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Auckland Harbour Bridge


Auckland Harbour Bridge
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Copyright: Dawn McKenzie Wykes (Dawn) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1134 W: 100 N: 3364] (17540)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-06-19
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Canon G5
Exposure: f/4, 1/160 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Bridges of the World, My favorite bridge images [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-06-19 3:47
Viewed: 2162
Favorites: 2 [view]
Points: 42
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Auckland Harbour Bridge was opened on 30th of May 1959 and it took over 200 workers around 4 years to build.

It was made with 6500 tonnes of concrete and nearly 6000 tonnes of steel.

When the bridge was first built it only had four lanes but after a few years they needed to make the bridge bigger to cope with all the traffic so they added two lanes to each side. The new lanes were called "clippons" because they were made in Japan, shipped to New Zealand on huge ships and then clipped into place with huge steel pins and rods.

The Auckland Harbour Bridge cost 16 million dollars to build over 40 years ago! The clippons were another 13.5 million dollars.

They decided to build a harbour bridge because the traffic wanting to go from Auckland City to the North Shore or vice versa was growing all the time and the trip round the harbour through West Auckland used to take hours.

Before the bridge was built vehicles and passengers also used ferries to get from one side to the other.

The span between the water and the bridge is about 15 stories high - high enough for most yachts to sail under but not high enough for many of the cruise ships, tankers and cargo ships that come into the Auckland Wharfs.

The Bridge is 1,021 meters long (nearly 10 RUGBY fields long!).

Today was a beautiful sunny winters day (sunday 19th June 05) and I was inspired by Puffy, KiwiRob, Coasties and Jancie to go out and photograph Auckland!....This was taken as the sun was going down...

Dawn.
chrisJ, joebatista, puffy, danieltowsey, Janice, vsinopoulos, n0xdw, mlopes, cstathoulis, annagrace, KiwiRob, lemon_logix, seneca77, eyesthetix, Alita, evgenia has marked this note useful
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  • chrisJ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4349 W: 420 N: 7225] (44241)
  • [2005-06-19 3:52]
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Hi Dawn

Great use of a strong, compositional diagonal, to add dynamism. Good color, sharpness, & lighting. Well done!

This crystal clear image is simply beautiful and an absolutely joy to look at.
thank you dawn

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  • puffy Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1791 W: 128 N: 3006] (16621)
  • [2005-06-19 4:47]
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LOL, hi Dawn, believe or not, this afternoon around 3pm, Brian (C41) and I both are under the bridge taking the same kind of photos, the different is we are on the other site (CBD) Great shot, I like the lighting, it make the bridge look like gold colour. Great composition too. Excellent job, Thanks for sharing. :)

Hi Dawn,
This is a nice shot.. Composition is perfect with such great perspective.. I like that city view below the bridge..
Color and lighting is also good but I treid a workshop.. I hope you like it..
Take care..
..Calayan

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  • padre Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 1419 W: 90 N: 263] (4035)
  • [2005-06-19 11:16]
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Excellent composition and very warm colors. You did a fabulous job Dawn. B

Good POV of the Coat Hanger, Dawn. And what an excellent time of day to take it too. The lighting is perfect. Well composed, with good colours and details. Well done, thank you.

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  • nahal Silver Star Critiquer [C: 29 W: 3 N: 3] (84)
  • [2005-06-20 14:08]
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What a beautiful view of a bridge , the photo is cool, so clear and the sharpness is great.
very well down! TFS.
Nahal

Brilliant POV and composition, nice soft lighting and colors. You have done an excellent job with this image. Great informative notes.
Vassilis

Great perspective Dawn and DOF too. I was in Aukland for the first time in March this year - stayed in North Shore - beautiful country.

Tim.

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  • SILVA Gold Star Critiquer [C: 321 W: 0 N: 0] (3917)
  • [2005-06-22 15:00]
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wow..great pic..this is very good the dof,the sharpness,light..perfect..congrats my friend..very good job

And you did well to photo photograph Auckland, you've got at least one impressive photo... this one!

I always like a good note, and you sure are a great note writer, and i'm not talking about the poems, those are fantastic

Good colours, good POV and light

Well done Dawn

Kiss from Portugal

Mario

Excellent composition and very good POV.
Well done & TFS :)

Beautiful image Dawn! I love the late afternoon light and the flag on top is a bonus! Nice post, TFS.

Alli

Dawn,
beautiful shot, I like the colours of the sunset seen on the bridge. Nice details and POV.
cheers
ToM

tres jolie pont avec en arriere plan AUCKLAND!
bon contraste et lumiere !
bravo!
bye....tanbinh.

I've seen a few photos of this bridge, but I think this is the nicest one yet. The colors from the setting sun are very dramatic, the clouds in the background sky are a nice touch also. I love the tree framing the shot and the deep shadows starting to form, well done!

Hi Dawn, I've got some very similar shots of the bridge on slides, I don't have a scanner so can't post them. The clippons are also referred to as the Nippon Clippons. If you have ever walked over the bridge you can see the clippons moving, the rise and fall about half a meter.

You've inspired me to go out an shoot them again in digital.

the golden glow on the bridge makes it look so magnificent. thank you for all the detailed notes on this wonderful bridge.
Shot at a good angle too.

Hi Dawn,

Wonderful photo! Your handling of the exposure and capturing of the beautiful colors gives it almost a magical look. Everything is so right about this image...the strong diagonal and sense of scale and perspective, the golden color and the pastels of the sky, the framing from the trees. Excellent!

"Perryhooter" here on TL has a similar pic.

Cheers,
- Bob

What a wonderfull bridge. It's amazing how these are built. It's what gets us across the water.

Love this photo of the harbour bridge! i been trying to take good photos of the bridge but still aiming for it hehe.
How'd you get so close up?
Great composition, sharpness and colour.

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  • Alita Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 157 W: 29 N: 0] (917)
  • [2006-09-27 9:56]

Hi Dawn,
really amazing shot with this rose sunset light, reat POV!
thanks for sharing!

hi Dawn,
your POV here is superb. There is also this sort of yellow ochre hue on the bridge as well, an interesting feature.

well done.
Regards, Daniel.

Hello, Dawn,
you have chosen the "golden hour" to take this shot, and the reflection of the sun's rays really shows warm colours. Your point of view gives an interesting diagonal composition to the image, and I really like the "natural" frame from the trees on the side.
Regards, Evgenia

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