Hi
I love this area as i use this a lot for weddings and fashion shoots,there is so much variety down there and also up the road in woodstock gardens. I much prefer your colour version as you have nailed the exposure, detail retaind in the shadow area while your highlight have not blown on the sunny side of the bridge.Had you used a polarizer with this?
Ben
I have to ay when I saw this at first I had trouble realising which part of the bridge it was taken of. I like the idea – the natural point of focus would be the full length of the bridge and not isolating one arch but this does work well for me. The only concern I would have is that the sky doesn’t sit too well in the image. I noticed the sky under the arch is similar in colour to the main sky element above the bridge which suggests you pushed the blues?