Bridges

[Greg Lockrey]

Just a question on bridges? Is there a particular historic reason some bridges in America are covered bridges? Tolls, taxes, Guard posts??

They look good in photographs whatever the reason.

I don't know if anyone answered this but covered bridges were used because horses are afraid of high places. The bridges were covered to make the horses think that they were going into a barn.

[Andrew O'Neill]

The bridges were covered to make the horses think that they were going into a barn.

Pretty clever! And the poor horse fell for the same trick over and over again?

Thought I'd upload another image I took of car bridges and train bridge one foggy morning last month...

[Jan Pedersen]

Here's another railroad bridge from Portland OR

[Kirk Keyes]

Sheppards Dell Bridge - Columbia River National Scenic Area.

[Vaughn]

Two bridges...A local bridge over Humboldt Bay and the bridge at Rio Vista in the Sacramento River Delta area.

From a scanned 8x10 contact prints.

vaughn

[MIke Sherck]

I thinkEdit: I am not aware of any covered bridges outside of New England (Vermont comes to mind immediately), and some in Pennsylvania's Bucks County. My home state (New Jersey) has just one covered bridge remaining. I love them!

Lots of them throughout the Midwest. West-central Indiana has a Covered Bridge Festival in October covering two or three counties, I believe, which is reputed to bring in over a million visitors during the course of a couple of weeks or so. I try to avoid the area at that time... Turkey Run State Park and Shades State Park in the middle of the area and some of the most interesting landscapes in Indiana.

Mike

[Bruce Schultz]

Burnside Bridge at Antietam National Battlefield, Md.
7x9 tintype on aluminum. August 2007. Hot as hell.

www.tintypesforever.com

[Bruce Schultz]

8x10 on HP5, shot with 250 Fuji, printed on Azo.
January 2006, post-Hurricane Rita.

www.tintypesforever.com

[brian reed]

I think this is the bridge over Coos Bay on the Oregon coast, I don't remember the name of it, but I am sure someone will let me know.

Ebony Ti
180 mm Rodenstock
Velvia 100
scanned on a Epson 4990

thanks BR

[Jim Bradley]

Kinsol Trestle
75 mm SA Toyo 45A Delta 100
More info about the trestle at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsol_Trestle

JGB