This mossy bridge is by Latourell Falls in the Columbia Gorge. We found it following the old US Highway 30, a.k.a., East Historic Columbia River Highway. I stopped the car at the falls because the filtered sunlight on the moss caught my eye. I’m not sure why I decided to experiment with black and white, since the scene was closer to monochrome in green. But the lines of the old bridge, probably a CCC project during the depression, suit black and white.

The original photo of the mossy bridge shows the moss better than the black and white, on the other hand the black and white emphasizes the elegant lines of the old bridge.

I took this picture with my Sony RX10iv camera, settings were: f13, ISO 100, 1/25s, 18.92mm focal length. I used the GIMP’s Desaturate filter in the Colors menu and a vignette to create the black and white. For a little information about using open source software to create black and white images check out this post: Black and white digital photo processing: Part 1.

For Brashley Photography’s Mid-Week Monochrome and Alive and Trekking’s Which Way photo challenges.