Since my day job is in engineering, I am drawn towards bridges when making images.
This Series started life with more bridge images than it has now, as I have decided to spread some of the others throughout my other image series as well.
Queensferry Crossing, opened in 2017, is the latest of three principal bridges crossing the Firth of Forth north and west of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Taken looking up one of the three towers on this cable stayed bridge during construction (the crane has been subsequently removed) the white cables that support the bridge deck fanning out below.
Taken from adjacent to the south tower of the new Queensferry Crossing, this image shows the new bridge’s older siblings. In the background is one of the most iconic engineering structures in the world, the Forth Bridge, carrying trains north of Edinburgh since its opening in 1890. In the foreground, and appearing to hover above the rail bridge is the 1964 Forth Road Bridge, which although pictured here with HGV traffic now carries public transport only following opening of the new Queensferry Crossing.
This bridge is included here as a deliberate contrast to the form and scale of the Forth Bridges above.
This is a scene that has changed radically due to the removal of many of the iconic (now diseased) trees that feature here, in common with many other lengths of the Canal du Midi in the Languedoc, southern France. This is one of my most treasured images, and not just because you can't see the scene like this anymore, but also because of the many hours I spent painstakingly removing intrusive telegraph wires, and their reflections, that originally spanned the foreground of the image.
