I dug into my archives for this challenge and found many different types of bridge photos. Here are a few of them.
Artistic Bridges
Here are a couple of bridges that feature art in the form of sculptures.
Sandridge Bridge – A former railway bridge, now a pedestrian bridge in Melbourne.Sandridge Bridge, Melbourne
The City to Sea bridge in Wellington, New Zealand passes over the main road to connect with the waterfront.
City to Sea Bridge, a public artwork.
The detail on the Bridge-City to Sea Bridge Wellington NZ
Historic Bridges
These bridges are beautiful as well as functional even after nearly 200 years.
Convict built bridges in Tasmania at Ross, Richmond and Campbelltown.
The convict designed bridge at Ross.The bridge at Richmond built 1825 is possibly the oldest known stone bridge in Australia.The Red Bridge, convict-built bridge, Campbelltown Tasmania
The apple blossom never seems to last long, October is often windy and sometimes it’s gone almost as soon as it has arrived.
In May I planted some bluebells under the tree, I honestly didn’t know then if I would be here to see them flower as the house was on the market already but I thought that they would look nice and be a parting gift to the house.
They flowered this week in time to coincide with the arrival of the apple blossom and it does look nice. If I am still here in the autumn I’ll try to plant a few more. A mass of them would look beautiful next spring.
When you live on an island it is not terribly hard to find water to photograph. Here are some waterside scenes in Tasmania.
The Derwent at Bellerive with Mt Wellington in the background.Bellerive Beach, near the cricket ground, Hobart Tasmania.The beach at Stanley in north-west Tasmania.Table Cape, north-west TasmaniaEarly morning view of Strahan taken from our hotel in the Strahan Village.
A group of Barbies I was photographing for our doll blog.
Today I’ve been busy taking doll photos and haven’t got out of the house to photograph anything new for this blog so I am going to do something that I rarely do and post a doll photo.
This was taken using the photo cube and lighting that I bought recently. The kit came with additional backgrounds so I used a dark blue one for this shot. I’m still experimenting with this set up but I think this one came out not too badly.
Here are a few photos I have gathered together for this challenge. Some of them I had to try to work out the ages but I think I am mostly correct with them. Here they are.
C and K Ellis 1888Many of the headstones are over 100 years oldOatlands Mill 1837Very Old Playing Cards. these would have to QualifySemaphore Water Tower 1880. This is in South Australia.This is my old piano. I am told it dates back before 1910.One of my beloved Teddy Bears. He is from around 1910This Underwood Typewriter is from around 1911A very old coach and trunks from years ago.
While I generally try to avoid getting other people in my photos sometimes photographing the photographers can be fun and sometimes a way to get a casual photo of a friend or relative when they are occupied and not thinking about posing.
Rail fans love taking line side photos of trains, my friend Bruce is somewhere in this picture.
Rail fans form a photo line by the track.
Here is Bruce taking photos while we were on a cruise on the Gordon River near Strahan six years ago this weekend. It was not a nice day but he persevered.
Bruce taking photos on our Gordon River cruise.
I took this one of David at Port Huon a few years ago. He always had a camera in the car in case he saw something he wanted to photograph although he rarely ever seemed to get a film developed once we moved here. He was thinking about buying a DSLR when he was taken ill.
David at Port Huon 2014
Photographer at work, Gardens By the Bay , Singapore. From my point of view they spoiled my picture of the Super Trees but as a picture of a photographer and model it works.
Taking photos at Garden’s on the Bay.
Cameras
This is the camera I use most often now.
My Pentax K10
As I have mentioned in the past David used to collect cameras. These next two photos are of some of them. First a Bell & Howell 8mm movie camera and then two instant cameras, one by Polaroid and the other by Kodak.
An old movie camera from David’s collection.A Polaroid 1000 Land Canera and a Kodak Instant Camera
This last one is Paparazzi Dog, a bronze sculpture in Salamanca Place. There are a series of these in various cities around the world. I even saw one in Singapore though I neglected to photograph it.
