These are the "Twin Bridges" in Latham, New York. It's where the Northway crosses the Mohawk River. The vantage point is on a road, but part of the road I frequent as it is a connector road on the very nice Mohawk Hudson Bike path, a 50 mile or so rail trail (with some breaks, requiring connecting roads, such as here.
Thanks everyone for an incredible week. The first few scores that came in were low, making me wonder, but then it climbed up and stayed above 7 all week!
Thanks again!
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3/26/2007: new to site & just cruising..when I did my residency @AMCH, I think we (especially my husband, coming down from VT) drove those bridges 1000 times-what a great perspective! Really good shot!
I grew up in the Capitol district and recognized these bridges right away. You did them an incredible justice in this photograph. Belated congrats on this beautiful photo.
Hmmm...interesting now that I look back and see the vote I gave this shot. I do like it very much. I know exactly where you were standing when taking this picture. I drive over the Twin Bridges quite frequently. I guess my problem was originally I was so captured by your perspective that I completely missed the triangles. All I saw was the humps. If I could take back my vote I would. I am glad you took a ribbon for this. Very nice work!
Congrats on your first ribbon. It is a beautiful shot. That Google maps satellite linking using natural language input for searching is really cool. I'd never seen that before.
Congratulations. You have truly earned this ribbon. Your image was my favorite for this challenge. Loud Kudos from Jersey City and may you feel the uplift of this reward to carry you further into this art. Again, congratulations on your RED.
Why bridges win here so often is an interesting question; but you have done nothing to stop that precedence. Your designs, colors and balance all work to make a fine composition. Nice to see someone not bound by (tympani roll here) the gods-ordained "Rule Of Thirds!!!!" You are one I pick to ribbon.
Quite an impressive show for this challenge. Great colors. Returning for final bump. Gas to the pedal: you have my ten! No more compelling image in this challenge.
Exceptionally well composed image. High technical quality. If there is any fault at all, it is that there is a large amount of black on the left side of the image and it has a red hue.
At first glance, this picture seemed to have too much black in it, so I looked at it a bit longer. It grew on me and I do like the picture a lot now, it must the a combination of colour, shape and contrast. Funny isn't it, how you can change your mind like that?
Beautiful colors and backlighting. Nice framing, maybe a little too much black on the right side (which would mean trimming the left as well to keep centered composition). 7
Although I think that the triangles might not be "clearly shown as a key element" (to me, the arches and background colours form the key elements), I still consider this to be a great shot and worthy of a top 10 spot. Well done.
This will do well in Silhouette, I like this and I see where you are going with the triangle. I think other may not be as obliging. Anyway this is one of my top 10
One of the first wow pictures of this challenge-vote round for me, and it's very striking. I like the shifting color tones a lot, and the reddish tint on the right side is very evocative in terms of mood. I can't help but think that this would also have scored well with me in the upcoming silhouette challenge. If there were complaints to be made, I'd say the tuft of cloud and little flare on the upper left, and the reflection on the water surface, which could have been burned in some more. But alas, it's basic edit, and given the parameters, I'll still score this my first 10 of the challenge. Thanks.
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