The Old Homochitto River Bridge Near McCall Creek, Mississippi at Sunset

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Back in March I made a trip to visit family in Mississippi and while I was there I made a few a stops to photograph a couple places. One of those stops was the Homochitto River Bridge near McCall Creek, Mississippi. After my visit I posted one of my preview pictures I took with my cell phone and shared as a Random Image of the Week. Today I wanted to share the rest of the images from that shoot.

The Old Homochitto River Bridge Near McCall Creek, Mississippi   – History

The Homochitto River Bridge was built in 1906 and has four 100 foot spans. It is described as a through truss bridge and often referred to as the NTZR Homochitto River Bridge in Franklin, County. This bridge is part of the Natchez Rail Way. The rail system was created over a 100 years ago and is still in operation! – According to BridgeHunter.com  – Text I originally wrote for the Random Image of the Week.

About the Photo Shoot

As I mentioned in my previous article about the bridge, it was a difficult trek to get to the bridge. You had two options to get to the bridge from where I parked. One of those options was to bushwack my way to the bridge through dense forest or follow the River along the sandbars.

Since the river was at normal levels, I was able to follow the river bank along the sandbars. The sandbars were mostly safe and stable except at the river’s edge. In the sandy areas near the river’s edge it looks dry but that’s only on the surface. Once you place your full weight of a foot on the unstable parts you will sink at least up to your knees. Luckily, I was familiar with Sandbars and the possible unstable areas.

The river was clean and free of debris. The sand reminded of a sandy beach and it might be fun to spend the afternoon playing in the water and exploring the river.

About the Images

I arrived about an hour before sunset. Because of the timing, lighting was difficult. I had to take longer exposures and use my tripod to pictures of the river. I wasn’t able to get a complete shot of the whole bridge at this visit, so I took several pictures of the different sections and one of the bridge from the tracks at sunset.

The pictures were taken with my Sony a6000 and a Sony 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS Power Zoom Lens attached to my trusty old tripod. Those images were processed with Adobe Lightroom CC, Topaz Labs A.I. Clear and DXO NIK Collection to clean up the images, remove noise, and recover the lost details.