Today's Photo Challenge was Bridge. I left my house at around 7:30pm with my camera. I didn't want to go far from home to take a picture because I knew that I was losing light really fast. I knew there were small wooden bridges constructed to cross over the wide drainage canals at the local park. So, I headed that way. One of my flickr friends is the inspiration for the title of this post, "Bridge to the Light". She said this looked like a path to the light. I thought that was a poetic interpretation. Since the object of the challenge was bridge, I chose to caption this post..."Bridge to the Light". Thanks LaValle for the inspiration.
I love to watch people play. Here are two men practicing their sport. It had just rained and I could see them kick up a spray of water every now and then. I was so tempted to ask them if I could practice some action shots with water spray. Wouldn't that have been neat? I didn't have the nerve. Shucks! I did play around with some coloring on this one. I was trying to kick it up a notch.
For this shot of the kid on the bike, I had my apperture at 2.8 because I needed all the light my camera could take in at such a late time of day. I saw him coming around the path and took this shot. Obviously, I desaturated the colors to create this grainy black and white image. But, the motion blur that you see is authentic as shot. I was quite pleased and excited. I love how you get a real sense of speed thanks to my slower shutter speed.
Then, it had really gotten dark and I knew I needed to leave the park. I spotted this magnolia at about 9 feet above the ground. Luckily, I had my 105mm lens on my camera. I tried to capture the flower without flash but there was not enough light. So, I had to use my accessory flash to get a clear shot. It rained earlier so I got some bonus water droplets on the flower petal. I thought it turned out pretty.
Also, I got to see my sister and brother-in-law tonight. They were doing some fitness walking on the new walk path. I was sitting on the sidewalk with my camera stuck to my face while focusing on the the scene of the bridge above. When I realized they were coming around the bend, I yelled out to them, "I'm too sexy for the track!" hehee...truth is, I better get my lazy self on the track Pron-TO!
You see this 1978 Ford? My father in law purchased this new in that year. He has a 1997 Ford truck that he still calls his 'new' truck. He keeps the 'new' truck in the garage it is rarely ever used. It still has that new leather interior smell. Can you imagine? He maintains this huge 30 acre place along with a one acre garden. Everything is neat as a pin. He had a stroke about a year and a half ago. You would never know it today. He picked that bucket of squash in the foreground just before we arrived. He had it ready for his brother to pick up and enjoy. He raises the vegetables, not for himself, but to share with everyone he cares about. He had called us to come get some tomatoes. Terry likes to eat tomato sandwiches for lunch. 
Here is Terry's mom. She is a very sweet mother-in-law. I am very blessed to be part of this family. You see the pictures laying on the counter? Those were pictures of PawPaw Sibley's grandparents. They were framed behind glass at his brother Herman's home. Below, you see Herman and Claude (brothers) holding the antique image of their grandparents. I took this picture then cropped the image for reproduction. Terry's mom requested 3) 8x10 prints of the image. She had wanted to give the copies to other family members. It worked out pretty good considering it is literally a picture of a picture behind glass. In my opinion, the images printed a bit too light. This happened because when I first had the 4x6 printed, I thought they were too dark. I overadjusted. I bought them anyway. Later, I might try to get a better copy. 
From this image, I cropped out the image below.
