You may remember that towards the end of last year, I'd found a new slot in my itinerary for photography, in that time between work and karate training. Anyway, that was all fine, but a combination of bad weather and social commitments meant that the SS Great Britain outing was the only one that I managed before Christmas.
However, the New Year arrived, the weather improved and I managed three trips in January, all to shoot the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
This image is from the first trip. The day had been very wet, with winds gusting to gale force and it was still raining as I drove out to the Cumberland Basin. Fortunately, by the time I arrived, the rain had passed and I took up my planned position on the western-most end of Spike Island.
The rain may have stopped, but the wind was still very strong and I lost a fair few images to camera shake. Add to that, I'd only allowed myself half an hour on site and I had to move my view point repeatedly to find a position that avoided light flare from the traffic on the Portway . In the end, this was the only usable image that I got and I've had to crop it to a letterbox format to loose a great area of empty sky at the top of the frame.
For the record, I shot this with my Alpha 77, which still has my Tamron super-zoom on it after the Lacock trip.
The following two trips were more successful and I have a number of images to post, which I'll do over the next couple of weeks. I suspect that I'll run out of bridge themed post titles, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be glad of them.
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