Morrison Bridge

Today was cold, windy, cloudy, dark and a bit dreary and I think this shot of a bridge in Morrison, Colorado pretty much sums up the weather today -- but I did have fun using an ultra wide angle lens.

Some people have commented about the dinosaurs on the mural. Morrison, Colorado is pretty famous for it's dinosaur fossils and is home to Dinosaur Ridge where you can see many dinosaur fossils in a rock-face along a mountainside.

[Karl]

Gark - great shot - love that wide angle look.

[paula goff]

fav.....this is spectacular!
is it the lens that gives this the curved look?

[gordon pressley]

Great lead in lines...nicely created... :D

[Dany]

Love the ''fish eye'' effect !!! Nice HDR !

[Bill]

love the complexity of this

[Bill]

fav

[Gloria Wadzinski]

OMG this is fantastic. And I love bridges. FAV

[Wendy]

This looks so awesome!!! Love that super wide angle and the HDR is perfect for this! Fav!

[Cheri Pittman]

Love this!

[Jeff Walker]

very interesting shot!

[Sheila]

Nice. Interesting photo.

[Karen H]

Loving the look, another escher type
Love the processing too. Fav

[Gark]

@paulaag yes the lens, a diagonal fisheye, gives it the curved took. The distortion is easily corrected in light room, PS, or a lot of other post processing software, but I chose not to correct it because I liked the effect for this photo.

[Kim]

This is very cool Gark! And it was a yucky day in Colorado today!

[Mark]

Very cool especially for a cool day today. Nice lead in.

[Erinn Dubay]

Love this! I love the distortion, textures, and pov. Fav!!

[mary wolaniuk]

Fascinating photo. Is that a stegosaurus crossing the bridge?

[Mike Llewellyn]

Are those dinosaurs in the background? The bridge to Jurassic Park. Nice processing as usual.

[Roberta Clark Chalmers]

Really interesting shot!

[Ron White]

Gark, excellent HDR and and super wide angle, the composition is also great. I've passed the restaurant wall with the artwork many, many times and, NOT stopped to look and photograph. More inspiration to slow down, thanks.

[☠northy]

i love the look and the view thru the parts of the bridge... altho' i'm a bit confused about the dinosaur!!!!

[Livia]

Wow. That is amazing. The textures, the colors, the perspective, are all fantastic.

[Rehanna]

Love it!

[michel dufour]

Gark your job Is wonderful Nice Nice job color subjet wow BRAVO!!

[Donna H]

fabulous composition and all those lines are awesome!

[Karen bable]

Awesome. I love the fish eyed effect and I'm thinking you also snuck in your passion for a bit of rust!

[Gark]

@kamb Thanks for noticing -- keen observation! : )

[Donna]

great use of wide angle. it really draws the eye in. great shot!

[Joanna Payne]

This is great. I'm not a huge fan of HDR but here, combined with that wide-angle and curve and the fairy tale treatment it works brilliantly.

[Vanilla]

Fabulous, interesting, wish I could produce such awesome shots (I'll learn :-))

[Peter de Graaff]

Very cool use of lens. Like the HDR

[Den H]

Woho....very gritty. Superb processing.

[Marie]

Brilliant! Nice composition and processing!

[Sabrina]

Wow ... super awesome! Great processing!

[Mike Hendren]

Excellent! Man, that 15mm really sucks in a lot of info! You even got the mural framed in the background - great job!

[Corinna]

wow! cool photo! great job!

[Gark]

@mawol @northy Morrison, Colorado is pretty famous for it's dinosaur fossils and is home to Dinosaur Ridge where you can see many dinosaur fossils in a rock-face along a mountainside.

[Mimi Ditchie]

Great shot, fabulous details, very interesting, draws me in.

[Debbie Orlando]

WOW! Very neat shot and the processing is great in that it doesn't distract from the photo. Sometimes I feel it can.

[Ruth Moucharafieh]

Fantastic use of wide angle and processing is wonderful!

[Clare]

excellent looks effective

[Davie France]

Great eye-popping shot!

[Lidac]

HDR AGAIN :P

[Nicci]

I hadn't seen much HDR before your shots.... I'm assuming you do this in PS? Any suggestions for stand alone HDR programs? I have Elements and as far as I can tell, you can't do it there. Amazing shot, by the way.

[Ade Akinyede]

Brilliantly composed and once again processed like a champion!! Beautiful work Gark, rock on!!

[Gark]

@niccitrent The new version of Photoshop has HDR capability, Nik software and Photomatix both make very good HDR software and I think all three are excellent -- can't go wrong with any of them!

[Dane Steigerwald]

Very cool effect. Hard to believe that's me and Pattys bridge. :)

[Gark]

@gr8dane Yes, that's your bridge!!! : ) I think you can claim it since Patty took a picture of that bridge after you did : )

[Patty J]

@gr8dane @gark - OK, it's Dane's bridge, but I love it too :)
Your HDR is interesting... it turned the quaint into crazy!

[Zuzana]

Superb image! Great job!

[Rebecca M]

Amazing shot!!

[Jennifer Potter]

Beautiful!! I love how the HDR really brings out the detail in the metal of the bridge. I was wondering about the Dino's! Glad you mentioned that!

[Tams]

Wow I was trying to figure out where this could possibly be in the world from the thumbnail, surprised to find Colorado since I'm here as well but I've never been to Morrison...anyway, awesome pic, love the hdr & the cool perspective.

[Anastasia]

Awesome shot! Great angle...love it!

[Juliette Packham]

So much to look at here - great processing and a fabulous composition

[Howard N]

Lots of dinosaurs roamed Morrison... I am one of the only ones still moving in our town. Very interesting POV. A well taken image.

[Kim Suzanne Kelley]

Totally wicked shot! So busy, in the best way!!! FAV. I woke this morning to your comment on my pic and it brought a smile! Thanks for the follow - right back at ya, your pics are awesome!

[Myrna O'Hara]

Very well done, love whatever you did with the processing. Congrats on the PP

[MariaB]

Whow, really interesting.. So much to look at! Striking lines. FAV.

[worthon]

...great processing:)))) fantastic:)))