Gorge Bridge Black and White #1
by Britt Runyon
Title
Gorge Bridge Black and White #1
Artist
Britt Runyon
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
This image was captured in the early morning hours on a cold Winter morning with the low light from the rising sun coming over my right shoulder. The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge of New Mexico, the second highest bridge on the U.S. Highway System, is a three-span steel continuous-deck-truss structure with a concrete-filled steel-grid deck. It was called the "bridge to nowhere" while it was being built because the funding did not exist to continue the road on the other side. In 1966 the American Institute of Steel Construction awarded the bridge "Most Beautiful Steel Bridge" in the "Long Span" category.
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January 13th, 2016
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