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A candid street portrait of a construction or civil engineering worker who stands in the middle of the street, smokes a cigarette, and looks at some distant object while touching a chest pocket of his working wear with his right hand. Black and white version.
This early morning view of the Roosevelt Bridge and waterfront condo's was photographed in Stuart, Florida. See this, and more, on my website at tom-claud.pixels.com.
Glen Canyon Dam, Page AZ
Even at 21mm on a FF sensor, I could not take in the enormity of this civil engineering marvel. Located on the famous Colorado River, the same river that trickles its way through the Grand Canyon, the dam forms Lake Powell (in the background).
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley. Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. After a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea, the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million in 1906–07 to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped in vain would be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border. As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric-power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapse—including an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam. In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site for a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river. The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money.
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This nighttime view of the Jensen Beach Causeway was seen from the Snook Nook in Jensen Beach, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
The assembly would have been crane handled into position onto the 5no Adjustable Support Brackets visible underneath the panels. The All Steel panels arrive onto site flat and are then 'formed' on curved shaping tables.The 5 Vertical Cantilever Soldiers that extend down below the Panels, and touch the existing concrete with adjustable feet, provide a 'plumbing' capability. The Cantilever Access Brackets at the top of the panels provide a Working Platform for the concreting gang.
A field boss and manager stands on the roof of an old building and teaches a worker how to work the worker's work. No business school of the World can compete with this distinguished local Field-Marchal and his special, refined and elaborated scientific vocabulary. Candid street photo.
This walkway leads to the marina under the north end of the Roosevelt Bridge in Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
Sherwood Design Engineers served as civil engineers on the expansion of the garden and worked with NOMA and Reed Hilderbrand to design and implement a low-impact development approach that integrates visitors’ circulation through the garden with green infrastructure landscape systems. The weir and wall design support stormwater flows to mitigate flooding within the Garden.
This night view of the Ringling Causeway was seen from Causeway Park looking east towards Sarasota, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
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An evening walk round an almost deserted town due to the World Cup on TV with England v Tunisia, was very pleasant. Southend Civic Centre on a sunny evening.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley. Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. After a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea, the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million in 1906–07 to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped in vain would be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border. As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric-power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapse—including an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam. In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site for a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river. The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money.
Set in the remote moorland of the West Riding of Yorkshire is the Dent Head Railway Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle Railway.
The Milky Way arching over the Bay Bridge at twilight, with the sky shifting from deep purple to pink and gold near the horizon. The bridge's long span stretches across the frame, and its lights sit under the starry band. It's a quiet, dreamy view of one of the Bay Area's busiest crossings.
A dense pattern of steel trusses seen from below on the Golden Gate Bridge, with the orange-red beams crossing in tight rows. The pale sky behind it makes the steelwork glow. The bridge is a National Historic Landmark.
On account of some flash floods out here in the Mojave Desert, I'm posting a photo from the archives.
Decades ago, I began a project to travel the entire length of US1 from Key West, Florida to Fort Kent, Maine. I estimate having driven over 80% of it during two trips. When you get into New England, you encounter a lot of small coastal towns. Mystic, Connecticut was a place along the way. I liked this bridge because the deck of the bridge weighs 660 tons. Somehow one of the guys from Otis elevator made the thing open and close with two 40 horsepower DC motors. Gears are part of the trick. It takes about 5 minutes to move from fully horizontal to fully open. The two concrete counterweights weigh 230 tons each. It's a clever design for 1922 engineering.
An approaching boat calls the Connecticut Department of Transportation bridge operator via VHF marine radio. Railroad crossing type gates close on each bridge approach. The bridge operator sounds a railroad locomotive class air horn when the bridge is imminently going to open. (I just about jumped out of my shoes when the horn went off.) The bridge operator was female and was friendly and courteous with tourists.
Many people recall the name of the town from an early Julia Roberts movie, Mystic Pizza. The location used for the pizza parlor in the film is not named Mystic Pizza and is actually a couple of miles north of Mystic. Meanwhile in Mystic proper, an entrepreneur has opened a business named Mystic Pizza which is popular with tourists. I'm not sure if they've survived the pandemic.
No mystical pizza for me. For dinner, I ate at a nautical-themed bar. After a long day on the road, it was a great way to wrap up the day.
Cut my pizza in six slices; I can't eat eight.
— Yogi Berra
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3 Forth Bridges.
Lovely still night gave some good reflections.
