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The most photographed bridge ...

Posted by Vinman (Essex, United Kingdom) on 26 January 2012 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

This is Ashness Bridge, or "the most photographed bridge in the Lake District". This is true as it is very hard to get a picture that either is different from anyone else or does not have a coachload of tourists hanging around.

I was lucky in that I went fairly late in the season and late in the afternoon so it was not too crowded and there was some nice late afternoon sunshine. There were 4 people in the picture originally, two were cloned out but the other two I left for purposes of scale.

The traditional view is from the other side of the bridge looking down to Keswick and the lake but I wanted to pick up some of that late sun, which is not that common in the area. In fact it rained non-stop for the other 6 days I was there.

Processing was a touch of Topaz Detail to bring out the texture in the rocks and then some dodging and burning here and there to increase contrast.

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