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Published: 2004-05-12 02:51:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 1447; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 152
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... a new pedestrian bridge leading over the railroad tracks to the public fishing dock at Myrtle Edwards Park in Seattle... it's hard not to get a rush of vertigo as you walk from one end to the other...Related content
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... thanks for blowing the dust off this old pic, I'm glad you liked it!
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I adore this picture. You were brilliant not to toy with it and leave it raw. I have a surpressed fear of heights and I'm gettng a cheap thrill from staring at it.
Fabulous.
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wow, this looks really interesting. your photo nicely captures the strange architecture
memod
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groovy bridge ya got there, I would have quite fun on it
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... thx Kerry... the exterior is actually more exciting than the interior, but it doesn't lend itself well to photography because you stand underneath it while it spans a chain of graffiti-laden boxcars...
... hmmm... then again, constrasts like that might be what I should shoot for...
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wow.. what is this place?? rollercoaster track? 
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One could simply get lost in looking at the design and all the interesting angles here and not pay any attention to where they are walking....guess it's a good thing they have the guardrails for protection
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One could simply get lost in looking at the design and all the interesting angles here and not pay any attention to where they are walking....guess it's a good thing they have the guardrails for protection
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You should just start running in circles one day screaming.
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... what do you suggest? ... clockwise or counterclockwise?
... *panic attack* ... I'm so confoozled...
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aye, that's the spirit!
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one of the coolest most unique photo's I've seen, very nice.
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this place is awesome, I love the modern architecture that also serves a function. I'd like to see more of this guy's work, any idea who he/she is?
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... I'll definitely look into it...
... the exterior is even more captivating, but I couldn't get a decent shot at the time (a moving van was in the way of the vantage point I wanted...)
... the way the supports form a continuously graceful tilt, common sense tells you it would fall over at any second...
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lol i jus saw this on miko's page and now on yours
im like wtf?! duplicates?!?!?!
seattle mang
i didnt know u from there! did u ever show up to any of the washington meets?? lol
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... yes I did as a matter of fact, got to meet `jasinski and a handful of other great people...
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where u in the group photos though?
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... I don't remember anyone taking group photos... yeah, I know, what a bunch of lamers...
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lol well is that an unofficial meet then?? whatever its supposed to maen??
lol coz not too long ago they had a seattle devmeet photos around...
so i guess u didnt go to that one
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"... unofficial?"
... I know of a recent Seattle devmeet, all of them photographers that went on "photo safari"... I wasn't aware of that one until after it happened (probably because I'm not a forum whore anymore)...
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Well I saw this, its from the washington site 
Is it b/c ur cool that you havent been or heard of this one?
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... yeah, right... I'm cool...
:eyeroll:
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lol
come here
i guess your meet was more senior related then! no noobs
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I love all this modern shit.
Well, not to derogatise it...cos this is a great photo. The way you took the picture in the centre of the walkway makes this look almost...kaleidascope-like.
One thing that might need to be changed, if you wanted to, is the stains on the floor, dirty dirty. ^_>
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... sorry, I forgot to bring my mop before I took the picture...
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Well man...next time you take a picture of something with concrete on it, I strongly insist you bring a mop, a bucket, and some chewing gum remover type thingy stuff. Cos there's always gonna be a concrete walkway with chewing gum stuck on it. Those crazy, chewing-gum-chewing kids...whyioughta...!
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crap. i think i'mma throw up. soooooo pretty, but i'm getting dizzy. eep.
i saw something like this when i was in washington, but i don't think it was quite this trippy. are there other things like this?
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... lots, especially around the Seattle Center and the Experience Music Project (which IMHO looks like a big pile of technicolor mashed potatoes on acid...)
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thats pretty crazy looking, now i just want to know whos smart idea was it to starting making bridges that make you dizzy O_o
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Wow! That is wild-- almost cant tell which way is up! Love all the lines and reflections and colors peeking in-- great shot hon
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... I wish I had a nice SLR instead of this cheesedip FujiFilm automatic, otherwise I'd be able to take some really bitchin shots...
... oh well, I know that if you won the lottery you'd split it with me-- just like if I won the lottery I'd split it with you...
... right?
... RIGHT?
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Excelent piece of architecture.
If you changed the angle, nobody would know where is top and where bottom
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... at one point, I considered submitting it upside down, but then I noticed there was a faint horizon line in the distance, so I changed my mind...
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Awesome! I'd hate to walk through that after having a drink or two
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... it's where W Prospect St crosses the main drag of Elliott Ave W, next to Blackstock Lumber Supply and the grain elevators... you can't miss it, it looks like a dark blue DNA molecule...
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I see what you mean. Fascinating architectural style, but man, that'd give someone nightmares.
I can see it now, someone's gonna be walking across that thing on their hands and knees...
Cool!
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... at midspan, you can look underneath and watch freight trains go by... I watched a 110-car train pass, then abruptly looked up at the overhead beams.... combine the retinal print of watching a train go "down" plus a constantly changing architecture going "up" and the whole thing's a lot like a rollercoaster experience, but nothing's moving!
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wow, love the little touches cities sometimes add to basic, boring objects..
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Now that is a beautiful piece of architecture.
Ever wanted to get into photography?
The right lighting and filters and stuff could make this place look pimpER than it already is.
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... I do enjoy photography and find it entertaining, but personally never found it as captivating as other forms of expression like drawing and writing... I guess that's why I'm really not all that good at it-- because I'm not all that passionate about it as other things...
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Each to his/her own, of course
I wonna learn photography though.
I used to despise it actually, and never thought of it as a form of art till like, 1 or 2 years ago
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I don't know about vertigo, but I'd feel very uncertain about where I'd end up...
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... on the other side is this vast open space that has been procured by the Seattle Art Museum's as their new "Sculpture Park"... apparently they have more works than they know what to do with, so they're planning an open-air semi-permanent exhibit on the other side of the walkway (facing west and towards saltwater...)
... did you ever read the book "A Wrinkle In Time"?
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In third grade, can't say I remember it...
I don't think I'd make it to the other side... either because I'd get lost in there or I like it way too much to come out.
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that is very cool and oddly trippy. i love the interesting angles
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... thank you for observations... at one point, I considered messing with it in Photoshop to make it more psychedelic, but nothing could compare to the reality behind the existing architecture and how this maze of wires and canvas could possibly hold up a vast concrete sidewalk...
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