This is another shot from our photowalk last Saturday morning. Just after the blue hour faded away, the pastel colors bloomed. I love the quiet, peaceful Zen of this shot. Fortunately the lights on the bridge were still on, so I got some nice reflections in the water.
This is an HDR from three bracketed images. I cropped a little off the bottom to balance the composition a little better. I used Topaz Adjust to add just a little bit of detail to the bridge, and I used Topaz DeNoise at the max setting to smooth everything out to look a little closer to what I saw that morning. I’ll admit I did juice up the saturation a little…okay, a lot…but the colors had to have been there in order to be juiced up, right??
I wonder just how many ways there are to shoot pictures of the Mill Avenue Bridge??
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the Zen of Zann 
Nice post processing, Zann. It is so easy to be heavy handed with these tools but you had a light hand here in terms of the overall image.
Thanks, Wayne! I appreciate you taking time to comment on the shot! You’re right, the tools do offer a lot of temptation to over-process, and sometimes it’s hard to resist. A lot depends on the subject matter and the mood I’m trying to convey. I wanted this one to have more of a soothing, peaceful quality, so hopefully I succeeded. Thanks again!!