Morning fog on the bridge

 

 

 

 

 

Sun lit foot bridge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under the Under Construction Bridge

 

 

 

 

 

Turkey Run State Park: The Suspension Bridge

Here are a couple of elements of the suspension bridge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mick

While hiking a few weeks ago I found this padlock locked to some fencing attached to an old metal bridge. It was the Davis Ferry Bridge. This bridge also has a Facebook Page. Hmmm.

Does this lock have some meaning or is it just random weirdness?

 

 

 

 

Black and White Photography, Part 3

 

Its time to wrap up this multipart article. What better way to that than to end it with some monochrome photo's from my last trip to Turkey Run State Park. But first the tea of the day.

 

 

These first two photo's show another example of what did not work well in monochrome. The bule sky behind the birds in the color photo looks very beautiful. But in monochrome it looks very dull.

 

 

 

This set of photo's I like both in monochrome and color, There is enough variance in light, shade and texture to make the monochrome photo look nice. The lose of the bright green from the color does not harm the monochrome photo.

 

 

These next two photo's are equally uninteresting. I was trying to capture the imposing nature of these rock formations. As always when I have tried this I have I failed. I have read somewhere that zoom lens's will "flatten" an image. I have never been sure what this meant. Maybe that is what they were talking about. The depth of the photo has been flattened out making the rocks seem smaller and less imposing than they were in real life. Next time I will try shooting with my 50mm prime lens. That might keep the image from being flattened. Also I recently purchased an adaprer that makes regular len's into Wide Angle lens's. Since it only cost $12.00 I am sure it won't make a big diference but maybe it will help. That adapter and a couple of macro adapters will the subject of a future article.

 

 

 

I will end this article with my two favorite photo's from this trip. I think the monochrome and color photo worked well. The lines of the wooden bridge and the curves of the suspension wires lead the eye down the path. It would have been better if the shadow had not been cast on the wooden part of the bridge and the background foliage is a little too dark. But I still enjoy the photos

 

 

Well what I have learned about monochrome photography is that I need to avoid broad area's of a single color like a blue sky or brown river water. What seems to make a beter monochrome photo is area's of contrasting light levels and textures. These things draw more attention in monochrome photo.

I now have another tool I need to keep in mind during my photograpgy sessions.

Some Bits and Bobs

Here are few photographs I have taken over the last few weeks. Some emerging greenery along the river, some flowers, tree seed pods and a spider.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More photo's from Turkey Run State Park

Here are a few photos from my last trip to Turkey Run State Park.

Wedge Rock

These stairs were cut in the side of the canyon to help hikers get past the flowing water when it gets too high.

 

I like photographing textures, lines and curves, and contrasts between light and dark. This next photo is a texture shot. I think it qualifies as "Minimalist Photography". I have been taking pictures like this before I knew it was a category of photography style. I think this is something I would like to pursue more. I am still looking for my "voice" in photography.

Tree bark

This steel cable is part of the suspension bridge that spans Sugar Creek.

 

 

The Wabash is overflowing again

 

The Wabash River is overflowing again due to some heavy rain we had a few days before the weekend. So I was not able to hike the trails because they were under water. After the weekend the Wabash started to go back down, but it rain some more and it is going backup up. It is supposed to peak in the the next couple of days. More likely the hiking trails will still be under water this weekend as well.

I was able to take a few interesting shots around the bridges this weekend. But first here are a few photo's from the week before.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now some photo's from last weekend. I was walking along and under the three bridges that pass over the Wabash in the downtown area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The post not about Icebergs

On my Saturday hike (8 miles) I photographed a large quantity of ice chunks scattered along the trail left over from the freezing of the river. I was going to call this post "Iceburgs along the Wabash". Or something clever like that.

But I encountered two problems. One was that most of the hike was along a tributary of the Wabash river called Burnett's Creek. The other problem was that almost all of the photo's came out CRAPPY! It was an overcast gloomy day, I was very gloomy and the pictures were very boring.

I did manage to take a few pictures that are moderately suitable for publishing. My favorite one is the water drops hitting the water. But that was a heavily cropped photo, so it is blurrier than I would have preferred.

I really wish this winter would end. It has greatly effected my mood this year. Life is kinda sucking right now and this long, cold snowy winter is not helping. It will be 60 degrees today and tommorrow. Then 5-8 inches of snow are being predicted this Wednesday.

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring a different part of the Wabash Heritage Trail

Destination: Exploring a different part of the Wabash Heritage Trail
Miles hiked: 9
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX 18-55MM 1:3-5.6 GII

Today I was just trying out a different part of the trail. I started at a new park called Trailhead Park. Driving to this park instead of walking from home to the trail allows me to go further on the trail. I have only been on this part of the trail once this year. That's when I walked from my home, to the trail, all the way to the north end of the trail at Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, and then back part of the way to the Davis Ferry Park. That was a 17 mile hike. My longest recorded hike so far.

This is the "quickest" way to the the Buried Cars of yesterdays post. I did not time it but it may only be 30 - 45 minutes to the cars from Trailhead Park.

Here are a few photo's from the trail

A random picnic table a the side of the trail

Wood fungus

An interesting two armed tree. This is the left side

And here is the right side

Some rusting iron work from the old Davis Ferry Bridge

And a little more with a spider web.