Under the Scary Bridge by myrrhluz

Photography • Architecture • posted on Apr 22, 2010

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This is the bridge on Interstate 10 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It is a cantilever bridge, was built in 1952 and goes over the Calcasieu (KAL-kuh-shoo) River. It used the scare the dickens out of me when I was a child. (As a child if something was scared out of me, it was "the dickens". I had not yet moved to the land of New Jersey and discovered that there were a lot of other things that could be scared out of one too. In New Jersey, they were mostly one syllable things. Oddly enough, I found the same things to be two syllabled when I returned to Louisiana.) We used to go over this bridge when visiting relatives. When coming up to the bridge, it looks very much like it rises at a very steep angle and then plunges straight down on the other side. No matter how many times I went over it, that first approach had me worried. I'm going to try to get a good shot from that angle, but this is from underneath. It was taken on last Easter weekend. I'm trying to catch up on commenting. If I haven't been by recently, I will be. I have a system, :-) I'm just very slow at it. Thanks for viewing and for previous comments and favs!

Comments (42)

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vaggabondd

4:12AM | Fri, 23 April 2010

this is a great shot, love the pov

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0rest4wicked

9:03AM | Fri, 23 April 2010

Looks like a cool fishing spot from the summer sun!

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watapki66

3:00PM | Fri, 23 April 2010

Wonderfully done!

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jocko500

4:12PM | Fri, 23 April 2010

this is wonderful. I seen it a lot under the bridge and still find no trolls live there lol. anyway this is a wonderful shot. i never thougth of takeing a photo of it like this. but that how artists is. give them the same subject to 100 artists and all will take a diff photo of the subject

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Chipka

7:08PM | Fri, 23 April 2010

What a shot! OMG I absolutely love this and just as soon as I'm done commenting, I'm going to add this to my favorites! I love the geometry of the whole thing, and the way it dominates so much of the picture, but then there's the water just below. This is simply exquisite on so many levels, and I like the mood of it as well...there's a kind of industrial grayness to it, but that sort of grayness always seems so alive and functional, and the spot you show here has a wonderful note of vanishing perspective going on, as if this just goes on forever...who knows? Maybe it does. I also love the fact that in New Jersey, you learned that lots of things with only one syllable could be scared out of you...I laughed out loud when I read that.

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danapommet

10:14PM | Fri, 23 April 2010

Love the symmetry of this photo and the stillness of the river. Dana

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MagikUnicorn

12:22AM | Mon, 26 April 2010

Really scarry...Hope one day to see this view...in movie never know ;-) World News: 6.9 EARTHQUAKE IN TAIWAN 5 MIN AGO...

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e-brink

8:34PM | Tue, 04 May 2010

A wonderful viewpoint of this bridge... the business end, in effect. The sleeping giant that holds the fragility of human travel aloft.

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novelist

6:25AM | Wed, 05 May 2010

Great shot! I love how this emphasizes the lines and light. It would have made me nervous as a kid, too.

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anahata.c

1:32AM | Tue, 22 June 2010

I can understand your childhood experiences, and I can also understand how Jersey could have a lot of terrors too (lol). But this bridge is special. Your capture makes the water look almost like a floor of wood, that's covered with water. And the looming metal above it is sumptuous and scary at the same time. If you wanted to capture the 'fear factor' of this bridge, you did it: It's beautiful, but from underneath it's pretty scary, and the light to either side---being bright & diffuse---is quite commanding. A really fine shot, Lucinda; and even if you took it as an adult, you still got the childhood fear. Very impressive. And I'll look it up to see how it plunges in the distance. Now you've got me curious. (And what a journey from LA to NJ & NYC. You really saw many different sides of this country!)

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