Great Bridge Lock Park | Chesapeake, VA

A couple of months ago, when I was finally starting to have time to get out and explore, I ended up at the Great Bridge Lock Park (the same day I explored the Great Bridge Battlefield Park), which is about a 10 minute drive from my house.

There is a lovely 19-acre wooded park where you can watch boats traverse between the Albemarle-Chesapeake Canal and the southern branch of the Elizabeth River – a small section of the roughly 3000 mile long Intercoastal Waterway. The park is located on a peninsula and is surrounded by the canal on one side and the river on the other.

I walked a loop around the park, through the woods and along the water, camera in hand.

“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Capture & Processing Notes

All of these photographs were captured, handheld, with my Canon 6D and 24-105 lens. The first three are 3-exposure HDRs processed with Lightroom and Aurora HDR. The fourth was processed in Lightroom and Tonality CK.