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The 27th of December
was a Monday and around 11:30 I headed out to do a little post-Christmas
Shopping. It was pretty foggy as I left home, and driving along
Columbia I noticed an Amtrak passenger train trundling along the
track beside and below me. I zipped along to the Braid Street
crossing, where I parked, grabbed my camera, and got a few photos.
Here's a nice, moody one.
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After the train had
passed, I got back in the car and went to lunch and shopping.
Around four o'clock I was headed back home, and the fog was still
hanging around. I went down Front Street, which goes along the
Fraser River near my place. I was struck by the way the bridges
looked in the fog, so I pulled over. Luckily, there is this odd
little cutout where there is room to park about two cars on Front
Street almost under the Patullo Bridge. There are is no other
parking anywhere nearby, and Front Street is too busy to congest
by parking in a traffic lane (which I've been known to do on lonely
country roads). Anyhow, with my car safely stowed, I crossed the
road to get some foggy bridge photos. Here's the Patullo Bridge,
which carries automotive traffic. This is the bridge that I take
when I go to work at my Surrey office.
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| I walked
a short distance along the water to get this shot, which shows both
the Patullo and the CN/BNSF rail bridge. The rail bridge has a swinging
middle section. |
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| From the
same location, all three of the bridges. The rightmost one is the
cable-stayed Skytrain bridge, which carries the Skytrain (mass transit)
line. |
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| Here's a
shot showing just the Skytrain bridge. It's quite elegant with its
tall towers and thin ribbon of a deck. |
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| Sunset was
nearing, but not quite arrived yet. By reducing the exposure time
on the camera, though, I was able to get photos that approximated
sunset. |
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| In the next
photo, looking back the other way, you can see that it's still pretty
much day. As I was shooting, I became fascinated with the deep blue
color of the water and the colored reflections in it. I took a bunch
of photos to try to capture those colors. This one does it pretty
well. |
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| A train
came down the rail line behind me, and headed out across the bridge
to Surrey. |
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And here's a final
shot of the Patullo and rail bridges, again with emphasis on the
reflections. By this point (about half an hour after I had left
my car) the fog was thinning out.
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But the fog was part
of what had attracted me to the scene, so with this I packed it
in and headed home.
Not feeling very fowl
at all,
Tom
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