Hampden Bridge in the Kangaroo Valley .. HDR Posters and Art Prints

Photographed with a Canon 400D in the Kangaroo Valley in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. Tone mapped in Photomatix. Hampden Bridge is a suspension bridge across the Kangaroo River, located in the town of Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, Australia. It is named after Lord Hampden, Governor of New South Wales from 1895 to 1899. Hampton Bridge was designed by Ernest Macartney de Burgh, the colony's Assistant Engineer for Bridges, to replace the decaying timber truss bridge which originally spanned the Kangaroo River. Construction began in 1895 and the bridge was opened on the 19 May 1898, just six days before floods washed the old bridge away. A well-known local tourist attraction, Hampden Bridge features four...