Crane Bridge Fisheye

Utterly depressing weather forecast, with rain moving in in a few hours time and will last days - so it was early out to Salisbury's Crane Bridge, which I'd tried to photograph before, at night.

It's not named after the river it crosses, which is the Avon, but after a prominent house located nearby. The road that goes over this 4 span stone medieval structure (original parts date from 13th century) is Crane Bridge Road and is used by local traffic to get to the Railway Station. The bridge has been widened in the 19th century, where they dismantled the further side, filled in the middle and then rebuilt it.

It's a lovely looking bridge and the fisheye has uglified its clean lines - but - using it allowed to place the camera literally on the stone bank's edge with the lens overhanging and to shoot right through the nearest arch. Though it was possible to see 'daylight' the other side, I was fairly amazed how the long exposure revealed so much detail in this area.

I had to darken the slab nearest the camera and sky/outside river areas but selectively lighten shadow parts.

I certainly want to do more shots of this bridge, at night - a tripod square on is impossible unless one wades into the actual flowing water and a long shot from the path that goes along the far bank is OK but the bridge is actually very busy with people and traffic, even at night. One, with traffic 'trails' would be good to try, sometime, though.

Make the most of what sunshine you get today folks and have a great, peaceful and Blippingly wonderful Sunday. I have the flat inspector coming Tuesday morning so some effort at least at making this tip look less like a tip is very much on my mind.

Thanks, as ever, to all who hoisted the Rapeseed field Blip up into the Spotlight yesterday.

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Lens is Nikkor 16mm f2.8 on full-frame D700