So it was a balmy -2 this morning on the Maine side of the Pisquataqua river. I say 'balmy' because it was -19 on the ride to daycare. They kids & I were watching the car's thermometer level off. It was so cold I really had no 'inkling' for stepping outside for photography. I strongly considered driving straight in and stepping out for a lunchtime shoot. Good thing I didn't.

I probably couldn't have gotten to the Route 1 Bypass bridge (I don't know it's official name) at a better time for this shot. OK, I lied, I'm sure an hour earlier with the sun much lower on the horizon would have been better, but it would have been harder to keep the shadow details. I had visions of a desaturated color version of this shot, but fell in love with this tritone. Believe me, I tried to get the color to work. After I'd tweaked out the tritone (in Lightroom 2), complete with a couple of gradient filters, copied all but the greyscale settings and pasted into the color version to get the tones. I desaturated the green a tad, but couldn't get the tritone out of my head.

This is a much brighter shot than I am used to. I normally go for darker photos (not sure why). There are no clipped highlights according to the histogram and very little shadow detail lost (very little, almost too little for me ;). I only wish the sky wasn't so blown out 'looking'. What I wouldn't give for a few angry storm clouds (but then the temps would have been much warmer and there would be no fog).

Here's a shot from this morning that didn't make the PaD (From under this bridge):