Bridges not Walls on Creative Arts Three-Day Weekend
Catskill Mountains, 1999
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Can't Remember Where I Took This; but I Like it Nevertheless.
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Mathematician Isaac Newton said, “We build too many walls, and not enough bridges.”
Bridges - a great topic, especially when these days bridges in more than one meaning are so needed. Your Catskills image made me think of the weekend I spent with my parents at the former Grossinger's resort, when I was 16 years old, and the second image is beautiful.
nice twice, amac ...
Well, on my walk this evening I took this snapshot;
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Needs to be cropped a little, but it'll do.
You could chop the bottom south of the orange road dividing line, but it's not necessary. It's an interesting picture.
To get the lines on the road to line up it would have to be form a totally different angle, more to the right maybe.... It is just a snapshot, but I am eternally composing in my head. I just thought that it was interesting and convenient that I was walking across a bridge and took a picture, and here AMac is saying that bridges are the thing.
If I had only known, I could have put some effort into the shot. for a second or two I was distracted by the technical aspects of the photo such as composition, but I had walking on my mind
Some bridges I have encountered in China
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Excellent PHOTO ESSAY!
Thank you.
What is the era of those arched bridges?
In western society, that type of architecture is thought of as Romanesque, and I was wondering if the arches were independently created or if they represented some type of cultural mixing in the distant past....
There's my dweeb question for the day.
Damned if I know. With 5000 years of history there's lots of options.
Evening...we don't have a huge number of bridges but these two would be our most famous..
Richmond Bridge in Tasmania which was built by convicts and still in use today...built in 1823..the stone was quarried by hand.
And our crowning glory Sydney Harbour bridge built in 1923 and opened 1932...
My grandfather worked on part of the bridge in England before he migrated here..the bridge is affectionately known as the coat hanger...
One of the last photos Kavika took was of the bridge and posted on here whilst staying in Sydney...
Rather fitting for his last time in the Great Southern Land...🦘
bloody hell, that's a lot of effort to cross from one shore to the other, just to keep from being eaten alive ...
Morning Vangy...we value our lives so no effort was spared..😁
Poor guy in SA had his leg chewed on a few days ago but he will be fine.. lucky Jaws was just a little tacker and probably teething...
it was probably the bloody fish tattoo on the dags leg ...
Is one of the two of Sydney Harbour Bridge the one Kavika took? If so, which one?
Morning... neither..his photos were from his accommodation and houses etc in front of him...
Kavika's two photos are below..in the top photo the bridge is to the left opera house on the right...
The bottom photo was of a cruise ship passing the opera house...taken before his final journey home...😔
Actually, did we not already see those two photos previously?
Yes that is correct..
thanks for including those.
Footpath Bridge, Japan (© G. Gam)
Charles Bridge, Prague (© G. Gam)
Really nice pair!
Thanks!
great balance in both shots ...
A nice contrasting combination.
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, 1988
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Morning...we were rather shocked when we saw the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time..it was red..I think we were expecting it to be painted gold..🤣
It is red. The Golden Gate Bridge was so named because it spans the Golden Gate Strait. The name "Golden Gate Strait" was applied to the narrow straight that forms the entrance to the San Francisco Bay by explorer John C. Frémont in the mid-1800s.
More for us nerdy types:
Morning... thanks for that G..saved me googling it...now I know...
And a very spectacular bridge it is...
A good view of a very well known landmark.
I rode across that bridge in the back seat of the family station wagon back in '61. of course it was in a fog bank at night, so I only got to see 50 feet of it at a time ...
A long time ago in a past life that is far away, there was a group local to Moscow, Idaho that I used to see occasionally. The group was called "Lotus" and they did this song about Canyons and Bridges. I looked for it on the web a little bit and found a second hand reference to a member of the group, but not much else. So I asked my research assistant, ChatGPT, to do a deep research project on it. While it did give me an album name, The Dance Goes On, and located the CD in two libraries, one in Pullman, WA, the other in Moscow, ID, it did not turn up an actual performance of the song by Lotus that I could share with you. But it did give me a link to the person who wrote and performed the song.
Without further ramble.... Bill Staines and "Bridges"
Lyrics
I forgot to mention that Lotus was a female a capella trio. Bills version is great, but just try to imagine three part harmony... Goose Bump worthy.
This is the only lotus I know, and there are many where I am. Not only are they beautiful, but their roots are pretty good food.
Bridge of Sighs in Venice is one that comes to my mind from that song
oh yeah ...
the album cover was a nice piece of art too ...
Calling this one done. Back Thursday night.
Thanks to all.