Photo Friday: Curved Reflections (The Arch in St. Louis)Posted by drfl on May 7th, 2010
I haven’t had a photo Friday in the last couple of weeks since I was actually out photographing! I took a little adventure to northern Arkansas and ended up in St. Louis for a wedding. I will be sharing some of the results of this trip over the course of the next week or so. Today it kicks off with an image of the Arch at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. The weather was quite dynamic allowing some very interesting shots of this monument. For this particular shot I braved the numerous mosquitoes and opted for a small aperture to give a star-look to the lights and a long exposure to help streak the clouds as they floated by.
As a side note, my 17-40 f/4l’s autofocus stopped working right the day before. That lens just hasn’t been the same since it fell out of my bag when my zipper broke about 2 years ago in Kansas City. Missouri just hasn’t been nice to that lens!
Technical Details:
Canon 5d Mark II, 17-40 f/4l @ 22mm, f/16, 20 seconds
The Arch, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, Missouri