a different take

If I had to name the one bridge of which I've seen the most photographs, I'd pick the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. So when I found myself staring the bridge in the eye last week, I wanted to do something different. I had to find a vantage point that others don't often use.

And so I found myself on a pedestrian path almost directly beneath the bridge, holding my camera overhead so that I could clear a construction fence, using my camera's Live LCD to help me frame the shot. A bit of photo-editing -- to eliminate a telephone pole that shot directly up the side of the frame, and to render the image in black-and-white -- and voilà!