24 Jan 09 Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge At Sunset
Half a dozen of us met up yesterday for a photo walk. The idea was simply to take some photographs while walking the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge.
The plan worked quite well.
The sunset was quite nice, although, in a place where sunsets can often yield quite glorious colored skies, this wasn’t the best that nature can offer.
The temperature was in the low fifties, but, once high up on the middle of the bridge, and certainly once the sun began to fall, along with the wind coming off the Cooper River, the temperature rapidly began to fall.
We had a variety of cameras, from DSLRs to cellphone cameras, and everyone got some interesting shots and angles
All in all, it was a pleasant event, and something that the 21 Century Photography Meet Up Group will be repeating in different locations around the Charleston area.
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03 Jan 09 Early Morning Charleston Waterfront
I’m so not an early morning person. I do what I have to do, but mornings are not my favorite time of day. However, I knew this would possibly be a good photo opportunity, so I said yes to the meetup, and set my alarm for 6am.
By the time I woke up, got washed dressed and made some breakfast and coffee it was 6.35.
Saturday mornings the traffic from North Charleston going downtown is very light, so we made it on time OK. Also there was plenty of nearby space in which to park.
We stayed about an hour and a half and took a number of photos, a couple of which I have posted in here. To see the best of the rest, you can see them in my flickr albums; the link is at the top of the page.
It was foggy out across the Cooper River this morning. The Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge was not at all visible when we got there, but after a while it started to clear, and by the time we left you could see across the river to Mount Pleasant, USS Yorktown, and the Marina.
The fog made for a number of interesting shots, not least the boat one at the top of this post, which was sitting just out in the river from the end of the Waterfront Park pier.
It really was an enjoyable photo session, and I worked up quite an appetite for breakfast afterwards!
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29 May 08 Two Became One
First there were two, then two become one. The Grace Memorial bridge, opened in 1929, cost $6 million; the Silas N. Pearman Bridge, opened in 1966, cost $15 million, and the Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge, opened in 2005, cost $700 million.
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