I took a much different route in this morning. There was a great early morning sun to my [South] East that I just couldn't compose properly (I stopped at 2 locations and just couldn't get it right). I wound up on "River Road" in Eliot (opposite the sun) going back North (my commute is south) and finding a lot to shoot. River Road is aptly named, hugging the river closely in places, giving a lot of opportunity for some kind of nature/landscape shot or two. If I go again, I know to keep a look out for ducks, although they were a little far for the 200mm reach on my Zoom.

I am standing in Eliot, Maine taking a photo of the "General Sullivan Bridge" that connects Dover Point (Right) with Newington (Left) New Hampshire.

I fell in love with this shot only after messing around with "Negative Clarity" in Lightroom. The temps were rising this morning and the river had a bit of fog and/or haze that kind of desaturated all the colors. I couldn't get anything to work right so, on a whim (well, I'd just seen an article over the weekend on Negative Clarity) I cranked down the Clarity slider and picked up some brilliant tones in the process. The sky was a lot more washed out, I used a gradient filter with a bit of color added. I thought I was going to get more of a blue sky, but the negative exposure and the blue I selected gave me this muddy kind of eerie "Sunset Quality" feel to it.

I was on the fence between this photo and another one of an island and lots of moody clouds. I really liked the other shot better, but opted for the bridge(s) because it appeared that my clouds suffered from some posterization during Post Processing (at least on my monitor). Here is that "other shot" that didn't make the PaD: