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10/09/2002 10:00:51 AM · #1

So I've been admiring the winning picture of the bridge by sojourner this week, and it wasn't until now that I learned where this bridge is.

My wife wrote to me this morning to mention that this happens to be the bridge outside her office, which I drive by several times a week and have photographed from our boat on numerous occasions, and I NEVER EVEN RECOGNIZED IT HERE!

My wife was showing the site to a co-worker, who not only recognized the bridge, but happens to know sojourner... and my wife says she has been to his house.

I just thought this was all too funny -- who knew?! :)

Anyway... kudos again to sojourner for an awesome shot -- my shots of it are not at all in the same league as this one! And tell my wife I said hi... :)

DougPaz

Nikon D40

10/09/2002 10:26:06 AM · #2

I too was shocked to see where it was when I read it was taken in Rochester, PA. I used to live in Hopewell, Beaver and Moon Township years ago and immediately recognized it AFTER I knew where it was. From what I remember it never looked this pretty. Just goes to show what a fantastic photographer Sojourner really is!!

10/09/2002 10:40:56 AM · #3

I've always thought it looked like a good photographic subject, but I've never been able to find a good angle for it like sojourner did. I took a decidedly mediocre shot of it from our boat over the summer, but I'm glad to see that there IS a good angle in existence!

stephan

Casio QV-4000

10/09/2002 11:31:23 AM · #4

Hmm... to me it looks like a totally different bridge. Amazing how a changing the angle can make such a big difference.

Swashbuckler

Sony DSC-F717

10/09/2002 12:06:56 PM · #5

Alan, while I think both bridge pictures are very nice, I just can't see them as the same bridge. Your bridge arches down at the piers, while Sojouner's doesn't arch at all. The piers on your shot seem shorter too, that's partly due to the angle, but there's differences between the bridges.

Originally posted by alansfreed:
I've always thought it looked like a good photographic subject, but I've never been able to find a good angle for it like sojourner did. I took a decidedly mediocre shot of it from our boat over the summer, but I'm glad to see that there IS a good angle in existence!

LobsterClaws

10/09/2002 01:02:08 PM · #6

Wow, that's crazy how different it looks in the winning shot, and in alansfreed shot. Angles really make a big difference.

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

10/09/2002 01:21:24 PM · #7

You guys are right -- I put a link up to the wrong entire bridge!

My problem is that here at work I can't see any of the images on the DPC site (our provider thinks that the DPC image server is invisible, for some geek-related reason...). So the result is that I was relying on memory here. There are a few bridges right in the same area, and I was thinking that he had posted one of the train tressles. Now that my wife has e-mailed me the picture, I can do a better job of identifying it!

This, if I'm not mistaken (again) is one of two highway bridges that connect Monaca and Rochester. I think you see this bridge at the upper right hand corner of
this site.

Anyway, the rest of my original story still applies... if you strain your neck you can still see it from my wife's office :)

LindaLee

Canon EOS-40D

10/09/2002 01:22:52 PM · #8

Originally posted by Swashbuckler:
Alan, while I think both bridge pictures are very nice, I just can't see them as the same bridge. Your bridge arches down at the piers, while Sojouner's doesn't arch at all. The piers on your shot seem shorter too, that's partly due to the angle, but there's differences between the bridges.

I agree, it doesn't look like the same bridge at all to me. Is it possible that alansfreed's shot was taken of a different
section of the same bridge??

Swashbuckler

Sony DSC-F717

10/09/2002 01:38:41 PM · #9

Alan, I think you got it the second time. That bridge looks more alike for the tressles. (brain fart for tressles, thanks!)
IHall, yes, it's possible these were the same bridge, but less than likely. Car bridges are more likely to change in mid-stream because cars can handle more change of angles. I've seem car bridges where it slopes quite a bit, but train bridges tend to be very flat all the way across. Try looking at the two pictures' piers comparied to the width of the bridge. Sojourner's is farther off the water than Alan's. I'm really not trying to be arguementative, just picky-une.

10/09/2002 01:45:31 PM · #10

Just to be clear -- the picture I originally linked is NOT the same bridge as sojourner's. Mine is a train tressle; his is a vehicle bridge. His bridge shot is of one of the two bridges that link Monaca and Rochester.

One funny note about one of those two bridges... just to show how popular high school football is here. One of the highway bridges (I can't remember if sojourner's is the one...) is named the "Rochester-Monaca Bridge" or the "Monaca-Rochester Bridge" depending on which team wins their annual high school football game! They switch the names, if necessary, on a yearly basis!

Swashbuckler

Sony DSC-F717

10/09/2002 01:58:34 PM · #11

Alan, the signs, do they keep the set not in use for later or do poor taxpayers have to pay for new signs every time the winner changes?