Railroad Bridge to Nowhere
26 February 2014 -- 57/365
East Providence, Rhode Island
As is typical for Wednesdays, I had very little time at lunch to get my photo. Bold Point Park is only 5 minutes from work, so that's where I headed. The temperature was a bit cold and the wind was bitter, so there was nobody at the park. Instead, I had to make do with this hastily composed photo of the old railroad bridge extending partway into the Seekonk River and the pilings that once carried an old wooden covered bridge from East Providence to Providence. The latter was demolished around the turn of the 20th century, but the railroad bridge was in use until the 1930s. Both are just landscape fixtures today.
Post processing started with a classic filter in Topaz B&W FX. I adjusted color sensitivity sliders, adaptive exposure, regions, contrast, boost black, boost white, and protect highlights. A levels adjustment was added in PSE.
@cejaanderson The crane is involved in salvage. There is a lot of underwater cable, old railroad tracks, and the remains of a couple of bridges at the bottom of that river thanks to the several major hurricanes in the 19th and 20th centuries. The crane's on a barge that spends most of the day out on the river hauling scrap up from the bottom.
