Ross Bay Awash
Two more pictures of the storm drain on the beach in Ross Bay, Victoria. In these images I was trying to capture how the low waves were washing over the top of the drain first from one side, then from the other, forming Xs and Vs on its surface.
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Bridge Barge
More photos from last Friday when the Johnson Street Bridge started to be removed. This barge holds a very large crane – it was positioned beneath the bridges (rail and road) with the crane on the stern, and this end, the bow, with a control room and various equipment. From the looks of this image, it would seem that splicing of wire rope is no longer practiced.
I like the top image, but what is missing from it is a person to give some idea of scale. The height from which these cables are hanging is about 18 feet (6m), a height that is not readily apparent in the photograph. In spite of this deficiency, I still like the photo better than the larger version it was cropped out of (below). The bottom image is presented to give some context to the crop – if you look carefully you can see a worker in one of the upper windows.
Troubled Bridge
Last Friday, work began in earnest to replace Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge with the removal of the railway span to make room for a new car bridge. I had only a few minutes, in the pouring rain, to take some pictures as they made the final cut prior to lifting the old span onto an enormous barge to take away for recycling. I missed all the drama of the bridge suspended on the end of the crane, and so on. I did get a few pictures that are interesting to me and will be sharing them over the next few days.
Today I post crops from just one image. There were few places that I could take pictures from, and with the 50mm prime lens, not a lot of options once at those locations. However, the 5Dii allows for some pretty radical crops that allow a story to be told, even if not at the highest fidelity, and so that is what you are getting today. The guy in the mask facing the camera is using a torch to make what I think was the last cut before the span is lifted. On the middle beam the black line of a cut can be seen. The nearest beam is supporting the road bridge which will not be removed until the new one is operational.
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Breakwater Curve
Here is another photograph from Ogden Point Breakwater a couple of weeks ago. In this photo I find the logs that are jammed into cracks between the blocks add a lot to the photo. And when you understand that they are driven into small openings by the force of storm waves, it gives some idea of just how durable this structure is.
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Ross Bay Bright
Another view of a storm drain structure in Ross Bay, Victoria. The Olympic Mountains are hidden in the distance by low cloud and the sun was low and bright to the right.
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