I suppose it lots of people job security!

Very interesting shot, and that painting is because the salt spray that is always in the air. They do the same thiung in Vancouver BC on the Lions Gate Bridge, but they paint both sides at once and when they reach the end they start again. Reminds me of WWII when they kept Conscientious Objectors busy in the Canadian Army by digging holes and filling the last hole with the dirt from the previous hole. This actually happened!

You're right - I looked it up. The Golden Gate Bridge is painted continuously. Perhaps not over and over from end to end, but there is always painting going on somewhere on the bridge. Where they're painting is determined by maintenance priorities and yada-yada-yada. Thanks for sparking me to read about it! :)

wow wonder how much paint they used so far to paint this bridge?

I never noticed this before; I've seen a lot of painting work on that bridge, but never spotted these supports. Guess I was busy watching the views! Wonderful shot!

Its a place I like to revisit again. Nice shot. Aloha

a big grand chasm-y thing, with one of your characteristic choices of not bothering with the sky or anything else that would normally orient us to the rest of the world: You just show us a big swath of the underpinnings of a great bridge, and the rock it's stuck into. It makes it a big swooping thing with no apologies to anything or anyone else. That's part of the boldness I speak of in your work, your sense of not caring about those traditions, and just jumping in and going for the heart of the matter. Fine light and dark play too; and I like how you cropped it---the top lines of the bridge angle their way right into the top of the frame. Love the shot.