Challenge: Bridges to Cross-Jan.15-20
Jan 17, 2024 08:51:52 #
Jan 17, 2024 09:49:52 #
Kaskazi
Loc: Ontario, Canada
PAToGraphy wrote:
Beautiful, Ron. Memory lane is a great place to wander.
Just so. Those pics on the Eartha Kitt track are a nice selection of Parisian bridges - but it's the sound track that does it for me! And then I got nearly carried away - just squeezed in the excuse to enjoy Glen Miller one more time.
Jan 17, 2024 09:56:46 #
Kaskazi
Loc: Ontario, Canada
PAToGraphy wrote:
Some local bridges
Yes - kids love bridges all around the world. One of my fave spots is at Dorset, Ontario (I'll post down the road), but my heart is in my mouth as they leap without apparently caring if a fastish, or even a slow motor boat might be coming through the other way.
Jan 17, 2024 10:00:02 #
Kaskazi
Loc: Ontario, Canada
joecichjr wrote:
Atmosphere up to the gills over there 🎯🎯🎯🎯
So true, but not always easy to capture, although digital sensors are a big help
Jan 17, 2024 10:03:20 #
Kaskazi
Loc: Ontario, Canada
lhammer43 wrote:
When the kids were out of the house in ’94 I proposed …. (well Dee and I planned) …. that we would take a trip somewhere every summer just to rejuvenate our minds, bodies, and improve our sanity so we could return to work fully invested to do our best. It was a great idea and we followed through with it every year. That first trip was across these two bridges which crossed the Colorado River.
"gets you to the other side" - looks like that will take a leap of faith LOL
Jan 17, 2024 10:21:48 #
JBuckley wrote:
Wow! Very nice.
I'm figuring that you have crossed over and under a few bridges, and never burned any bridges after crossing them.
I'm figuring that you have crossed over and under a few bridges, and never burned any bridges after crossing them.
Jan 17, 2024 10:24:16 #
Jan 17, 2024 10:28:51 #
Irv Cobb
Loc: Silva, MO
A few with covers.
Madison County, Iowa
Burfordville, Missouri
Mary's River near Chester, Illinois
Marys River again.
Jan 17, 2024 10:44:01 #
Jan 17, 2024 10:44:36 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
The Mackinac Bridge connecting Michigan's 2 penninsulas.
That second view is outstanding; nice lines!
Tony
Jan 17, 2024 10:45:21 #
Irv Cobb wrote:
A few with covers.
Gotta love those covered bridges, Irv.
Tony
Jan 17, 2024 10:53:04 #
Here are a few more from the archives, for midweek.
Sabino Canyon bridge: sometimes there's just a little too much water in the creek.
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Sabino Canyon bridge: sometimes there's just a little too much water in the creek.
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Babb's Bridge, Windham ME
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Jackson, NH
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Babb's Bridge, Windham ME, different season
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Jan 17, 2024 11:14:11 #
Jan 17, 2024 11:32:24 #
Kaskazi
Loc: Ontario, Canada
Sorry, this is a rotten image, but my only one of this iconic bridge in Exmoor National Park, Devon, and maybe the oldest bridge in my collection. But, although spectacular in many ways, Tarr Steps is of unknown age. Wikipedia tells us that "several theories claim that Tarr Steps dates from the Bronze Age but others date them from around 1400 AD. It has been restored several times in recent years, following flood damage." If medieval, it helps illustrate the culture gap between rural England of that time and the high style and sophistication of major city states like Venice or Florence. Even so, it was surely a major engineering feat to shift in those slabs of rock, some weighing as much as two tons.
Tarr Steps might be 5000 years old
Rialto bridge, oldest of four crossing the Grand Canal in Venice, was completed in 1591
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The shops lining Rialto Bridge occupy some of the city's most expensive real estate.
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Bridges of Florence
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Ponte Vecchio, the oldest of Florence's bridges (built 1339-1347) was the only one to survive WWII, thanks to German Consul Gerhard Wolf
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The Canottieri (rowing club), sits below the Uffizi gallery and almost in the shadow of the Ponte Vechio
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Jan 17, 2024 11:38:15 #
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