Bridge Fall Down
It has been stated that the only reason I will get up before the sun rises is for photography. On the morning of April 18, 2006, I woke up at 5am to be sure to get a front row seat for my tripod at the URI Bay Campus to catch the demolition of the Old Jamestown Bridge.
The bridge was captured with my Nikon D200 on a tripod with my 18-200mm lens. The exposure was 1/750 second at f/5.6. This was shot from the shore of The University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus. Many, many long time Rhode Islanders braved frigid wind chills to be a part of this spectacular event. With the 5 frames per second ability of my Nikon, I have enough photos to show a slideshow of the bridge exploding and crashing down into the water. How awesome is that?!
As for some history of the bridge...This bridge was built in 1940 and was at the time Rhode Island's longest. As a child, I remember going across its harrowing 600 foot long main span (which was grated, allowing you to see the water 135 feet below) when visiting my grandparents who lived in Jamestown.
For more information on the bridge go to: http://www.artinruins.com/arch/rip/jamestown/. This is my favorite website to view urban X in Rhode Island.
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16 responses
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Paul Lavallee gave props (9 Jan 2008):
i used to love driving over that bridge, even though it was wicked scary
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Jan Hoffman gave props (9 Jan 2008):
Good one; a little more to add to the bridge history files.....
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Sandi Szauter gave props (27 Jan 2008):
definitely worth dragging yourself out of bed for! thumbs up!
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Eric Sayah gave props (4 Apr 2008):
A proof that there's beauty even in destruction. Good job! And of course congrats for appearing in issue 15!
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Faisal Almalki said (4 Apr 2008):
Beautiful! Congratulations on being published. Well deserved
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John Linton gave props (18 Apr 2008):
I kinda hated ta see it go. I always liked to tell people the new one would collapse before the old one would. Oh well, great photo.
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Mario Scattoloni gave props (27 May 2008):
Picture perfect in every sense. Great image.
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Keith Skinner added a link (11 Jul 2008):
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Phonesvanh Siharat gave props (1 Aug 2008):
Awesome!
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Jen Montgomery gave props (21 Nov 2008):
woah. great capture.
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Janice Mezzacappa gave props (21 Dec 2008):
Fantastic timing, cool shot!
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Joel Faviere said (27 Dec 2008):
This is such a great use of largely spaced composition
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Melissa Prosser gave props (7 Jan 2009):
Wow! That's something you don't see every day!
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Eric M said (4 May 2009):
Great timing!
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Kourtney Mack gave props (30 Jun 2009):
I love your enthusiasm for photograhy and the picture is one of a kind!
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Kurt Brennan said (13 Oct 2009):
That's friggin awesome!
