Ravenel Bridge

It only takes a minute

I couldn’t sleep and looked at the forecast for the morning and it said dense fog. For most that isn’t anything to get excited about but for a landscape photographer it can create great drama and mood. I had a spot in mind below the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge at the Mt. Pleasant Waterfront Park I thought could be a good setting for an image but in a quick change of plans decided to walk up to the top of the bridge instead. Most of the walk up was in the dark and my first thought was to shoot car light trails using the diamonds of the bridge as my backdrop. I stopped and snapped some long exposure images but I could tell they just weren’t looking as I had hoped. I put the camera back in my bag and continued up the bridge until I got to about the midway point. The fog was so think I could barely see the diamond above or anything else for that matter but I thought perhaps if I waited things out may there would be a break in the clouds above or below that cool make for a cool image. Although admittedly my patience began to grow thin and I almost called it, after about 30 minutes of waiting I got a break below that was just enough to see bridge and water. The image I came away with is below.

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