untitled river and woodland pics

[bribrius]

 

[Ron Evers]

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The authority needs to get some armour around that left abutment before they loose the bridge.

???? looks like it is bolted down to a giant cement block??? water gets pretty high there but hasn't washed it out yet??

The bridge is sitting on a newer CONCRETE abutment which in turn is sitting on an older CONCRETE footing that is in danger of being undermined by the stream. See how the other side is being protected from the stream erosion.

 

[bribrius]

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The authority needs to get some armour around that left abutment before they loose the bridge.

???? looks like it is bolted down to a giant cement block??? water gets pretty high there but hasn't washed it out yet??

The bridge is sitting on a newer CONCRETE abutment which in turn is sitting on an older CONCRETE footing that is in danger of being undermined by the stream. See how the other side is being protected from the stream erosion.

lol. don't like me calling concrete cement eh? okay, I get you now. you think the water is going to undermine the older CONCRETE footing. Thing is, I haven't a clue how deep that footing goes. They could have driven it down ten feet and rebarred it to the ledge rock behind. I worked on a bridge crew once and we drove concrete straight down into the middle of rivers. So it could be dead center in the stream and not make a difference. Depends how deep it goes and what it is attached to and what is under it. so if I call someone and you are wrong, they will probably yank out the plans and ask me why I just wasted there time driving over there from wherever (state I guess?) for no reason. so in all seriousness, do you actually think you are correct about this or will I look like a moron if I call?

 

[Ron Evers]

It may be deeply footed or it may be on piles but it would not hurt to report your observation & let the authority know so the call is theirs. I saw a highway bridge footing undermined exposing the piles & that became a very expensive restoration.

The cement/concrete thing is a peeve of mine; cement is what holds concrete together. Unfortunately Joe average is exposed to the wrong terminology all the time by the media so one cannot really blame him. The media usually call transit concrete mixers "cement trucks". I will try to link a pic of a true cement truck which hauls the cement powder to the mixing plants.

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[bribrius]

It may be deeply footed or it may be on piles but it would not hurt to report your observation & let the authority know so the call is theirs. I saw a highway bridge footing undermined exposing the piles & that became a very expensive restoration.

The cement/concrete thing is a peeve of mine; cement is what holds concrete together. Unfortunately Joe average is exposed to the wrong terminology all the time by the media so one cannot really blame him. The media usually call transit concrete mixers "cement trucks". I will try to link a pic of a true cement truck which hauls the cement powder to the mixing plants.

Edit: that did not work.

i really don't even think about the terminology. I go to lowes I throw ten bags of ready mix on it if I am doing cement (sorry concrete) stairs. Doing outside of rock throw on ten of Portland cement. Doing some brick pointing or something ten of mortar. I order some I will ask for five yards mix it thin, stiff, depends. I really don't pay much attention to the terminology but I usually know what to grab for what I need. Generally speaking I am privy to Portland cement and mixing my own, but really don't do much of that kind of work. Last thing I did was my cement stairs or I think I touched up a foundation, don't remember it was a few years back..

 

[Gary A.]

bribrius -

I am not a fan (yet) of your stuff. But, I appreciate that you seem to to working very diligently with your photography. In the beginning your stuff seemed to reek of Beginning Photography 10. But it is getting much better very quickly. Your images, including these, all have an awkwardness to them. I initially thought the lack of seamlessness or silkiness was due to skill and experience ... but now I think it may be your style. Your images are abrupt and awkward because that is how you see. I think that is a good thing ... that you shoot how you see and not how others would like you to see. Does your style work for me ... not yet ... is your style successful with stand alone images, not really ... but as a body of work, your stuff is interesting ... rude and abrupt ... but interesting.

Gary

PS- Remember you must know the rules before you break them.
G

 

[bribrius]

bribrius -

I am not a fan (yet) of your stuff. But, I appreciate that you seem to to working very diligently with your photography. In the beginning your stuff seemed to reek of Beginning Photography 10. But it is getting much better very quickly. Your images, including these, all have an awkwardness to them. I initially thought the lack of seamlessness or silkiness was due to skill and experience ... but now I think it may be your style. Your images are abrupt and awkward because that is how you see. I think that is a good thing ... that you shoot how you see and not how others would like you to see. Does your style work for me ... not yet ... is your style successful with stand alone images, not really ... but as a body of work, your stuff is interesting ... rude and abrupt ... but interesting.

Gary

PS- Remember you must know the rules before you break them.
G

these are all trash shots but the first one. And the first one posted isn't the one I am considering keeping it is a different edit. Bw low contrast under exposed low sharpness and has more of a haunted feel going. Pretty much near the opposite edit. And even that isn't really worth keeping as in bw it is busy looking unless I re edit again and darken it even more.
Honestly, looking through the photos on here I oversaturated the chit on some of them, and the first problem might be they are landscape shots which generally speaking bore the begeezus out of me. Pretty much anything shot for landscape that day, in color, is crap. the light wasn't there and in the woods the iso is in the 1500 to 2k range on hand held everything is soft or shot in low aperature. and not even worth the color and noise reduction efforts. winter here color is non existent right now. Delete, delete, delete, delete.

I learned a lesson on rules a few months back. I critiqued a photographer photo (not here elsewhere) on something he had in the foreground that "broke the rules". In which he basically told me to go fruck myself and that he had been doing this for 35 years and will put whatever the hell he wants to in the foreground as he sees fit. LMAO... Then he gave me this freakn list of all the places he had been published so I basically did stfu. he just taught me something right then though and I didn't even see it coming.