Casual Discussion Photography

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This thread is meant to post up photos taken by members.

 

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The Hudson River valley viewed from Bear Mountain

 

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Near apex of a hike I took with some friends...around late October around Ottawa Area (on Quebec side).

In background is the Ottawa river. This is roughly about a 350 metre height.

We saw a mustang in the area too:

 

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Jersey City skyline across the Hudson River:

 

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Hemi-ing on Highway One:

 

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Hemi-ing on Highway One:

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You have a challenger? This a pic you took?

Damn.....

 

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You have a challenger? This a pic you took?

Damn.....

LOL. This Challenger was a rental I used in my trip to California. Yes, I took that photo.

 

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The famed mists of Golden Gate:

 

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Something for the engineers here to ponder upon.

 

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San Francisco:

 

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Something for the engineers here to ponder upon.

Pretty standard retrofitted stiffening to prevent buckling (vibration modes use the same eigenspace as buckling).

Probably to be extra sure it wont happen to golden gate after what happened to bay bridge in 1989 earthquake ( a section failed).

 

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Pretty standard retrofitted stiffening to prevent buckling (vibration modes use the same eigenspace as buckling).

Probably to be extra sure it wont happen to golden gate after what happened to bay bridge in 1989 earthquake ( a section failed).

After the buckling shown above, they put in these massive absorbers plus a lot of other improvements:

 

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Alcatraz Island:

 

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The Bay Bridge:

 

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Ghirardelli Square:

 

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San Francisco harbor:

 

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Near Fishermans Wharf:

 

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