It was a very sunning day, great temps, with clouds and some winds.
While taking this picture, standing in the water, I felt something brush across my foot.
Not thinking about it too much, I continued to shoot, thinking it was just some leaves or a small twig, but it persisted, and when I looked down, it was a small cray fish!
Sheeder-Hall Covered Bridge (Exterior Long View Up Creek) 002
Gotta love nature!
From this location, I moved up-stream, and was able to capture these images.
Sheeder-Hall Covered Bridge (Exterior Long View Down Creek) HDRSheeder-Hall Covered Bridge (Exterior Low View) 048
From there, I moved back to the road.
I setup the last shoot, and it took longer then expected because of all the traffic!
I stopped at the nearby Target to pickup some quick supplies, and then jumped in the car, and started up the GPS.
A day or two earlier, I had spent some time on Google Maps and my Reference sites, entering in GPS coordinates.
After everything was up and running, I looked up the nearest bridge, and Larkin’s was the first on the list.
As I headed North on Route 100 from the Route 113 intersection (Uwchlan Ave), without issue, but as I followed the GPS, I quickly found that the map on the GPS, was not up to date, and I first ended up doing a circle.
On the second try, I looked at the roads, and used the GPS as a guide, and finally made it to the bridge.
I pulled over as close to the bridge as possible, and grabbed my gear.
I free-handed this shot…
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (Information plaque) 001
Larkin’s does not have car or truck access, and can only be crossed via foot or bicycle, which made it all the more easy to photograph.
So I broke out the tripod, and was easily able to capture this…
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (Interior View) 01
From here, I stepped back some, and got this long view…
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I moved to the other side of the bridge, to where the cat o’ nine tails are growing, looked back and captured this…
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (cat o’ nine tails) 060
Moving back to my car, I decided to go again go underneath the bridge…
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (Underneath) 084
in this image, notice the detail of the bird’s nest.
Larkin’s Covered Bridge (Bird Nest Detail) 098
I finished up, and got to my car, packed up, and headed on.
Built in 1860, Bartram Covered Bridge is located just off of Goshen Road about 2½ miles West of Route 252 in Newtown Square, Chester County PA.
It is not recommended to park on the side of Goshen Road itself, because many people drive to fast in this section of the road, but there is some road side parking available on Boot Road.
I had been driving past this bridge for years and never stopped to doing anything about it, until today.
The beautiful late “Indian Summer” weather, combined with the cold nights have cause a very vibrant and colorful Fall foliage surrounding the bridge.
The bridge crosses over Crum Creek, and there is a small area for kids to run around, or a blanket picnic, as well as a few benches and rocks to sit on.
When you approach the bridge from the park area, you will notice the free-standing main bridge information plaque. As you get closer to the bridge, the next sign that you will see attached to the bridge, is National Register of Historic Places plaque.
One can not walk into the middle of the bridge, because there are metal security bars covering both entrance ways from top to bottom, but as you look more closely through the bars, you can see some holiday string lights attached to the long side walls.
This picture was taken on the opposite side of Crum Creek from where you can park, and to reach it, you have to walk around the bridge, and into the woods, then down by the water.
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Tech Talk
All images were taken with a Canon XTi on a Bogen (Model 3020) tripod with a Canon Remote Switch RS-60E3, using the native 16-bit Camera Raw (cr2) format. The ISO Speed was set to 100.
Images were then transferred to a Microsoft Windows XP (SP-3) based computer and converted into Adobe DNG format, with additional processing done with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
