[Leica] IMG: Along the American River

[abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)]

Today while they installed running boards on our new Mercedes Benz Sprinter 
van I rode a portion of the American River Bike Trail up to California State 
University Sacramento where a replica of the Golden Gate Bridge spans the 
river. Even though I've lived here for nearly four decades I've never 
crossed this foot/cycling bridge. Today I took the opportunity to ride 
across.

We had great clouds today, but challenging to capture, so I made an HDR 
image, processed in in Photomatrix Pro. This is looking upstream to one of 
the water intakes (I think). The river is low because there's not much 
runoff out of Folsom Lake. There's not much runoff into Folsom Lake either, 
now that I think of it, the Sierra snow pack is only about 60% of normal for 
this time of year: grim news.

I'm rather pleased with the way this came out. It captures the dynamics of 
the sky as I saw it.

<http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/27796461_bZQWXL#!i=2442606062&k=5jKhdmW&lb=1&s=X3>

Shot with Sony NEX-7, Leica sumicron 35mm, f4 or thereabouts with 
auto-bracketing turned on.

I think this image bears looking at large. I'm going to enjoy printing it.

Thanks for looking. Comments/critique always welcome.

Adam Bridge