This is the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge, located in Troy, Montana. The bridge was built in the early 1900s. It has a wooden deck and rusty girders, but is still in use today. It crosses the Kootenai River. The colors were much duller in the original photograph, before I converted it to the “colored pencil sketch”. The colors on the bridge and the hillside were all varying shades of brown which gives it almost a color monochrome look.

I decided I had achieved my goal, when someone said this photo has an air of mystery. . . Who is she? Who is that man she is walking towards? What kind of building is that in the background? I made up my own story about a Handsome Prince waiting for his Fair Lady to arrive, while contemplating the repairs he needs to make on his dilapidated old castle. In reality it is a candid shot of my daughter-in-law walking up to where my son is standing, on the grounds of the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. The building is just an old abandoned factory of some sort.