Cleveland Flats: Bridges

The Cleveland Flats is an overturned spaghetti bowl of bridges. And not just garden variety bridge-over-stuff bridges, but bridges that swing this way and that, ones that rise horizontally, and some that swing straight up in the air like enormous iron dinosaurs. And with that flight of fancy, on the to photos:

How cool, a bright red swing bridge, which obligingly swung both ways while we were shooting around it. Here it's sliding back into place - that yellow line on the road is the center line of the street:

Naturally, as soon as the warning horn sounded, about half the photographers in our group ran onto the bridge. Would've been some great shots if a freighter had come through, but it was a false alarm.

Here's the confusion of bridge work overhead:

Detroit-Superior from the ground - bits of it were laying on the ground, and note the cracks in the cross piece. I decided not to spend a lot of time under it, and not much time going over it, either:

The bronto-bridge:

It'd be fun to do a Flats bridge project - there'd be plenty to shoot.

Kelby Worldwide Photowalk: Cleveland Flats

Lisa and I joined a group of photographers for the Kelby Photowalk on Saturday morning in the Flats. We started at Shooter's parking lot, curled around the old powerhouse, down to the Left Back condos and the old lift bridge, the across the swing bridge and under the Detroit-Superior bridge, at which point we stopped for lunch and chimping at the Flat Iron Cafe. The weather started off cold and windy, but warmed up to a relatively balmy mid-60's. The sky was pretty blah, not a terrific background for the city skyline.

Despite the cold, there were a couple of groups of scullers on the river - all that rowing probably kept them nice and warm. There was one woman rowing in a sleeveless shirt - probably raised in Chardon, even native Clevelanders (usually) aren't that crazy.

Some skylines (picture beautiful blue skies and big puffy white clouds in place of the flat grey sky):

Above, from Shooter's deck.

The two views above are from the board walk by the Oxbow Association building.

This one's from the swing bridge, looking east.

 

Good time, I'd do it again - maybe with bluer skies, though.