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A walk by the river

Yesterday evening, we all went out to dinner and then for a walk along the Eastside Esplanade. We were up by the Steel Bridge, it was dusk, and I had my camera.

The bait we used to convince the bears to go on this walk was "maybe we'll see a train!", and the Union Pacific was happy to cooperate by sending a transfer freight south towards Brooklyn Yard.

There's a little dock out on the floating bridge part of the esplanade, and we all walked out onto it to enjoy the view of the bridges, with three bridges to the north (even if you can't really see the Fremont Bridge).

... and at least two bridges to the south (there are five bridges within about a mile and a half, but the Ross Island Bridge, the Marquam Bridge, and the Hawthorne Bridge aren't really visible in this picture.) But, as a consolation prize, you can see a Homeland Security gunyacht as it makes its evening rounds of the downtown bridges.

When you look south from the floating bridge, the Hawthorne bridge is nicely framed by the Morrison Bridge.

It was getting dark before we went back, so we got to see bridges, Union Station, and a trolleycar silhouetted against the sunset.

Comments


Those or some great shots. Dusk is a fun time to shoot if you can get away with the slow shutter speed.

michaelsean Sat May 7 18:12:04 2005

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