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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I am currently working on three projects. My LRPS panel is ready to put in for it's Advisory Day, but I'm waiting until I can attend in person as opposed to doing it via a Zoom meeting. I absolutely detest Zoom meetings and really don't want my work to be critiqued via an online meeting. Having put a lot of time and effort into getting everything together and wanting to print everything out myself I'm happy to wait.
Between the Bridges was conceived in 2018/19, but has been besieged by various set backs. I am now resurrecting the project which involves working my way along the Essex coast between the Orwell Bridge near Ipswich to the QEII Bridge at Dartford. It is very much an ongoing project but my intention to eventually produce a book or at the very least a calendar.
Halstead Town. Although somewhat lapsed, I have been going to Rosemary Lane since we moved to Halstead in 1970. The idea behind this project is to capture the flavour of a local non league football club featuring the people and its surroundings as well as developing my skills at sports photography.Again an ongoing project, but it will be interesting to see how things develop.
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