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Donner Lake Old 40 Bridge
Donner Lake Old 40 Bridge
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Bridges (Classic Editing)
Camera: Pentax Optio 230
Location: Top of Old Highway 40, near Donner Lake, CA
Date: Mar 5, 2003
Aperture: f 6.2
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Architecture, Travel
Date Uploaded: Mar 6, 2003

This bridge links me to my favorite snowboarding mountain near Donner Lake. Whenever I travel up this bridge I am excited to be snowboarding soon, and coming down from snowboarding, this bridge offers a spectacular sight of beautiful Donner Lake.

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Place: 15 out of 229
Avg (all users): 6.6651
Avg (commenters): 7.7308
Avg (participants): 6.6940
Avg (non-participants): 6.6133
Views since voting: 1593
Votes: 209
Comments: 26
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03/16/2003 10:57:08 PM
Quite a shot! I love the mountains in the background, and the very-well exposed snow in the foreground. It's an overall great shot, although something bothers me about the way it's split in the middle. I honestly can't even put my finger on it. I'm wondering if I would have found it to be stronger with the bridge at more of an angle instead of nearly head-on? It almost looks like two separate pictures -- a mountain-scape and the bridge. Whatever the case (since I'm finding that I'm not making a shred of sense) it's a 9 in my book :)
03/16/2003 11:08:21 AM
great background, great foreground. Love the colors and its all very well captured on "film" so to speak. Awesome - 10
03/16/2003 03:40:09 AM
Exquisite how the arch of the bridge seems to frame the snow: love your composition.
03/15/2003 02:37:39 AM
Seems like you should have showed more of the Bridge!
03/14/2003 11:21:24 AM
My house has wallpaper older then that. Nice shot though. Might be better if the bridge didnt cut across the lake.
03/13/2003 03:12:09 PM
Nice job, excelent background!
03/13/2003 02:18:36 PM
Nice area, it's pathetic how little snow there is this year. Well shot. Something about the angle is odd, I can't quite pinpoint it.
03/13/2003 11:28:44 AM
Very nice scene, and I really like this style of bridge too. Lighting seems good, colors too - the picture is a bit grainy though, at ~75k. Did you save the photo at a high enough compression quality?
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03/12/2003 04:12:47 PM
Nice shot... seems to have a slight blue cast overall that detracts from the overall photo.
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03/11/2003 10:22:30 PM
spectacular view.
03/11/2003 09:47:58 PM
I think this photo has captured the essence of the location! Great use of the bridge to break the image into two distinct backgrounds! Well composed. I like it a lot!
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03/11/2003 09:04:27 PM
Great composition and execution. Love the focus and color. The bridge really dominates the charactor of the shot and the lake and mountains draw the eye into the shot to give even more. Congratulations and good luck! -Clicker-
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03/11/2003 06:43:59 PM
Beautiful colors! I love it.
03/11/2003 04:28:58 PM
Nice background
03/11/2003 02:16:32 PM
Beautiful!!
03/11/2003 01:06:52 PM
Beautiful!
03/11/2003 11:43:21 AM
lets go eat some people
03/10/2003 08:43:58 PM
beautiful
03/10/2003 08:29:02 PM
Great placement of subject. Balanced - 10
03/10/2003 07:30:22 PM
Nice composition, although it is perhaps cropped a little too tightly at the sides. Also I wonder if sharpening would have bought out more detail in the bridge.
03/10/2003 04:21:40 PM
That is a beautiful scene, but I think that there is too much at the bottom of the shot. I would have cropped some of the bottom off to lead the eye towards the scene above the bridge.
03/10/2003 03:52:49 PM
BEAUTIFUL Shot! Absolutely breathtaking!
03/10/2003 02:31:47 PM
nice use of color and clarity good work.
03/10/2003 12:33:35 PM
absolutely beautiful. Deserves a page in a travel magazine
03/10/2003 09:53:52 AM
Wow, you folks are in some nice places. Good feature of the bridge in a very nice well composed image. This would be really nice in a panoramic aspect to open up the feel of the bridge.
03/10/2003 08:20:51 AM
nice work


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