It was a very sunning day, great temps, with clouds and some winds.
While taking this picture, standing in the water, I felt something brush across my foot.
Not thinking about it too much, I continued to shoot, thinking it was just some leaves or a small twig, but it persisted, and when I looked down, it was a small cray fish!
Sheeder-Hall Covered Bridge (Exterior Long View Up Creek) 002
Gotta love nature!
From this location, I moved up-stream, and was able to capture these images.
Sheeder-Hall Covered Bridge (Exterior Long View Down Creek) HDRSheeder-Hall Covered Bridge (Exterior Low View) 048
From there, I moved back to the road.
I setup the last shoot, and it took longer then expected because of all the traffic!
I stopped at the nearby Target to pickup some quick supplies, and then jumped in the car, and started up the GPS.
A day or two earlier, I had spent some time on Google Maps and my Reference sites, entering in GPS coordinates.
After everything was up and running, I looked up the nearest bridge, and Larkin’s was the first on the list.
As I headed North on Route 100 from the Route 113 intersection (Uwchlan Ave), without issue, but as I followed the GPS, I quickly found that the map on the GPS, was not up to date, and I first ended up doing a circle.
On the second try, I looked at the roads, and used the GPS as a guide, and finally made it to the bridge.
I pulled over as close to the bridge as possible, and grabbed my gear.
I free-handed this shot…
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (Information plaque) 001
Larkin’s does not have car or truck access, and can only be crossed via foot or bicycle, which made it all the more easy to photograph.
So I broke out the tripod, and was easily able to capture this…
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (Interior View) 01
From here, I stepped back some, and got this long view…
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (Long Exterior View) 018
I moved to the other side of the bridge, to where the cat o’ nine tails are growing, looked back and captured this…
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (cat o’ nine tails) 060
Moving back to my car, I decided to go again go underneath the bridge…
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (Underneath) 084
in this image, notice the detail of the bird’s nest.
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (Bird Nest Detail) 098
I finished up, and got to my car, packed up, and headed on.
Lightroom 3 has been out for about a month now, after being having many of it core components rewritten from the ground up over the past two years, and it shows.
In general, the application is quicker at most common tasks, and can greatly hence most images that it comes in contact with.
Already, I have been able to breath new life in several images because of the enhanced noise reduction algorithms, on images that were shoot with a high ISO speed!
Another area that I have been really taken advantage of, is the built in Publishing Service for Flickr.
In the previous version, one would have to export the desired files, and then bring them into Flickr.
With LR3, after you have connected to Flickr, you just export!
There is no need to create an additional set of files, which saves time and disk space!
Over the course of the long weekend, I have been able to publish many new images to Flickr with great easy, and I invite you to take a look at my Photostream!
There are a ton of new features that have been added or enhanced, and I plan on using and commenting in the future, so stay tuned!
