the orwell bridge
the orwell bridge
29th January 2020
Having worked in Ipswich in the late 1990's I became quite familiar with it on my daily journey. Opened in December 1982 it completed the much needed bypass around Ipswich and the relentless heavy traffic bound for Felixstowe docks no longer rumbled through the town centre.
I needed a starting point for my project and this geographically being the furthest east seemed the natural place to start. I had never ventured off the well trodden path of the A14 and had no idea you could access the base of this majestic structure.
For some reason unknown to man, I am drawn to the delights of Brutalist Concrete Architecture and these pillars and posts really 'floated my boat' and form the main part of this set of photographs.
It was a bright and chilly winters afternoon when I visited this site just east of Wherstead in Suffolk and with the sun setting in the west a lovely golden glow was cast over the bridge brightening up the cold grey concrete and creating some warm reflections in the River Orwell.
The images below capture both the stark industrial concrete structure and the rural location on the banks of the River Orwell.
To view the full size images click and scroll through the gallery.
29th January 2020
Having worked in Ipswich in the late 1990's I became quite familiar with it on my daily journey. Opened in December 1982 it completed the much needed bypass around Ipswich and the relentless heavy traffic bound for Felixstowe docks no longer rumbled through the town centre.
I needed a starting point for my project and this geographically being the furthest east seemed the natural place to start. I had never ventured off the well trodden path of the A14 and had no idea you could access the base of this majestic structure.
For some reason unknown to man, I am drawn to the delights of Brutalist Concrete Architecture and these pillars and posts really 'floated my boat' and form the main part of this set of photographs.
It was a bright and chilly winters afternoon when I visited this site just east of Wherstead in Suffolk and with the sun setting in the west a lovely golden glow was cast over the bridge brightening up the cold grey concrete and creating some warm reflections in the River Orwell.
The images below capture both the stark industrial concrete structure and the rural location on the banks of the River Orwell.
To view the full size images click and scroll through the gallery.
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cudmore grove, east mersea
2nd December 2021
After a break of some 22 months I resumed my 'Between the Bridges' photography project by making the short journey to Cudmore Grove Country Park at East Mersea.
It was early afternoon when I arrived and the extremely bright sun was already beginning to drop in the sky. Wrapped up well, I set off across the meadow which lead to the beach. The blue sky and sunshine were extremely deceiving as there was a very strong wind coming off the estuary and it was bitterly cold.
However, I was happy to be outside in the fresh air as I'd been laid low for a few days with a horrible cold and thought being outside would do me good. Heading out on my walk the sun was behind me and the view ahead although colourful was photographically speaking not very exciting, so I concentrated my efforts in to shooting 'contre jour' (into the light).
The sun really was very bright which made it very difficult to see what I was doing and what with the strong wind and being rather chilly it was a challenge to get things right.
I was only there for about an hour and took around 25 images. For me, the four edited images below represent what I was trying to achieve photographically that day, which was picking out the patterns and shapes on the muddy estuary and the silhouettes of the distant wind farm. Image #1 is in colour, but I converted the other 3 into monochrome as the colours weren't very inspiring.
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