Bridge Of Light
I'm still on Maple Dam Road in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with this blog post. In my previous blog post, I shared with you the beautiful golden color of a quiet Monday Morning Sunrise. In this post, I am sharing a brief moment of directional light on an otherwise moody Sunday evening.
Most of that Sunday afternoon was cloudy with a featureless grey sky - not exactly great for photography. I was debating back and forth in my head about whether I should stay out in the landscape or pack it in and go home. Going home was the easy choice... staying out in boring light was the right choice!
I scouted the few roads in this sparsely inhabited area, really enjoying the quiet landscape, and wished unreasonably for a burst of orange sunset color as the day ended. I didn't get exactly what I wished for, but I enjoyed a gift of soft directional light from a thinning of the clouds on the horizon as I approached this low bridge over Coles Creek at the end of the day. I had to work fast before the light faded. And I positioned the bridge right on the horizon line to give an impression of the bridge holding up the heavy, cloudy, evening sky.
The light didn't last long, but it lasted long enough to allow me to make this image which perfectly summed up the day. And it is a reminder every time I see it to "stay out there" - you never know what you will get.