Monochrome Madness #17 – Bridges

It has been a while since I have been your host for Monochrome Madness for a theme. It is a fun thing to do when you get to host and I’ve missed it.

I have picked BRIDGES. I love bridges, there is something magical about them. For me, they go in the same basket as lighthouses.

They lead to somewhere else. If there were no bridges then we wouldn’t be able to cross many things.

I think my love of them started when I was about 7 years old. We lived in a small country town and right beside our house was a channel and over that channel was a small wooden bridge. I loved that bridge. I would walk over and over it pushing my dolls pram. I would pretend there was a troll underneath it and I would have to work out how to get across.

I have seen that the bridge is no longer there sadly. However, that love of bridges has stayed with me.

I was recently going through a folder of images from 2017 of my trip to Tasmania and I found a few photos of the Spiky Bridge there that I had never processed, so I thought for my next theme I would do bridges and show those images. Here they are.

Spiky Bridge, Tasmania

We visited this strange bridge when I was in Tasmania in 2017. It is on the east coast and was built by convicts in 1843. Apparently, no cement or mortar was used in the construction, so it is surprising how well it has stood up to the test of time.

I have been searching the internet to try and find out why the spikes were added, or the rocks that look like spikes. From what I can find out no one knows. If anyone does know can you tell me why?

All the photos in this next gallery of the Spiky Bridge were taken with my old infrared camera. I like how it changes the scene to something else.

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Since this is a theme and that theme is bridges I had to show a lot more bridges.

Below is another gallery. Nearly of these bridges I have shown you before, except for the last one. That is an infrared image of the Batman Bridge in Tasmania.

The first bridge here doesn’t look like one, but it was a railway bridge, but when it became part of a dam the railway lines were removed and only the supports were left.

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I hope you will join me in our theme of bridges. Put links to this post so we can get the pingbacks.

Participating in Monochrome Madness

If you would like to participate in this challenge please post photos on your blog and use the tag Monochrome-Madness, then I can use the reader to see what you post.

You can also leave a pingback, do they still call them that? Basically, you put a link to my monochrome madness post in your post and it leaves a link in the comment section.

Don’t forget to check out the Monochrome Madness page. On this page, the next theme is announced and there is also all the information for participating. We have also included a list of themes that will be coming in the future so if you want to be able to plan ahead you can. They aren’t in order, but will happen. Please go and check it out. Click on the Monochrome Madness heading in the menu.

Also if you would like to host one week or more, let me know.