Zeeland Bridge

I drove over this bridge in the netherlands and the architectural quality

demanded to be shot. Kudos to the architect, not me. thanks for viewing.

WOW, this is gorgeous, the way you caught the light and shadow/darkness meeting.  Esthetically very beautiful and calming.  Cheers

Kudos to you, too. Even a beautiful bridge can be difficult to shoot well, and you've done a superb job of emphasizing the graceful lines and contrasting tones and textures.

Fantastic

There is such a mechanical drawing feel about this. I really like the tones.

Excellent shot Kieran. Contrast in this shot is great. 7/7. 

Excellent.

Beautiful work.

Well seen!

Beautiful image of our Dutch proud. Thank you for this perspective. Regards, Marco

What a stunning graphic shot. Simple but oh so effective.  Best wishes William

Kudos to the architect certainly....but also to the photographer.  Outstanding!

Excellent work! (6)

Bridges are such a good topic for photos for so many reasons :) THis is just great..
the contrasts are very appealing and the smoothness because of the shutter time brings this akward peace to it Great shot

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Kieran: Your perspective and the dramatic contrasts make this image a winner. Congratulations on the POW.

This is a very good photo in general that can be interpreted in many ways and not only architecture wise. This is mainly due to the shapes, dramatic b/w and perspective. Good job my friend and congratulation on the POW. Cheers!

First, I'd suggest that anyone who critiques this photo should view it at the larger setting, the better to see the fine detail in it, especially the shadow detail on the underside of the bridge.

It's nice to see the finer details, but unfortunately the larger setting also reveals way too many sharpening artifacts along the edges. That sort of thing is easily corrected, so I sort of wonder why the photographer left it that way. Looks as if there may be a bit of tonal banding in part of the sky, too.

Other than that, I like it for its technical/graphic look, and I like it because it's black and white. The approximately eight-minute exposure time sort of lumps the photo into a genre. I'd sort of expect more cloud movement with that lengthy of an exposure time, but I can't argue with EXIF data.

It's interesting to look at for a while, and as I said, I like it. But if I saw it in a gallery, I'd soon move on to the next photo on the wall.

A good composition and interesting subject matter, largely provided by the architecture iof the bridge pilons. This is more a black - white image than a black - grey tones - white image. The absence of grey tones in this case, except in a part of the clouds and in minor bridge details, is not a disadvantage in this graphic image, but I would like to see it a little less of the black sky and a little less of the cotton batten water in front. The black sky detracts a bit from the power of the black in the bridge itself. The black sky might have given the image more balance if the clouds had been higher up rather than in large part behind the bridge. An interesting graphic image that holds attention for a short period of time as its communication is simply the unique architecture and stark sky.

It's a lovely stylised version of the bridge, focussing well on the geometry and structure. All the times I saw this bridge (quite frequent), in my memory it never managed to look this calm - the sea there can be quite wild, the skies grey and wet, and there tends to be quite some ugly graffiti on the bridge too. So, to me, this is also an "ideal" image of the bridge, and as such, it does render the architecture well (and I happen to like that).

At the same time, it does not really connect with me; the fluffy clouds, the milky sea, white pilons - it's all a bit too perfect, too stylised, too ideal - and as a result, it does not manage to hold my attention too long. Part of this short attention span could also be my own memories of the place, though - they do get in the way of looking at the photo independent enough.

I much agree with Wouter. I think it's kind of stunning in its own way but I, too, would move past it fairly quickly, as others have stated. It's a bit sterile for my taste. I don't find anything to "interpret" here, though if others do that's great. I look, I admire, I move on.

Wouter...if you'll look at the "Details" tab in the photograph in the portfolio, you'll see that this image was exposed for 488.4 seconds...or just a bit over 8 minutes. That's enough exposure time to calm just about any wildly raging sea. Matter of fact, in this shot, if you didn't know it was a bridge over water, you'd almost swear it was crossing over a concrete parking lot or something.

Jim, I got that it was a long exposure - it's obvious from the photo. That's not the point I tried to raise - it's how the effects of using a long exposure define my perception of the photo (versus my perception of the actual bridge).