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Regno Unito, Londra, Archway, Inverno 2015
A Hornsey Lane, tra il 1897 e il 1900, il precedente ponte ideato da Nash venne sostituito con l'attuale ponte di ferro. Sebbene la vista su Londra sia fantastica, starsene in piedi qui è difficile senza pensare alle anime tormentate di coloro che in questo stesso posto hanno deciso di mettere fine alle loro vite. A quanto pare infatti questo ponte è uno dei luoghi con più suicidi al mondo tanto da meritarsi il soprannome di “Suicide Bridge”. Quando, alla fine del 2010, tre uomini in tre settimane si suicidarono gettandosi dal ponte, fu istituita dai residenti locali una campagna per mettere in atto misure anti-suicidio.
Between 1897 and 1900, Nash's bridge was replaced with the present cast-iron Hornsey Lane Bridge. The view across London is fantastic, but standing here it is hard not to be jostled by the spirits of the troubled souls who must have stood in exactly the same place before ending their lives. It is apparently one of the most frequented such places worldwide. When, at the end of 2010, three men in three weeks committed suicide by jumping from the bridge, a campaign was set up by local residents for better anti-suicide measures to be put in place.
I could not have taken this shot without Cris.
I have been wanting to take this picture for a long time. Recently I Googled it and found an article about the bridge. It pointed out that the bridge will soon have some very serious suicide fencing installed. This is because it is very high and sadly often used for this purpose. So taking a snap from there became a priority this week.
It was not easy! The railings already on the bridge are too high for my tripod. So I attempted handheld which obviously wasn't going to work for any type of long expo. Next I tried shooting from underneath the rails. This worked... after a while! It was a windy night and the camera was kind of balancing on a little support... Looots of blurry shots! However finally after a long struggle, I got this one. Hope you like :)
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Long exposure of the famous Clifton Suspension Bridge based upon a design by Brunel. Built in 1864 & still in constant use.
210 & 134 Freeways meet here next to the Colorado Street Bridge, Pasadena, CA
Another fun Meet Up with the Los Angeles flickr group - more photos here www.flickr.com/groups/lagroup/discuss/72157622051135058/
We had some magical weather last week. I had to jump out of my car with the hazard lights on to get this. We don't get many rainbows in Pasadena. Please view this one large.
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Shooting alongside my friend Nick Kepner, we went up to the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, also known as the Suicide Bridge to do some architecture photography and to work on doing some more long exposure photography. This was the end result of trying to land a bus in your shot.
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The Colorado Street Bridge on old Route 66 has the unlucky nickname of Suicide Bridge as 750 people have jumped to their death after the bridge was built in the 1930's The alcoves with benches and a place to climb over has made this beautiful bridge a place of untimely demise. www.californiatochicago.com insta @calitochicago Facebook California to Chicago
The Colorado Street Bridge is a historic concrete arch bridge spanning the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California. Dawn was a fellow student at Art Center College of Design. Taken in March of 1984.
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Now this is the famous suicide bridge, also known as the Highgate Archway or the Archway bridge. It's popular choice for self-termination owing to the great distance between it and the A1 road under it.
Looks like Haringey council must be getting fed up cleaning the mess below on the A1, so they've recently erected tall barriers on the bridge. Now try getting over that!
To be honest, seeing dozens of CT Plus Solos going up and down this route is enough to send anyone over the edge!
Anyhow, it was a cracker of a morning in this affluent part of the world as OS14 crosses the bridge en route to Harringay.
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This is 4 light painted shots of the bridge with Nikon D850 and one tracked shot of the sky, from the same position, of 60 seconds at ISO 1600, with Nikon D800 astro modified camera.
Taken 11/3/ 2024
There is another story about how this bridge got its name but this is the information I found in the S.A. Heritage Places Database Search (S.A. Gov)
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The old coach route to Wentworth in New South Wales cut through desolate country to the north of the Murray Valley and was in use until the early twentieth century. 'Suicide Bridge' is one of the few surviving structures associated with that adventurous coaching era. Its curious names probably relate to the terrifying night-time coach crossings during storms or floods. This item is a highly significant vernacular structure. It is made of native pine with split eucalyptus decking. Nearby, to the east, are the remains of old telegraph posts which were once part of the overland telegraph between South Australia and New South Wales. To the west is an example of early timber roadside fencing..
The Bridge has now been renamed to 'Old Coach Road Bridge.' in 2025
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The Fremont Troll (also known as The Troll, or the Troll Under the Bridge) is a piece of public art in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
Artists: Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter, Ross Whitehead
Year: 1990
Type: Sculpture
Dimensions: 5.5 m (18 ft)
Location: Seattle
Owner: City of Seattle
The Troll is a mixed media colossal statue, located on N. 36th Street at Troll Avenue N., under the north end of the Aurora Bridge. It is clutching an actual Volkswagen Beetle, as if it had just swiped it from the roadway above. The vehicle has a California license plate.
