Silver Jubilee Bridge from Widnes side (4 of 4)
Widnes, Cheshire 161223
As I explained yesterday, I hadn’t intended doing any photography, but on my way home from Runcorn the sky was changing rapidly. I changed my plan and drove to the Catalyst Centre car park near Switch Island, then I walked, rapidly, down to the riverbank at the foot of the Silver Jubilee Bridge. All the time I feared that I would be too late. It’s true that I missed some of the best of that sunset and, as I arrived, another photographer was just packing away his gear.
I set-up my tripod and attached my camera. I wasn’t sure as I did this that my 23mm f/2 lens would be wide enough to feature the full width of the bridge, but I was pleasantly surprised. I tried a number of angles, noticing as I moved, that the lighting of the bridge kept changing. I tried a couple of shots to include the Moon and the church spire, high above the far, Runcorn, bank of the Mersey, but because these were 8-seconds or so shots, the movement of the Moon fattened the image in camera.
Silver Jubilee Bridge from Widnes side (4 of 4)
Widnes, Cheshire 161223
As I explained yesterday, I hadn’t intended doing any photography, but on my way home from Runcorn the sky was changing rapidly. I changed my plan and drove to the Catalyst Centre car park near Switch Island, then I walked, rapidly, down to the riverbank at the foot of the Silver Jubilee Bridge. All the time I feared that I would be too late. It’s true that I missed some of the best of that sunset and, as I arrived, another photographer was just packing away his gear.
I set-up my tripod and attached my camera. I wasn’t sure as I did this that my 23mm f/2 lens would be wide enough to feature the full width of the bridge, but I was pleasantly surprised. I tried a number of angles, noticing as I moved, that the lighting of the bridge kept changing. I tried a couple of shots to include the Moon and the church spire, high above the far, Runcorn, bank of the Mersey, but because these were 8-seconds or so shots, the movement of the Moon fattened the image in camera.