Bridge Sunset Silhouette by Kaye Menner

by Kaye Menner

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Bridge Sunset Silhouette by Kaye Menner

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Kaye Menner

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Photograph - Photography

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A beautiful colorful sunset silhouette photograph looking through the roadway of the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the southern or city approach.

At the top of the construction, the fenced walkway across the bridge can be seen, and beyond that are eight traffic lanes (the two leftmost once carried the Sydney trams), two railway tracks, and cycleway.

I loved the look of all the silhouetted beams and girders under the bridge with a rich golden sky behind.
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An interesting fact from Wikipedia:
The bridge is held together by six million Australian-made hand-driven rivets supplied by the McPherson company of Melbourne, the last being driven through the deck on 21 January 1932. The rivets were heated red-hot and inserted into the plates; the headless end was immediately rounded over with a large pneumatic rivet gun. The largest of the rivets used weighed 3.5 kg (8 lb) and was 39.5 cm (15.6 in) long. The practice of riveting large steel structures, rather than welding, was, at the time, a proven and understood construction technique, whilst structural welding had not at that stage been adequately developed for use on the bridge.

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June 27th, 2015

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