I did a photo collection of this pedestrian bridge over the dam at Tempe Town Lake during the day a while ago. But at night the bridge is something entirely different. The lighting is really amazing and makes for some great photographs.
f/8.0 – 2 sec – ISO 320 – Focal Length 40 mm
f/8.0 – 2 sec – ISO 320 – Focal Length 40 mm
f/8.0 – 1.6 sec – ISO 320 – Focal Length 55 mm
f/5.6 – 1.3 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 28 mm
f/8.0 – 1.6 sec – ISO 320 – Focal Length 60 mm
f/8.0 – 2 sec – ISO 320 – Focal Length 50 mm
I have to add the Tempe Town Lake area (the bridges, beach, Tempe Center for the Arts and parks) as one of my top photography spots in the Phoenix area. There is so much in such a small area to photograph. There is architecture in the Hayden Ferry buildings and the Tempe Center for the Arts, incredible night time photography opportunities with the lighting on the buildings and Mill Avenue Bridges, and many great daytime photo worthy subjects as well. Plus, if you are a portrait photography there are a lot of great settings to photography your subjects. So all around, Tempe Town Lake is at the top of my great places to photograph in Phoenix.
The photographs in this collection are of the Mill Avenue Bridges taken at sunset and twilight. Bring a tripod and the North shore of the lake is the best vantage point.
f/5.6 – 1/8 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 28 mm
f/5.6 – 0.4 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 90 mm
f/5.6 – 0.3 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 28 mm
f/13 – 1/80 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 105 mm
The Tempe Town Lake was created by damming two ends of a dry river bed and filling it with water. The point was to create a public space near Tempe’s downtown district. There are often complaints, some valid, of wasting water on something like this in the Arizona desert. But based on the number of people who use the lake and the surrounding parks the complaints aren’t too loud. That is until the rubber dam that holds the water in the lake burst after baking in the Arizona sun for several years. Millions of gallons of water rushed down the dry Salt River emptying the lake. The dam was fixed, the water filled back up and the fish restocked. And then a bridge was built over the dam to shade it from the brutal sun. Whatever your position is on building a lake like this in the middle of the desert, the bridge is a very cool design (and functional) element crossing over the west end of the lake.
f/18.0 – 1/125 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 50 mm
f/14.0 – 1/200 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 50 mm
f/14.0 – 1/100 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 50 mm
f/14.0 – 1/100 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 50 mm
f/10.0 – 1/60 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 50 mm
The 4th and final part of the Crossings series has the details, detail shots of the bridges. In case you missed them be sure to check out part one, part two and part three of the series.
f/11.0 – 1/80 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 40 mm
f/11.0 – 1/80 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 55 mm
f/11.0 – 1/125 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 60 mm
f/11.0 – 1/200 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 28 mm
f/11.0 – 1/125 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 50 mm
This is part two of my Crossings series which features pedestrian bridges that cross the 51 Freeway in Phoenix, AZ. Check out part one of the crossings series in case you missed it yesterday.
f/9.0 – 1/400 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 28 mm
f/9.0 – 1/200 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 40 mm
f/9.0 – 1/100 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 150 mm
I got the idea for this series of photographs while driving on the 51 Freeway in Phoenix. There are these pedestrian bridges that cross over the freeway every few miles. The further north you go on the freeway the more “ornate” the bridges seem to become. I ended up photographing three of the bridges so this is part one of three. This particular bridge is just north of the Greenway exit.
f/6.3 – 1/200 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 28 mm
f/6.3 – 1/200 sec – ISO 100 – Focal Length 70 mm