This was a new location for me for shooting and one I have to say I really liked, so much potential here from both sides of the bridge, myself, Brad Eide - www.flickr.com/photos/58071954@N08/ , and Mike Muddy Boots - www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk had spent some time this day up at Stanley Ghyll falls which had been great (images to come) and we had decidced to walk back via here to check it out....

When we got here we all kind of had a look around for potential spots to shoot from as there was a large group of what can only be described as lunatics on the bridge jumping into the water with wetsuits on... as you do!! while they were busy getting wet it gave us time to slow down and pick our spots, and I decided on this one across the river, it looked ideal, but it didn't look ideal for getting to with a fence to climb and a big slippy looking bank to scamble down which ended abrubtly with a nice big drop into the water... amazingly (for me) this was dealt with without incident and resulted in this shot, Brad (wisely) I think thought he had better not go back to his wife with his arms and legs in plaster and decided to shoot from the opposite side with good results also.

This will definitelty be a great spot in Autumn and one I'll be coming back to to have a go at from Brads side, not long after this was taken it started to pour down so moving around for more images wasn't happening on this day.

Of note on top of the bridge on one of the parapets we noticed 2 markers carved into the stone where the river had flooded right over the top of the bridge!! one in 1890, and another one in 1962, that's some serious water level, we decided to press on just incase it happened again.

A vlog by Mike of our trip can be found here- really worth a watch -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbghJ2rFhD8&feature=em-upload...

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