The last two days have been glorious, I love days like this, the sun is shining, a slight cool nip in the air, but not too cool to walk about in a t-shirt.
The weather is going to change again over night so I thought I would make the best of it, I headed up to a windmill call Skidby Mill, sadly the sails have been taken off the mill for repairs, so it kind of looks weird there without the sails on it. I did get some shots (to follow on another post), but while I was in the area, I thought I'd pop over to the Humber Bridge.
I always look at this bridge as England's version of the Golden Gate Bridge, although this one is much bigger.
The main span of the bridge is 4,626 feet (1,410 metres), but the bridge's total length is 7,283 feet (2,220 metres). I was also considering a shot looking down from one of the towers, however these are more than 500 feet (152 metres) in height, and as UK drone flyers know, we cannot fly over 400 feet (at least not without additional permissions etc).
The bridge is a mammoth in engineering, everything about the bridge is massive, you don't realise the size of the bridge unless you are on it, and yes, I did have a driver over it, I couldn't resist, you do however have to pay a toll to get over the bridge, which is only £1.50, which surprised me as I was expecting it to be about £5.00.
I parked my car on the Barton-Upon-Humber side of the bridge, click here for the google maps location of the carpark. and again this surprised me as it was also a free carpark, although just be aware it closes at night, so if you want to catch the bridge with the lights on, you will need to find somewhere else to park.
Looking south, we head out to the North Sea, I didn't know until I was there that there is also a nature reserve, and I love that long straight road that goes to the end of the estuary.
As I've already mentioned, the weather was great and I love the reflections, although I would have liked at least a little bit of cloud just to add to the shots.
I call this a reccy mission, as I really do want to get the bridge at dusk, when it's all lit up, but not too dark so we get the details of the background, so I will be making another trip at some point, it's just under an hours drive from where I live.
I do love these top down shots too, how the textures change from one half of the picture to the next, although I wouldn't advise walking on what looks like sand, as it's not sand it's mud and you'd certainly get stuck.
So that's my recent adventure, can't wait to go back when the weather is right to get some of those shots that I want with the lights, so keep watching this space.
I really hope you've enjoyed this post :-)
All the best :-).