Fife & the Lothians now linked by 3 bridges (well 2 really, but the 3rd is not too far away!) all roughly at the same point.
On still nights like this, a ferry would be much more romantic, although it would be too busy if there were no bridges.
This fountain, located under the north end of the Roosevelt Bridge, was photographed at night in Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
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Looking along the length of the Ribblehead Viaduct towards Ingleborough, the second highest peak in the Yorkshire Dales at 723 metres (2,372 ft).
The west end of the Jensen Beach Causeway is seen before sunrise in Jensen Beach, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.
The Forth Bridge, a world-famous masterpiece of Victorian civil engineering, dominates this view across the Firth of Forth. Photographed from the beach at South Queensferry, the image looks along the bridge towards North Queensferry, with the afternoon sunlight illuminating its massive stone pier and distinctive red steel framework.
Opened in 1890, the Forth Bridge was a remarkable achievement in engineering. Designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, and built by the Glasgow engineering firm of Sir William Arrol & Co., it stretches approximately 2.5 kilometres across the Forth estuary. Its innovative cantilever design, using enormous steel trusses and thousands of rivets, allowed it to carry railway traffic across the water on a scale previously unseen.
For 28 years, the bridge held the record for the world’s longest cantilever spans. Its bold, functional design has become one of Scotland’s most recognisable landmarks, and in 2015 it was awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in recognition of its outstanding engineering and architectural significance.
The Forth Bridge is also part of a remarkable trio of crossings. The Forth Road Bridge, visible to the left of the photograph, opened in 1964, while the more recent Queensferry Crossing opened in 2017. Together, the three bridges illustrate more than a century of changing engineering techniques, from the great railway bridges of the Victorian era to modern suspension and cable-stayed structures.
From the shoreline at South Queensferry, the view brings together Scotland’s industrial heritage, the broad waters of the estuary and the continuing importance of the Forth as a transport corridor. The sunlight picking out the red steelwork against the surrounding landscape highlights why this extraordinary structure remains both an engineering icon and a compelling photographic subject.
Photographed September 2026
Set in the remote moorland of the West Riding of Yorkshire is the Dent Head Railway Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle Railway.
Scene captured during a day trip to the Waterloopbos in the Netherlands: the sad remains of a hydraulic engineering experiment.
The Golden Gate Bridge seen through a dark archway at Fort Point, with the red steel fading into fog. The black frame makes the bridge glow, and the soft haze makes it look far away.
Lights sparkle along the boardwalk under the Roosevelt Bridge in downtown Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
The Alaskan Way Viaduct is a defunct elevated freeway in Seattle, Washington, United States, that carried a section of State Route 99 (SR 99). The double-decked freeway ran north–south along the city's waterfront for 2.2 miles (3.5 km), east of Alaskan Way and Elliott Bay, and traveled between the West Seattle Freeway in SoDo and the Battery Street Tunnel in Belltown.
The viaduct was built in three phases from 1949 through 1959, with the first section opening on April 4, 1953. It was the smaller of the two major north–south traffic corridors through Seattle (the other being Interstate 5), carrying up to 91,000 vehicles per day in 2016.[1] The viaduct ran above Alaskan Way, a surface street, from S. Nevada Street in the south to the entrance of Belltown's Battery Street Tunnel in the north, following previously existing railroad lines.
The viaduct had long been viewed as a barrier between downtown and the city's waterfront, with proposals to replace it as early as the 1960s. Questions of the structure's seismic vulnerability were raised after several earthquakes damaged similar freeways in other cities, including some with the same design as the viaduct. During the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, the Alaskan Way Viaduct suffered minor damage but later inspections found it to be vulnerable to total collapse in the event of another major earthquake, necessitating its replacement.
The Roosevelt Bridges reflection appears smudged on the moving water of the Saint Lucie River in Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image in my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
Roadford Lake, also known as Roadford Reservoir is a man-made reservoir fed by the River Wolf. The dam which carries a public road was completed at the end of 1989. It is viewed from the dam a few months later as the lake continued to fill.
It is located to the north-east of Broadwoodwidger in West Devon, eight miles (13 km) east of Launceston and is the largest area of fresh water in the southwest of England.
Operated by South West Water, it directly supplies water for North Devon. It also supplies Plymouth and southwest Devon via releases into the River Tamar for abstraction at Gunnislake.
For more 35mm Archive photographs of the Torridge District of Devon please click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Devon/Devon-Torrid...