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.
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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.
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The images below capture both the stark industrial concrete structure and the rural location on the banks of the River Orwell.
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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.
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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.
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The images below capture both the stark industrial concrete structure and the rural location on the banks of the River Orwell.
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To view the full size images click and scroll through the gallery.
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proposed lrps panel
Over the past few weeks I have been encouraged and advised by Tony Bramley FRPS to put together a 'panel' of images and apply for my LRPS accreditation.
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Basically, you have to select 10 images using various photographic techniques and arrange them so that when viewed as a whole the 10 images create an 11th picture.
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The top picture shows how they will look when they are printed out and presented on 16" x 20" mounts.
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For the time being I am putting this little project on hold as the Advisory Day and Assessment Days are being held on line via Zoom meetings and should the current situation allow, I'd really like to print everything out and take them and be there in person.
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Top left to right - Common Blue Butterfly (Natural History) - Lemon & Lime Splash (Flash Photography) A House for Essex (Infra Red Photography) - Faith (Studio Portrait) - Snowdrop (Macro Photography)
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Bottom Left to Right - Soho at Dusk (Street Photography) - House at Dungeness (Long Exposure) Gabby Baldocci, The Gift - Gig Photography - The Berlin Wall (Journalist Photography) - Light Trails (Second Curtain Flash)
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And just in case, there are also 5 spares. Contemporary Photography
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