A couple more from yesterday's drive.

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Drawbridge at Knights Landing, California









Knights Landing

[mnhtnbb]

1. Cool. I really like #3

for the different textures, color palette of silver/brown/black, the lines vs those "bumps" (bolts? rivets?) and that perspective drawing you to forever!

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3. Thanks!

The horizon is off, but it is what it is.

[ManiacJoe]

5. Ditto for #3.

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12. The horizon is off.

I thought about fixing it but I think the slight cant makes it a little more interesting.

[hunter]

8. Rivets, the old fashioned way...

Rebuilding an antique steam engine:

If I recall correctly, these guys even use authentic reproductions of the original air hammers.

In my travels I've run across great lengths of riveted pipelines. The original Los Angeles Aqueduct pipe was riveted. It's difficult to imagine all the labor that went into that, the sheets of metal riveted together on site.



In modern times nearly everything is welded.

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10. I used to see it up in the Sierras.

When I was a kid we camped up there a lot, usually up in the area around Nevada City/North Bloomfield. Old 49'er part of the Gold Country. There used to be a bunch of it up around the old Malakoff hydraulic mine.

[babylonsister]

2. Great pix; love the bridge! The first one especially. nt

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4. Thanks!

[Mira]

6. Fabulous

every one of them.
Thanks!

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7. Thanks, Mira.

I'm glad that you liked them.

[hunter]

9. I like the timelessness of the first photo.

It could be now, it could be closer to the time the bridge was built.

Well, except for that air conditioner in the window, and the modern streetlight...

I like to look for that sort of thing in movies, things like reflection off car windows on the Interstate highway sometimes visible in Westerns. Or airplane contrails.

Alas, nowadays these anachronisms are easily erased digitally, if the setting's not entirely a digital recreation itself.

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11. That bridge was built in 1933.

One of the Roosevelt Administration's WPA projects. A link in time back to the Great Depression.

Knights Landing was founded in 1843, which makes it old as far as towns out here go.