Archive for November 15th, 2024
Archives #030
Friday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Nothing like shooting a bridge, I always say. They hold stock still, don’t blink or sneeze, and never break the pose to worry if their ‘hair is alright.’ Saying that, it’s all about time of day and lighting when bridge photos are sought. The one above was captured while onboard a Working Harbor Committee tour of Newark Bay.
This 2010 post offered a ‘Happy Birthday’ greeting to the original configuration of the Bayonne Bridge spanning the Kill Van Kull.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The ‘big kahunas’ of New York Harbor are all found within a few miles of each other, with Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges at the center of the garland. I never missed taking a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge every time I happened to be passing it by. On a boat before sunrise, in Brooklyn on foot, or on Manhattan by foot. Its presence in a shot is a ‘place maker,’ just like having the Empire State Building somewhere in a shot, and iconically screams ‘this is New York City.’
In 2016, I spent a bit of time under the Brooklyn Bridge in Lower Manhattan and came across the oldest tavern in NYC, which was destroyed by Sandy and was still closed 4 years later.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Minor bridges are also kind of a thing for me, and my beloved creek had no shortages in that department for the wandering photographer to record.
On November 15th in 2019, I published this post – called ‘correlated causeways’ – as a catch all post to simply describe all the bridges of Newtown Creek in a single post.
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