bobmac27

ALT This image captures the tall tapered pylon of the Sundial Bridge in Redding, California, USA, at night. I liked the way the spotlight on the left of the frame mirrored the cables that suspend the bridge deck from the pylon. There were some patchy clouds overhead so I shot multiple 10 second exposures from the same camera position and blended them in post production. This gave the effect of an exposure of over a minute in length on the clouds, making them more wispy in appearance while allowing me to keep the visible stars from starting to "trail" as they would have in a single long exposure. On this evening the bridge deck was illuminated with very blue light so I processed the image with a "cool" white balance to accentuate the already prevalent blue tones. The Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay is for pedestrian traffic and was designed by Spanish architect and structural engineer Santiago Calatrava Valls, who's known for bridge designs featuring prominent single leaning pylons such as th

ALT A small, weathered wooden cabin with a pitched roof and plank siding stands alone in a flat, open desert landscape, rendered in black and white. Large, dramatic clouds fill the sky above, including one prominent rounded cumulus cloud near the top left, with streaky, wind-blown clouds spreading across the rest of the frame beneath a hazy band near the horizon. The flat, sparse ground stretches to the horizon on all sides of the small structure. Photographed in the Smoke Creek Desert, Lassen County, California.