This is a view down the length of the Cogan House (sometimes known as Buckhorn) Covered Bridge which runs 190 feet across Larry’s Creek near the town of Trout Run. It was built in 1877 and utilizes a Burr Arch design. The bridge is open to vehicular traffic although the road at the far end of the bridge dead end’s at a farmer’s private road and gate. There is a spot to park there and you can easily turn around for the trip back over the bridge. I had a short chat with the farmer who owns the land beyond the dead end and he has a keen sense of Covered Bridge history and was well aware of how important they are to Lycoming County history. It’s nice to run into someone like that every now and then.
I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames at .7 stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image before taking it into Photoshop CS4 and applying the “Muted Brown Edges” filter from onOne Software’s Photo Tools and then erasing the red sections of the bridge from the top layer, revealing the true color of the bridge.
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