Steel Plates and Bolts. San Francisco, California. April 20, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Steel plates and bolts found on a downtown San Francisco bridge.
This is one of those fun – for the photographer, anyway! – photographs that you might just stumble on while wandering around with the camera and keeping your eyes open. The subject is a detail of some heavy steel plates and connecting bolts on a section of an old bridge (early 20th century?) that crosses an inlet along San Francisco Bay. I had walked across it perhaps a half hour earlier but had been focused on other things. At that time I had looked at the bolts and thought they were interesting, but I wasn’t able to see a photograph in it that excited me. So I continued on.
Later, after photographing some industrial/construction subjects, I walked back the same way and happened to use the other side of the bridge on the return trip. Now the light was a bit different and something about this little section of the structure of the bridge caught my attention. I paused long enough to make three or four handheld shots and then moved on.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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