Another Bridge

I shot this with a fisheye precisely to bend reality into something less familiar. The structure itself—a pedestrian bridge of steel and cable—already has a certain grace, but the distortion turns it into a sweeping arc that almost feels like it’s about to close in on itself. The cables draw the eye to the centre, while the graffiti below pulls it back to street level, grounding the image in the here and now.

The day was heavy with cloud, the light diffused and slightly cold. That worked to my advantage: no harsh shadows to compete with the strong geometric lines, and just enough tonal variation in the sky to give depth. Exposure was balanced to hold detail in both the concrete pylons and the cloud textures, while the dynamic range kept the darker graffiti legible without flattening the overall contrast.

One unplanned element is the water droplet on the lens, caught mid-frame. I debated cloning it out, but it fits the atmosphere—this was a day of intermittent rain and wind, and the droplet is a reminder of the conditions in which the photo was made.

Technically, the fisheye exaggerates the curvature beyond what the human eye would see, and I wanted that. It’s not a documentary representation of the bridge; it’s an alternate version, one that plays with scale and perspective until the familiar becomes strange. The title’s misspelling is deliberate—a small visual wink to match the visual distortion.