Friday's Focus - 2018/09/21 - Landscapes with Bridges
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Ken Rennie
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I hope you don't mind 3 bridges
Firstly another packhorse bridge at Carrbridge in the Scottish Highlands, not a good photograph as the light was terrible and in the wrong position but you can only do your best.
Another "not great" image of my favourite bridge The Forth Bridge. Taken on a wet and miserable evening but still worth the diversion on a trip to Edinburgh despite the terrible light, low clouds reflecting the sodium glow from Edinburgh, too late to catch any natural light in the sky and the lights from the LPG jetty at Dalgety Bay, next time from the North shore and I will pick better weather. This is a multi shot panorama.
Lastly and a bridge in the landscape Sligachan bridge on the Isle of Skye at sunset with the Black Cuillin on the right and the Red Cuillin on the left.
Ken
Firstly another packhorse bridge at Carrbridge in the Scottish Highlands, not a good photograph as the light was terrible and in the wrong position but you can only do your best.
Another "not great" image of my favourite bridge The Forth Bridge. Taken on a wet and miserable evening but still worth the diversion on a trip to Edinburgh despite the terrible light, low clouds reflecting the sodium glow from Edinburgh, too late to catch any natural light in the sky and the lights from the LPG jetty at Dalgety Bay, next time from the North shore and I will pick better weather. This is a multi shot panorama.
Lastly and a bridge in the landscape Sligachan bridge on the Isle of Skye at sunset with the Black Cuillin on the right and the Red Cuillin on the left.
Ken
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Kyle Jones
Moderator
Arranged from most to least famous...
Golden Gate
Bixby
Fuli (China)
Golden Gate
Bixby
Fuli (China)
Hey Jim. Those bridges over the Merced brought back memories of when I was on a YMCA camping trip and we stayed part of the time in camp Curry. It was about 1954. We would jump off those bridges and float with our air mattresses down the Merced.
Hey Rick, that's a really cool composition! I like those converging lines.Marble Canyon
Those are such cool looking bridges Ken! #3 looks like one that's been in a bunch of movies?
BarryHamilton
Founding Member
Maybe the world's favorite bridge?
Here is the bridge at Christine Falls in Rainier NP.
And let me be the first to show the one at Mullnomoh Falls in Oregon.
And let me be the first to show the one at Mullnomoh Falls in Oregon.
Ken Rennie
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Can't find Sligachan bridge in any movies but there are many bridges in Scotland that look a lot like it. The Forth Bridge was in the Hitchcock 1935 version of the 39 steps. Ken
Interesting topic and some very nice images already. Here are a couple of mine.
Near Hoover Dam
On the road to Mt St Helens
Near Hoover Dam
On the road to Mt St Helens
Amy Nelson
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Blue Mesa
Nice Ben. I had one of them on my list to post before I saw yours
Douglas Sherman
Staff
The bridges depicted here are really nice. Here is a covered bridge from New England over the Pemigewasset River.
Ken Rennie
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I am getting greedy but I have just remembered that I have several images of the Pont St Benezet or the more popular name le Pont d'Avignon as in the song. It hasn't spanned the river Rhone for a while some of it being swepped away in a storm.
Since you seem to like old things this is the Pont du Gard in Southern France, built in the 1st Century AD. Above the first arches runs a road and at the top is an aqueduct. When I visit very old places I am astonished that 2,000+ yrs ago some people could build amazing structures while my ancestors were living in very rough shelters.
Both images taken on a cycling trip to the South of France. Ken
Since you seem to like old things this is the Pont du Gard in Southern France, built in the 1st Century AD. Above the first arches runs a road and at the top is an aqueduct. When I visit very old places I am astonished that 2,000+ yrs ago some people could build amazing structures while my ancestors were living in very rough shelters.
Both images taken on a cycling trip to the South of France. Ken
Great additions Ken! Those bridges are pretty mind blowing! And I agree, to think how long those have lasted compared to how long our more modern buildings last is crazy.