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Tower Bridge, London, which is closed to traffic at the moment while it's having maintenance repairs. It's due to reopen on 31st December but I must admit it was great seeing it so quiet around that area.
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London built between 1886 and 1894. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and has become an iconic symbol of London, resulting in it sometimes being confused with London Bridge, situated some 0.5 mi (0.80 km) upstream.
Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges now owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. It is the only one of the Trust's bridges not to connect the City of London directly to the Southwark bank, as its northern landfall is in Tower Hamlets.
Richmond Bridge is a lasting symbol of Tasmania's convict heritage. The sandstone arches of Australia's oldest known large stone arch bridge have spanned Tasmania's Coal River since its completion in 1825. Built by convict labour, the Richmond Bridge reminds us of the forced migration that contributed to the development of Australian society. Today visitors flock to see the popular attraction, which survives with few significant changes.
This and the portrait mode of this bridge are perhaps my favorites of our family trip. This is from the PEI side of the bridge, long after sunset and with the evening colors at their peak.
I very much enjoy landscape images that are, for the most part without the presence of human intervention. It figures an iconic Canadian structure would intervene. If you zoom in on the image just a little left of center, you will see the same bridge in the distance. After all, it is 13.6 kilometers long.
It's been a while so just a quick post from my recent trip to Scotland to reassure that I haven't totally gone away! :-)
© Fred Adams
You can see the car overtaking a camper van on the bridge, and making my wife (who is driving) shout out and swerve in a couple of seconds.
CSX L574-08 hits the tall curved bridge at Independence, KY on CSX's LCL Sub. The greater Cincy area provides a wealth of cool shots for the many CSX lines radiating out of town. Independence, KY.
You know you're having a good day with your camera when you capture an image of a heron standing next to you, then 10 or so minutes later you come across this beautiful scene in front of you. This is the bridge that crosses the Serpentine in Hyde Park and this photograph was meant to be as the light and the stillness of the water were perfect for the reflection of the bridge in the water.
While hiking the Annapurna Curcuit, I handed my camera to my porter to snap one of our first bridge crossings. Ahead of me are my two friends I trekked with. These swinging suspension bridges were a common site along the trek. They connected remote roadless parts of Nepal. Often they are the only way to transport farm products, and get children to and from school, and of course help all us trekkers get around.
My heart always beat faster when crossing, especially when I'd stop in the middle of the bridge to look at the view. It was so exhilarating, and breathtaking at the same time!
Tijdens het fotograferen van vogels zag ik deze passant over de brug lopen. Met deze herfstkleuren vond ik dit een mooi plaatje.
Night was taking over this winter scene below the Route 1 Bridge that crosses the Gunpowder Falls River.
Los hombres construimos demasiados muros y no suficientes puentes.
Isaac Newton
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"La magia es un puente que te permite ir del mundo visible hacia el invisible. Y aprender las lecciones de ambos mundos".
Paulo Coelho.
A different take on Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon. I moved to the right for this angle of the majestic falls while the people were taking it in from above on the footbridge. Laci was in the white coat with her back to me while I snapped this image. Even though this is a small framed portion of the falls, it still feels large and powerful to me. Photography has shown me the power and beauty of nature in person.
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Town Bridge, in Bradford on Avon, was built in the 13/14th century as a packhorse bridge. The bridge was widened during the 1700s and the domed 'building' on the left, which may have originally been a chapel was rebuilt as the town Lock Up (jail). Prisoners were held in it until they could be brought before the magistrate. Drunks were held overnight until they were sober.
On its domed roof is a 16th Century gilded weather vane in the shape of a fish, known as the Bradford Gudgeon. Prisoners were said to be ‘under the fish and over the water’.
For The Smile on Saturday group - theme "Bridge or Viaduct"
The Minto Bridges are a series of truss bridges that span across the Rideau River, connecting Union Street to Green Island and Maple Island in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The bridges were built between 1900 and 1902, and part of a ceremonial route leading from Rideau Hall to Parliament Hill.
Les ponts Minto sont une série de ponts en treillis qui enjambent la rivière Rideau, reliant la rue Union à l’île Green et à l’île Maple à Ottawa, en Ontario, au Canada. Les ponts ont été construits entre 1900 et 1902 et font partie d’un parcours cérémoniel menant de Rideau Hall à la Colline du Parlement.
V roce 1942 bylo Japonci rozhodnuto o vybudování Thajsko-barmské železnice. Stalo se tomu tak po obsazení Barmy (dnešní Myanmar) a prohrané bitvě u Midwaye. Po této porážce nebyla japonská armáda schopná spolehlivě zásobovat obsazenou Barmu a jediné řešení nabízela právě stavba železnice mezi Bangkokem a barmským městem Thanbyuzayat a dále až do města Rangún. Plány na vybudování této železnice měli původně Britové ještě dávno před Japonci, ale kvůli nesmírné náročnosti bylo od stavby upuštěno. Nicméně pro Japonce byla tato železnice klíčová, a tak přibližně v půlce roku 1942 bylo rozhodnuto o stavbě a začalo se s přípravami, konec stavby byl naplánovaný na prosinec 1943. Již v květnu 1942 byl zahájen převoz válečných zajatců ze Singapuru a okolních zajateckých táborů do Bangkoku a na podzim 1942 se zahájila stavba. Podmínky pro dělníky, kterými byli britští, australští a asijští zajatci, byli příšerné. Japonci nutili zajatce pracovat až 18 hodin denně s minimem stravy ve spalujícím horku, bez patřičného nářadí. Tisíce z nich bylo při stavbě zabito, uvádí se až okolo 90 000 obětí. Na snímku přejíždí vlak 260 [Nam Tok – Thon Buri] nejznámější stavbu na trati, a tou je most přes řeku Kwai. O neštěstí a hrůzách které se při stavbě odehrávaly, napsal v roce 1952 Pierr Boulle román "Most přes řeku Kwai", který byl v roce 1957 i zfilmován. Bohužel jak kniha tak film se v mnoha věcech oproti skutečnosti, jak stavba doopravdy probíhala, rozcházejí. Například, že most nebyl budován uprostřed džungle nebo že Japonci byli špatní konstruktéři. Asi největší chyba je ta, že most původně vedl přes řeku Meklong. Po vydání filmu se na toto místo začali sjíždět turisté, kteří našli jen most přes řeku Meklong a ne přes řeku Kwai. A tak kvůli tomu Thajsko přejmenovalo řeku na Kwai.