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02-Jun-2024 TRAVELLER

10 Suicide Bridge

This is suicide bridge, built in 1913, though more formally known as the Colorado Street Bridge, in Pasadena California. More than 150 people have jumped from this bridge to their death, but one must also feel some sympathy for the poor people in the Arroyo below waking up to find a new dead body in their front yard or walkers/hikers stumbling across someone crumbled and dead on the trail.

There are three successive fencing barriers built to try to stop this Behavior. I do think the most recent one is and has been successful though. However any real access to the bridge has been severly curtailed. Architecturally this a lovely structure and fun to walk. I think this picture conforms very much to the light and dark theme of this challenge at a bunch of different levels.

Canon EOS 6D Mark II
1/25s f/5.0 at 32.0mm iso3200 full exif

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Canon Image Challenge05-Jun-2024 14:10
I agree - a very conforming shot. Lots of bright light, plenty of dark and darker mid-tones. I keep studying the detail on the left.

However, the most impressive part for me -- a significant street in LA with no traffic and no people.

Jim