Hawthorne Bridge At Night with Kayak Motion Blur b and w
Here is another shot for the black and white landscape theme. I think I prefer the color version which I will post in my alternate album. This was taken on my Birthday trip to Portland in January. It is of the Hawthorne bridge. the options for perspective were influenced by a homeless camp being just where I would have liked to stand. I know the boat in foreground and the motion blur are probably distracting, but the motion blur is from a night kayaker and I thought it was so cool that he was out there at night, that I wanted to keep it. Mistake?
Thanks so much for your visits, comments, suggestions, favs and taking my Foggy dawn shot to the PP yesterday.
Not a mistake because I was so mesmerised by all those lights & stars that I didn't at first even notice the boat. After thaypt it just adds more to the photo. I know without seeing the colour version that I will prefer that as I am a colour person but it might not be as dramatic!
I think the warmth of the color is hard to beat. If I hadn't seen it, I would love this anyway, but it's just in comparison. I think the strength of this one is such that I'd remove the foreground lower left to just above the diamond shaped links. I like the motion, so wouldn't want to eliminate that, but less of that foreground material would be okay I think.
Lovely picture with excellent processing. I think I might have tried cropping it to get another picture in which the emphasis was on the kayaker and his wake--but I don't know whether that would work or not.
