{"id":8662,"date":"2019-09-23T21:41:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8662"},"modified":"2019-09-23T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T04:41:16","slug":"downtown-by-the-riverside-wk-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/downtown-by-the-riverside-wk-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown By The Riverside — wk 39"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highland Bridge Structure In Monochrome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bridge Pier Reflections In Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steps Along Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apartment Building Reflections.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The bridge that carries Speer Blvd always creates reflections of the trusses in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speer Bridge Reflections.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In this image, the pedestrian bridge and apartment block is reflected in the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abstract Bridge Reflection.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reflections Over The Weir.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A longer lens allowed me to make a tighter compositions of a small area of one of the reflected buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abstract Reflections In The Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Finally, it was time to return home. On the Millennium Bridge the setting sun created warm reflections in the glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunset Glass Reflections, Millennium Bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In this final image, I stood right under the bridge tower, making this image looking straight up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Millennium Bridge Tower.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Managed to get some of those reflections along the tower as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[436,158,63,422,766,941,28,25,1020,306],"class_list":{"0":"post-8662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-project52","7":"tag-abstract","8":"tag-bridge","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-downtown","11":"tag-highlands","12":"tag-millennium-bridge","13":"tag-reflections","14":"tag-river","15":"tag-south-platte","16":"tag-water"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2fI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8666,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions\/8666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}