Our third bridge painting and the largest undertaking to date.  This is a large bridge and we needed a lot of light painters.  We put out the word and we had 11 first-time light painters! Brenda felt a bit frazzled with having to explain the process to the first-time folks, coordinate everyone and run back and forth every time I needed a light adjustment. It was all worth it, in the end we were rewarded with another beautiful image. Kim was stoked to use her new 3 Mega Lumen Q-Beam flashlight, she affectionately refers to as her ‘deer jacking’ light. We had some trouble lighting the background tress, but Joel figured out the problem and changed his angle. Everyone did a great job of hiding just out of sight. Here’s the before shot.

Here is the final shot.  This is the first bridge shot taken with my new full frame camera. This project pushed me to a full frame camera sooner than I expected.  I’ve been hearing rumors of the D600 coming out around December or January, but I (uh, I mean the project) couldn’t wait.  These images deserve a full frame camera.

Here are all the light painters.

We held the first raffle of the previous bridge print and Kim won! Gayle came to visit and brought a couple of quarts of blueberries. So, Brenda and Gayle baked blueberry and oatmeal cookies for the snack.