A few more covered bridges plus a scan of an old film shot of a canal in Venice
The light in several of these guys is absolutely magnificent ðĨðĨðĨðĨðĨ, and the last shot of the I&M Canal going through Lemont is just super (ðĪŠ)
The city of South Bend exists because of the St Joe River, so I guess it would be churlish to complain about the number of bridges - or of the 'detours' to get to a bridge. I still remember my parents going out of their way to avoid the "Darden Rd bridge" when I was in High School {that was 60 years ago!}. Some mayor has built a modern {"souless"} replacement since then, but the old bridge remains for pedestrians. It proudly proclaims that it was built in 1884 by P.E. Lane of Chicago {I expect the original signs were raised black lettering on 'natural' or white metal, but that was many many paintings by civil servants ago; my sixty-year-old memories involve a green bridge without the vertical bars which minimize the likelihood of falling off}.
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Great shot - and I absolutely love that suspension bridge at the river park in Mishawaka too
Ran across a couple of interesting bridges captured on our travels. The first one is from Alaska where the bridge was across a ravine that was a fault line. Every time there was any movement from the fault they would have to repair the approaches on both sides of the fault. To make the repairs a little less of a problem they made a suspension bridge from one side of the fault. Now I'm told the repairs are generally limited to one side of the ravine. The second has two bridges The high vehicle bridge over the port entrance. The other one is that low flat swing bridge with all those pontoon looking floats under the bridge deck. It would swing across the port entrance for pedestrian traffic.
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Bixby Bridge on the Pacific Coast Highway was built in 1932.
I drove Highway One many years ago, and it was absolutely breathtaking - even driving north - and your beautiful photos have taken me back to that spectacular time