed is to give the viewer some reason to make the journey.

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Norm, the "journey" is the scene itself. The old fashion bridge with the beautiful cliffs looming in the background, I think the scene is exquisite, it's the photographer that is lacking.

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Re: Bluffers Park Bridge


quote:

StevenZ wrote:

Norm, the "journey" is the scene itself. The old fashion bridge with the beautiful cliffs looming in the background, I think the scene is exquisite, it's the photographer that is lacking.



Maybe the photographer is standing in the wrong place. What about if he were some way along the bridge? Steven, you know the area but I suspect that most viewers do not. I only have your word that the cliffs are beautiful and the scene is exquisite. However, you have chosen to make the bridge the main object of your photograph therefore, to me, the cliffs are purely part of the background.

I am sure that there must be a photograph there but I am not sure what it should show.

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Re: Bluffers Park Bridge


I think the bridge itself is the invitation to make the journey and I'm intrigued to find out what is on the other side as well as to get nearer the cliffs.

For me, the composition could be improved by cropping both sides to remove the start of the bridge rails and thus putting the viewer on the bridge as though having paused to take in the view. As always though almost everyone will take something different from the picture. A very nice image nonetheless Steven.

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