A Century-Old Bridge Points Skyward, Loop Towers Crowd In — Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge, Chicago : 無料・フリー素材/写真
A Century-Old Bridge Points Skyward, Loop Towers Crowd In — Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge, Chicago / dalecruse
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The Kinzie Street bridge is one of the oldest bascule bridges still standing over the Chicago River, built in 1908 for freight rail and permanently raised since the 1990s once the tracks it served went quiet. What's left is a fixed monument to a working river that's mostly gone — a rust-red truss frozen at full tilt, its counterweight locked in place, no longer answering to any schedule but its own decay.Shooting close and vertical crops out the water entirely, letting the bridge's diagonal thrust carry the whole frame upward into a wall of glass and stone. Willis Tower anchors the background, its bulk reading almost matte against a bright, flat sky, while older masonry towers crowd in from the right with the kind of ornament that newer construction rarely bothers with anymore. The bridge's ironwork, all rivets and cross-bracing, reads as pure structure against buildings that spend a lot more effort disguising theirs.There's a real tension in the composition between what's obsolete and what's still very much in use — a piece of dead infrastructure propped up against a skyline that never stopped building. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-09-05 10:40:07 |
| 撮影者 | dalecruse , San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| カメラ | NIKON D7000 , NIKON CORPORATION |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.8 |
| 焦点距離 | 60 mm |