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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2nd February 2024 Shamefully, it was almost 2 years to the day that I last worked on my Between the Bridges project. A lot has happened over that period, with the majority of the time taken up with a very stressful house move which left little time for photography projects and updating websites. So, better late than never, we decided to blow away the cobwebs with a trip to the coast, which was an ideal opportunity to resume work on this project. It was quite a dull day which put me into black and white mode, which the majority of these images are. When I originally edited the images I really wasn't overwhelmed with the black and whites. They were flat and dull. I was no longer happy with my tried and trusted editing technique, so decided to investigate Silver Efex. Specialist Black & White editing software. I'm really happy with the results, they have more punch and detail which really suits my style of photography. As for the day. We had a pleasant Sunday stroll from the greensward at Dovercourt to the Halfpenny Pier in Harwich and back. And these images capture the mood of the afternoon, especially the ones taken on the return journey when the sun was glistening on the water. An enjoyable few hours out which has whetted my appetite to resume this project. To view the full size images click and scroll through the gallery.
