Taken last Saturday in Baytown, Texas. What makes this bridge seem unusual to me is that it is a pedestrian bridge in a city park; it has a sidewalk leading up to it, not a road! Isn't a pedestrian bridge with a 10 Ton capacity overkill? Did the engineer that designed it really envision having to accommodate fifty 400 pound joggers at once? More likely this was some city politician's payback for a generous supporter that owned a bridge building company? :-)
Title: "10 Ton Bridge"
Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105 L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro to combine three hand held exposures into one HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo > Photoshop CS4 > Topaz Adjust plugin
3 comments:
Looks like a spec bridge to me. There's one over the local river here that looks just like it...
It could either be that it's designed to carry small vehicles, or maybe if a group of runners goes over it... Or maybe it was just cheaper to order it from an online catalog than designing to the local needs?
Jan
When I was involved in youth football in Baytown we had a JR team [9 & 10 year olds] with a front line that averaged over 200lbs! Nuff said....
Ha! Interesting questions! and brings to mind some interesting visuals too....You should test it --- do you know 400 people in Baytown who would gather for a group portrait?
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