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This is a sister post to the previous "Build a Bridge and Get Over It !" - I'm sure you'll agree that this old bridge's elegant engineering
is unlikely to be matched by either of the two new footbridges under construction.
*mark*Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia**
The OM-D E-M1 Mark II * OM-D M5 MkII * XZ2 * XZ1 * E3
On post-processing: The camera kneads the dough, PP bakes the bread - Greenhill
It is indeed a well-proportioned design. Just a shame that the modern elf'n'safety extras in the first shot weren't designed with the same aesthetic sense. Nicely captured as well.
What's going on in the third one, bottom right? Looks like a bloke wading in the river, but I can't make out the detail.
It had me baffled at first, it's simply a gumleaf at the end of that lowest branch ! You've been drinking, haven't you, John ?
Anyways, won't ya join me for a pint or two at the local rubbidy, and we might see more men and maybe even a woman or two wading in the river, eh !
*mark*Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia**
The OM-D E-M1 Mark II * OM-D M5 MkII * XZ2 * XZ1 * E3
On post-processing: The camera kneads the dough, PP bakes the bread - Greenhill
E500,E510 now dead,E520 (now retired),E600 and Grip,14-42,14-45,2x40-150,Sigmas 105 and 135-400 Now Dead..ex 25. Manfrotto 190. Plus lots of OM stuff. Now also 4 items from the dark side...........
As there's no one living to answer it, I asked myself the same question, Keith - being such a purpose specific vessel it probably didn't have much of a resale value if any ... the cheapest way to get rid of an unwanted ship is to sink it !
*mark*Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia**
The OM-D E-M1 Mark II * OM-D M5 MkII * XZ2 * XZ1 * E3
On post-processing: The camera kneads the dough, PP bakes the bread - Greenhill
*mark*Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia**
The OM-D E-M1 Mark II * OM-D M5 MkII * XZ2 * XZ1 * E3
On post-processing: The camera kneads the dough, PP bakes the bread - Greenhill
Thank you Huw, as an Aussie I am always interested in how others see us.
At school when I was quite young, Australian Poet, Dorothea Mackellar summed it up for me in her poem ...
*mark*Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia**
The OM-D E-M1 Mark II * OM-D M5 MkII * XZ2 * XZ1 * E3
On post-processing: The camera kneads the dough, PP bakes the bread - Greenhill
I love the light in the bridge shots - over here we often have to make do with emphasising the misty, murky conditions we are faced with!
The poem you displayed ' The Colours of Light' is so evocative of Australia. I see the poet, Dorothea Mackellar, lived until she was 82/3 - I wonder what sort of age she was when she wrote those words?
That bridge certainly has an elegance and charm which modern bridges sadly lack!
John
"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there � even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity." ~ Robert Doisneau
I love the light in the bridge shots - over here we often have to make do with emphasising the misty, murky conditions we are faced with!
The poem you displayed ' The Colours of Light' is so evocative of Australia. I see the poet, Dorothea Mackellar, lived until she was 82/3 - I wonder what sort of age she was when she wrote those words?
Regards,
Ann1e
Hi Annie - We must have been very lucky the year we visited UK as for 8 whole weeks it was blue skies all the way through September - October.
An evocative English poem that conjures the misty, murky conditions you describe is NO! by Thomas Hood, which I love. If you are a poetry lover (which from the way you write I suspect you may be !) then you will of course be familiar with it and other works of Hood's.
I don't know what Age Dorothea Mackellar was when she penned, Colour of Light but at age 19 she wrote MY COUNTRY, the second verse of which is one of Australia's most well known, best loved and often quoted poems.
*mark*Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia**
The OM-D E-M1 Mark II * OM-D M5 MkII * XZ2 * XZ1 * E3
On post-processing: The camera kneads the dough, PP bakes the bread - Greenhill
Great colours and composition in all of these. In spite of the aforementioned Elf and Safety features, #1 still works well (Edit: Surprised they never did that pun in the Harry Potter films).
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