Friday My Town Shoot-Out: Bridges

The idea of the Friday My Town Shoot-Out is to post photos of your local community every Friday. This week's assignment was chosen by Elaine from Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.

Photos taken in or near Corvallis, Oregon
The black and white pics were shot in b&w and are unedited

Well, this last week has been quite a week for us-with bridges galore-and lots of fun. The most important bridge of all was created when our oldest son Ben married his partner Chrystal last Saturday.

Even the sun smiled down upon us that day.

But you are probably looking for a more traditional kind of bridge; this is easy to find in Corvallis, a town built on the banks of the Willamette River.

The only way to get into (or out of) my town is by crossing bridges. If you suffer from gephyrophobia (the fear of bridges) here, I suppose you might just as well suffer from agoraphobia (fear of going anywhere at all). Anyway. I took this picture standing under the incoming bridge, looking at the outgoing bridge.



Floods are an issue, so there is a gauge beneath the bridge to show high water marks; it goes up to 31 feet and we would really be in trouble if that happened.

It was unnerving standing under the bridge with that traffic rumbling overhead and some odd graffiti on the wall.

Another familiar bridge is the Irish Bend covered bridge, moved to the edge of the OSU campus, on a much-used biking/running path.

Inside the covered bridge, looking up.

Inside the covered bridge, looking down through some slats at the creek below.

On Monday we ventured west of town to Newport, accompanied by family members who had come for the wedding. This is a footbridge over Little Beaver Creek at Ona Beach State Park.

You have to stand and admire the creek at low tide.

A cast shadow on the creek.

Newport has a magnificent bridge across its bay.

Looking up at the Newport bridge

Standing beneath it

Black-and-white seemed to accentuate its strength.

Looking at the Newport bridge from a crabber's pier below.

I was surprised when a seagull decided to fly into a frame.

Back at home it was really fun to photograph a couple of John's guitars. This is a bridge on a National Steel guitar. I could feel the urge to return to some color....

An irresistible urge! This is a bridge on a steel-stringed guitar.

I had fun with this assignment and can't wait to see what you did with it in your town.