h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For create's February Challenge I'm showing you the insiders guide to what it's like to live in the Shadow of the Forth Bridges, and I'm taking a photo every morning on my way to work. Or later in the day if it's the weekend.

To keep up to day with this : keep checking :

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Forth Bridge, eh? Is that your way of saying this'll be like watching paint dry?

Probably..

Only joking. It'll be interesting to see how different the photos turn out, actually!

You've given me an idea, too.

But you'll be able to take some photos of your walks for the create challenge won't you? The theme is 'an insiders guide to..'

It doesn't have to be every day: A87739780

Ooh Simpost - you've had an idea already..

A lot calmer today:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/woolly_mammoth/6805955075/in/set-72157629134161575

Red Sky in the morning http://www.flickr.com/photos/woolly_mammoth/6812617055/

So that's the Forth Bridge then. Cool. It's amazing how different they look, isn't it? Day to day.

Are you just allowing yourself one shot, or are you taking a more considered approach?

Well I'm taking a snap from roughly the same place each day on the way to work. I may explore more options at the weekend. I don't know if you can see the scale of then properly. Once the third bridge is finished the suspension bridge will be just a footbridge.

Slightly different angle today.. and a bit later in the morning.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/woolly_mammoth/6818954201/in/photostream/lightbox/

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Three images today.

No bridge at all today - too foggy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/woolly_mammoth/6832382119/

It was a low lying mist. By the time I got to the station to buy my season ticket the tops of both bridges were in glorious sunshine.

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Fog was bad again today, I couldn't see the bridge until it was almost on top of me.
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Ha! I like the pictures of the bridge that aren't!

Oddly enough it's been glorious both days, the fog cleared about 1/2 an hour after my photo of the lack of bridge.

My river was hazy in the distance today. I don't think it was fog. I'm pretty sure it must have been pollution!

The things you notice when you look carefully at the same view over and over.

You find yourself a bit more attentive to what you see around you, when you're walking round with a camera looking for likely shots.

It definately makes me see things a different way, and I'm loving being challenged by your views of Belfast.

One of the things I wanted to convey was the scale of the bridges, they are massively bigger than the town that built them.