The suspension bridge in Waco
This is one heck of an awesome bridge!
Do you love bridges? I sure do. They are one of my favorite photographic subjects (and I feel like I say that a lot here on the blog....but there are a lot of things I love to shoot!). There's something about them that just draws me in. You know what I mean?
It is probably a combination of the architecture, the water that they are usually over, and the symbolism they represent to me - a connecting of disparate parts, bringing together separate lands...that sort of thing. I don't know...but they're cool.
Anyways...I was driving to Dallas one day and had the urge to stop in Waco and explore for a few minutes. Waco is not exactly high on anyone's list of places to go shoot (sorry, Waco) but I had seen some pics of this bridge online and knew it was pretty close to the highway, so I figured it would make a quick stop. It did.
It was super easy to get to and I had it entirely to myself, which is how I like things. It was also an incredibly windy day with major clouds and stuff blowing through, as you can see in the pic. Anyways, I shot all around, under and on top of this bridge until I felt like I got everything I wanted.
I love shots like this because there is such a color and texture difference between the bridge and the sky - I just like contrasts like that. I also thought I would share a Before & After sort of thing, which is a screenshot of this photo from when I was working on it in Color Efex Pro. That's the Before on the left, and the After on the right. I haven't shared one of those here in a while - let me know if you want to see these more often, k?
The Waco suspension bridge
A couple of weeks ago, I had to drive up to Dallas for business, and of course my hope was to find a little free time after hours to shoot. Normally I stop in Salado, TX and shoot their City Garage (see the pics here) but the exit was closed for construction, and I am way too hyper restless busy to backtrack and shoot it. Plus, I have shot it several times, and so I set my sights on Waco, TX instead. It turned out pretty good.
I knew there was a cool-looking suspension bridge over the Brazos River, and with a little help from Google Maps and my iPhone, I soon found it and pulled over. It was a crazy windy day so thankfully I wasn’t trying to shoot a bunch of trees or something. That the nice thing about bridges - they’re usually still.
Oh yeah, and there were some awesome clouds that day, too.
iPhone fun in Waco
I drove up to Dallas on Monday this week (from Austin), which means I had to pass through Waco, TX en route. Waco is not a town I would normally stop in, but I had my camera so I decided to check out their suspension bridge which I had seen pics of online. It’s pretty awesome!
I have a thing for bridges anyways, so any excuse to fire some brackets at one works for me. Of course my iPhone is always with me, so I also grabbed a few quick snaps with it as well.
As you can see, had some pretty exciting clouds in the skies...and maybe I went a little heavy on the processing with Snapseed. But, that’s half the fun of it, right? I find with the iPhone I enjoy going past reality on the processing at times. How about you?
When I was leaving the bridge, I took a wrong turn and happened upon a beautiful little church. So, I ventured in there for some more bracketing and iPhone fun as well. I left a couple of $ in their collection box, which the sign indicated was for preservation of the mural. Believe me, the mural is awesome and well worth preserving. Glad I could help!
Thanks for stopping by today!