2009-03-15-350 v1 Blenheim Grand Bridge from Rosamunds Well
***May 14th Thanks everyone for your most kind comments!***
A view of the Grand Bridge in the Blenheim Palace Grounds. Normally I take photos of the bridge from a more elevated view point, but the car park was very busy on this day, and the cars were intruding into the picture, so I came down to lake level to hide the cars. As it happens I think it's worked quite well, I liked the cloud hovering over the bridge and creating a nice reflection.
The Grand Bridge was a part of Vanbrugh's original scheme for the palace and its grounds; it wasn't completed as intended; there was to have been a gallery and another storey. When constructed there was no lake, the bridge crossed an ornamental canal, the lake was created 50 years after the bridge was built by 'Capability' Brown. He flooded the cellars of the bridge when he created the lake; it is difficult now to imagine the bridge without the lake.
The light wasn't the very best as there was this layer of thin high cloud; I've increased the saturation on the sky to compensate for this.
17.5.2009 Thanks again everyone for your many kind comments. I thought it would be worth re-visiting this image and doing a bit more editing; previously, (partly because I was in a hurry) I didn't split off the layers; this time I had separate sky, lake, and 'ground' layers, and I edited the colours and saturation separately in each one. I think the bridge colour has greatly improved in this second edit.
2009-03-15-350 v1 Blenheim Grand Bridge from Rosamunds Well
***May 14th Thanks everyone for your most kind comments!***
A view of the Grand Bridge in the Blenheim Palace Grounds. Normally I take photos of the bridge from a more elevated view point, but the car park was very busy on this day, and the cars were intruding into the picture, so I came down to lake level to hide the cars. As it happens I think it's worked quite well, I liked the cloud hovering over the bridge and creating a nice reflection.
The Grand Bridge was a part of Vanbrugh's original scheme for the palace and its grounds; it wasn't completed as intended; there was to have been a gallery and another storey. When constructed there was no lake, the bridge crossed an ornamental canal, the lake was created 50 years after the bridge was built by 'Capability' Brown. He flooded the cellars of the bridge when he created the lake; it is difficult now to imagine the bridge without the lake.
The light wasn't the very best as there was this layer of thin high cloud; I've increased the saturation on the sky to compensate for this.
17.5.2009 Thanks again everyone for your many kind comments. I thought it would be worth re-visiting this image and doing a bit more editing; previously, (partly because I was in a hurry) I didn't split off the layers; this time I had separate sky, lake, and 'ground' layers, and I edited the colours and saturation separately in each one. I think the bridge colour has greatly improved in this second edit.