Daily Photo – Carter Road Lift Bridge

Daily Photo – Carter Road Lift Bridge
Carter Road Lift Bridge (Click image for larger view or to purchase)

The two bridges in this view span the river at Carter Road. The blue bridge is active and carries the road traffic. The rusting bridge in front of it carried one of the railway spurs that used to serve the industrial area known locally as The Flats.

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Daily Photo – Grand Rapids Sunset

Daily Photo – Grand Rapids Sunset
Grand Rapids Sunset (Click image for larger view or to purchase)

What I liked particularly about this scene was the strip of cloud obscuring the sun. Below the cloud, the sun is casting radiant colors while above the sun is illuminating the higher clouds seemingly from below making the bottoms white and the tops grey.

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Daily Photo – Pearl Street Rapid

Daily Photo – Pearl Street Rapid
Pearl Street Rapid (Click image for larger view or to puchase)

I took this image from the eastern side of the Grand River, just north of the Pearl Street Bridge. I didn't have my tripod with me so to steady the camera I braced it on the railing alongside the footpath.

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Daily Photo – Liddington from Upham

Daily Photo – Liddington from Upham
Liddington from Upham (Click image for larger view or to purchase)

This view is from near the top of Upham hill looking north over Aldbourne Warren in the foreground, and Liddington Warren in the mid-ground to the clump of trees marking Liddington Hill.

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