366 Days of 2012, Day 273 - Moonlit Port River

I nice evening for a Saturday night romantic stroll he said! Take a few snapshots from the bridge he said!

Thirty minutes later we were both chilled to the core as an icy Southerly wind racing down the Port River blew on our exposed vantage point, the Birkenhead Bridge, and somewhat dampened any romantic aspect of this photographic assignment!

From a technical/photographic point of view it was no fun either as the wind rocked the camera back and forth on it's tripod, my fingers froze and the seagulls shrieked at our intrusion. That all being said it was a visual feast as a full moon framed in a cloudy sky lit the scene amid the water, the reflections, the bridges the wharfs and the street lights.

I would have liked to have stayed longer and captured more of this moonlit water-scape but is was Saturday night after all and a cosy local restaurant was just the thing to bring the romance back into our evening!


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 273 - Moonlit Port River'. 1s(+-2stops) f/3.2 ISO320 70mm hdr