The Susquehanna River Bridge is a innovative bridge type — known as the precast concrete segmental bridge the six-lane signature bridge cross’s the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg The structure would become the first major vehicular bridge in Pennsylvania to employ segmental design and construction. In segmental construction, precast concrete “box” sections are manufactured at a concrete plant located at or near the construction site and linked together to form a structure. Precast bridge pier sections are stacked one […]
For those unfamiliar with the Light Painting technique – You have decided on a subject to light paint. 1) Mount your camera on a tripod. 2) Compose and Focus. 3) Okay now the magic begins turn all of the lights off. 4)Take a 8 to 30 second exposure and paint one piece of your subject and repeat till you have painted all the pieces. This image I made around 30 exposures. 5) Down load your images to Lightroom or Adobe […]
Click to see image full size Ice on the Susquehanna River in morning light.
Sun rise on a cold January morning along the Susquehanna River.
Trying to be creative I decided to go and shoot the underside of the Susquehanna River Bridge with my 600mm lens. The next few posts will be images that I made that morning. The Susquehanna River Bridge carries interstate 76 (Pennsylvania Turnpike) cross the Susquehanna River between dolphin and York County.
It was raining when I picked up my friend Larry at 6:15am. We weren’t sure where we were headed. Larry suggested the old mill in Mount Joy. He thought the lights would look good reflecting in the wet streets. By the time we got there the rain had stopped the sky was starting to get a little color. We maybe had 10 minutes of shooting with nice colors in the sky before the Sun came up and it clouded over. […]