Yesterday, I headed downtown to the Highlands to enjoy the fall weather. The Highland Bridge crosses over I-25 and is the main pedestrian and bike thoroughfare to get there from downtown. It has been a while since last visiting, and a large apartment block cluttered the skyline, so I soon headed back towards Commons Park. The late afternoon sun lit up the bridge against a deep blue sky, so I made a monochrome version for this image, to show this tonal contrast.
Along the South Platte River, the late afternoon sunlight creates a lot of interesting reflections and opportunities for abstract compositions. In this image, the reflections caused light to shimmer in the shadows of the bridge.
Along the banks of the river are steps that remind me of a Greek or Roman amphitheater, but with an inverse curve. Most people had moved out the shade into to sunlight, but I did get curved leading lines, and those reflections in the river.
Across the river is a tall apartment block that created plenty of abstract reflections in the water. The reflection of the tree interrupts the repeating patterns of the building in this image.
The bridge that carries Speer Blvd always creates reflections of the trusses in the water.
In this image, the pedestrian bridge and apartment block is reflected in the river.
Now that the water levels have fallen from the high water levels, there is less turbulent flow over this weir. This provides some interesting reflections from the ripple patterns.
A longer lens allowed me to make a tighter compositions of a small area of one of the reflected buildings.
Finally, it was time to return home. On the Millennium Bridge the setting sun created warm reflections in the glass.
In this final image, I stood right under the bridge tower, making this image looking straight up.
Managed to get some of those reflections along the tower as well!