Nice image! I'll allow you to share in
that compliment, P. J.! Loved my copy of that lens.
J
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> On Jul 5, 2017, at 1:06 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Signature Bridge, (no not that one the other one).
> 
> I wish this image really could stand alone, but it requires some backstory.
> 
> About thirty years ago plans were laid to replace the Pearl Harbor Bridge 
> over the Quinnipiac River at the north end of New Haven Harbor.  A great deal 
> of money was expended to secure the plans for a very nice signature 
> suspension bridge, as a gateway to the New Haven.  Unfortunately the bridge 
> is only really visible from one approach, but still it would be a pretty good 
> view.
> 
> Over the next thirty years there was much dithering while debate proceeded in 
> a desultory fashion over getting enough funding to replace the original 
> bridge, a nondescript ribbon of highway not much different than a typical on 
> ramp to a section of raised highway.
> 
> In the meantime the Tomlinson Bridge, a low draw bridge over the Quinnipiac 
> was replace with an lift bridge the one you can see in the foreground of this 
> image.  So the State of Connecticut has spent a great deal of money on a 
> signature bridge that pretty much fails to because it cannot be seen from the 
> one approach where it would be visible.
> 
> https://pdml.updog.co/webster26/PESO%20--%20signaturebridge.html
> 
> Equipment: Pentax K5II w/smc Pentax F 70-210mm f4.0~5.6.
> 
> As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored.
> 
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