He is interactive—visitors are encouraged to clamber on him or try to poke out his one good eye (a hubcap). The Troll is 5.5 m (18 ft) high, weighs 6,000 kg (13,000 lb), and is made of steel rebar, wire, and concrete.
Aurora Avenue North was renamed "Troll Avenue" in its honor in 2005 and the troll was entered in the soapbox derby in 2007.
The piece was the winner of a competition sponsored by the Fremont Arts Council in 1990, in part with the goal of rehabilitating the area under the bridge which was becoming a dumping ground and haven for drug dealers. It was built later that same year. The idea of a troll living under a bridge is derived from the Scandinavian folk tale "Three Billy Goats Gruff."
Information source: www.wikipedia.org
April 2, 2011, Freemont, Seattle, under the Aurora bridge here.
Colorado Street Bridge, Pasadena, CA
Another fun Meet Up with the Los Angeles flickr group - more photos here www.flickr.com/groups/lagroup/discuss/72157622051135058/
Suicide Bridge off of Route 66.
The first tragedy on the bridge occurred before construction was even complete. Allegedly, when one of the bridge workers toppled over the side and plunged headfirst into a vat of wet concrete, his co-workers assumed he could not be saved in time and left his body in the quick-drying cement. His is only one of the many souls said to haunt the “Suicide Bridge.”
The first suicide occurred on November 16, 1919 and was followed by a number of others, especially during the Great Depression. Over the years, it is estimated that more than 100 people took their lives leaping the 150 feet into the arroyo below. One of the more notable suicides was when a despondent mother threw her baby girl over the railing on May 1, 1937. She then followed her into the depths of the canyon. Though the mother died, her child miraculously survived. Evidently, her mother had inadvertently tossed her into some nearby trees, and she was later recovered from the thick branches.
According to the tales, a number of spirits are said to wander the bridge itself as well as the arroyo below. Others have heard unexplained cries coming from the canyon. One report tells of spectral man that is often seen wandering the bridge who wears wire rimmed glasses. Other people have claimed to see a woman in a long flowing robe, who stands atop one of the parapets, before vanishing as she throws herself off the side.
All of the information above was from the Legends of America website. www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-suicidebridge.html
"Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet,
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine."
- from 'The Waste Land'
by TS Eliot
Pasadena, California
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Spotmatic II | SMC Takumar 28mm | Arista Edu Ultra 100
Colorado Street bridge steps (north). 11:30 pm
Pasadena CA
Roll #145, Frame 13. 1m; f/8 [ev 1]
Dev: Rodinal (1:25, 225mL), 4 min @ 18°C (EI 50). 5 sec roll agitation / min.
Spotmatic II | Industar 50-2 | Arista Edu Ultra 100
Anti-jumping fences. Noon.
Roll #145, Frame 23. 1/125; f/11 [ev 15]
Dev: Rodinal (1:25, 225mL), 4 min @ 18°C (EI 50). 5 sec roll agitation / min.
Under the Colorado Street Bridge, built 1913, in Pasadena California, with Ventura Fwy in distance. [#11 in album of 18]
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9 exposure HDR, photomatix 4.0.2
The George Washington Memorial Bridge (commonly called the Aurora Bridge) is a cantilever and truss bridge that carries Aurora Avenue N. (State Route 99) over the west end of Seattle's Lake Union between Queen Anne and Fremont, just east of the Fremont Cut. The bridge is 2,945 ft (898 m) long, 70 ft (21 m) wide, and 167 ft (51 m) above the water, and is owned and operated by the Washington State Department of Transportation.
The bridge was opened to traffic on February 22, 1932. It was accepted to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The bridge is a popular location for suicide jumpers and numerous reports have used the bridge as a case study in fields ranging from suicide prevention to the effects of prehospital care on trauma victims. News sources have referred to the George Washington Memorial Bridge as a suicide bridge
Source: www.wikipedia.org
April 2, 2011, Freemont, Seattle, under the Aurora bridge here.
by teenabeenastyle ift.tt/1LF1Yds This was a night full of paranoia. Maybe because we were at the #suicidebridge #pasadena #nighttimeadventure #latergram
Pasadena, California, and 2-lane Colorado Street Bridge, completed 1913, with arches rising 150 ft from canyon floor. Dubbed "Suicide Bridge" for tragic & obvious reasons, the bridge and arroyo below are rich in ghost stories & cast of characters. [#16 in album of 18]