bridge building

I'm going to move on from the programming for a bit (for the sake of my own sanity) and do some more model building. They've got these beautiful bridges in Japan where they've got the old school red and black posts. I thought it'd be cool to create an environment that you're doing aikido on a wide enough bridge overlooking a river. It's getting a little easier for me to model in Blender. Here's a photo I found online for inspiration versus what I was able to create myself. Not exactly the same. I still haven't learned how to add textures or UV wrap yet. Here's the first draft: