Holz-Brucke

We visited the beautiful town of Frankenmuth Michigan this summer.  If you’re not familiar with it, you’re missing out.  Not only is this town a great spot designed and modeled after a German village, it has a number of wonderful restaurants.  As part of the village, they have a covered bridge called the Holz-Brucke (Wooden Bridge).  Unfortunately, while we were there, they were repairing the sidewalk near the bridge so I couldn’t get a good shot of it from the outside. 

 

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Ebenezer

1, 2, 3….quick post tonight….here we go.   This beautiful bridge is in Washington County Pennsylvania.  It is unclear when this popular bridge was built…..let’s just say a very long time ago.  It originally crossed the south fork of Maple Creek near Ginger Hill.  It was moved to its current spot in Mingo Creek Park in 1977.  It is a Queenpost design bridge.  Washington County PA has over twenty of these historic covered bridges spread across the county.   All of them are cool in their own way.

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Ebenezer Bridge

I hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend, at least if you’re in the United States.  We had family over to visit, relax and hang out.  Yesterday we went to Mingo Park and had a great time.  I took this photo of Ebenezer Bridge inside the park….. it took some patience waiting for people to get out of the way (cars, bikers, walkers, etc…).  They all wanted their time on the bridge.

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Krepps Covered Bridge

Yesterday, MJ and I went for a small drive through the countryside hoping to find a few cool spots to photograph the fall color change.  Unfortunately, the leaves haven’t really changed much here in southwestern Pennsylvania.  So we made lemonade with our lemons.  I took some pictures of this wonderful covered bridge instead. 

 

Krepps’ bridge was built using the Kingpost design, which you can see well in this photo.  It’s a rather small covered bridge compared to most of them around us at only 24 feet long.  Like all of the covered bridges in this area, it is painted barn red.

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Another McConnells Mill State Park

Sorry about missing my normal rotation.  Tonight I have another photo from McConnells Mill State Park.  I took this a few weeks ago while on a photo walk with Brad and Dave.  It hasn’t warmed up much since then, but all the snow is now gone.

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Special Note: A while back, I was contacted by Eric DeJesus who is taking classes down in Georgia.  He asked for permission to use one of my photos in his class.  He took my photo from Carnegie Music Hall and added the notes and violinist.  Here is the final product.

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McConnells Mill State Park

I haven’t been out taking any photos lately and I’ve missed it.  So today, Dave, Brad and I went to McConnells Mill State Park in western Pennsylvania to capture some pics.  It was cold, snowy, and very very fun.  We spend hours hiking around the park, including a mile through the snow to Hell’s Hollow Falls.  I know a mile doesn’t seem like much, but trust me when I say it wasn’t an easy walk in the snow.  So tonight I am posting a picture from the photo walk.  This is the covered bridge near the old mill near the eastern side of the park.    

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Greene County Covered Bridge

Last weekend I traveled to Green County (far southwestern corner of Pennsylvania) to participate in a sporting clay shoot as a fund raising event for a local non-profit.  I was probably about ten minutes from the West Virginia boarder when I came across the White Bridge (not only the color, but its name is the White Bridge).  So…… of course I stopped to photograph the 100 plus year old bridge. 


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HDR One's Facebook Friday - Snow Covered Bridge

HDR One Facebook Friday Week 22:

Every week http://www.hdrone.com/ selects five HDR photos posted on Facebook that they feel are the best of the week.  They have been doing this for 22 weeks straight and I’ve made the list 2 weeks including last week.  They post their favorites every Friday night.  I am happy to have been selected and you can see the article here:  http://www.hdrone.com/2013/02/facebook-friday-week-22/

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Snow Covered Bridge:

Tonight’s photo is of a covered bridge in Mingo Park within Washington County PA.  I took this about 3 weeks ago along with a few others.  I was happy with many of them and will probably share a few more in the coming weeks.  

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Winter Stream

Here is another picture from my trip to Mingo Park in Washington County Pennsylvania.  This is the Henry Covered Bridge which is still in use and over 100 years old. 

If you are interested in see a few other winter photos I took, you can check these out:

Another Picture of Henry

Phipps Conservatory

Winter Wonderland

Picture Technique:

Like my last picture from this area, I took this with a tripod in Aperture mode and took a 5-exposure auto-bracket set to create this HDR picture.

Have a great Friday night and I hope you enjoyed the picture.

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Wet Foot - Cold Water at Mingo Park in Washington County PA

Wet Foot

Yesterday, we finally got some sun here south of Pittsburgh.  There have been so many cloudy gray days, that it’s been depressing.  So with nothing to do and a little sun, MJ and I went to a few local spots to get some winter pictures.  This picture is of Henry Bridge in Washington County’s Mingo Park. 

I wanted to get as close to the water as possible to get some great details in the foreground.  To get this picture, I was standing in the water (this time of year, the river level is low), which I expected to be fine with my boots….  Well, I didn’t realize the right boot was ripped open allowing a free flow of water inside the boot.  I’ve had these boots for a long time, but I rarely use them.  Therefore I was a little shocked to fine my foot getting wet and cold.  After getting over this little shock, we captured some great photos.  In the end, we had some great weather for this time of year and a wet foot, which was a small price to pay for this photo.

Photo Specs:

I used my Nikon D800 with a 14-24mm 2.8 lens on a tripod.  I extended the tripod legs out to the side as far as possible to get my camera within about 12 inches of the water.  I set the camera on Aperture mode with it set at f22 to make sure I had a very large field of view.  I also set my camera up to take a 5-bracket set of exposures (+2, +1, 0, -1, -2).  After getting home, I processed the 5 exposures in Photomatix Pro to get the HDR image and did some minor editing in PS CS6 (sharpened, reduced noise, and deleted a few things like a trash can and some street signs). 

There you have it.  A fairly good winter stream photo.  Enjoy.

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