Ladner Creek Trestle
Andrew O'Neill

Ladner Creek Trestle

Wonderful trestle over Ladner Creek. The line was abandoned in '59. It was just too expensive for CPR to maintain. This stretch of the Kettle Valley line runs through the Coquihalla, which can get a tremendous amount of snow, was prone to slides. A big slide is what did it in.
Location
Ladner Creek, just off the Coquihalla highway
Equipment Used
Canham 8x10
Film & Developer
Efke IR 8x10; D-19 1+1 mixed from scratch
Paper & Developer
Scan; Cropped
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NICE.. I like this on a few levels..great contrast and somehow there is a feeling of movement ..also a feel of drama..cool photo
 
Beautiful light on this one - and infrared really shows what it can do with those soft highlights.
 
Definitely one of the best ten or so images I've ever seen in my 12 or so years on APUG. This has everything. Superb lighting, great compositional viewpoint, IR effect.
 
Thank you all for your comments! @oolalajp, yes you can still walk across it...but at your own peril! I walked across it once and then realised that once over, I had to turn around and do it again...with 8x10 over my shoulder!
@awty, getting down to that spot was scary. The sharply angled ground consisted of very loose gravel all leading to a cliff. Probably won't do that again!
 
I really admire this composition. The lighting combined with the IR effect create such drama along with the appearance of the bridge leaning back.
And then the energy from the diagonals echo throughout the photograph. Just wonderful !
 

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LadnerCreekBridge_IR.jpg
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Sat, 29 April 2017 8:19 PM
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