This is an old Iron Furnace production site that has been transformed into a community park. It is called Poole Forge and this old home was in bad shape until a serious effort at restoring it was made. This bridge is a recent addition and it was all decked out in Christmas lights for the semi annual Christmas at the Ironmasters event which I also had a display at this year! We were blessed to have a decent snowstorm drop 4-6 inches during the show which was awesome! This image was actually taken a little later than I would have liked because the light was really fading which meant the balance was off and contrast was rearing its ugly head. The lights on the bridge were flaring due to the longer exposure which would have been avoided had I attempted this shot a half hour earlier. There is a point when shooting subjects like this that the ambient light balances with the Christmas lights but it doesn’t last long. To see for yourself, set up a tripod before dusk and shoot a series of bracketed exposures every few minutes. You will start out barely noticing the Lights, then slowly but surely the ambient light will start to dim and as it does the bulbs effectively become brighter to the point where the exposure for them and the exposure for the available light is balanced!