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Subject: [OM] Night TOPE alternates
From: usher99@xxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:54:50 -0500
Included is one more shot from our hike along the Niagara River--Goat 
Island Bridge and an expanse of the Niagara River--OM-2.

Marnie and I had scoped out a few vantage points in Cambridge the week 
before to try and get an interesting shot of the Zakim Bridge. We met a 
dusk after work and used the Z. 50-250, OM-2 and had to shoot through a 
chain link fence. We inadvertently blocked the progress of a "Duck 
Boat" while the shutter was open. I was oblivious to it at first, but 
the tourists were just amused.

The bridge is the first in the US to us ungrouted stays for its stay 
cables. The engineers were worried in a rain storm it could vibrate and 
fail until they came up with a spiral bead as sheathing on the high 
density polyethylene used for the stays. One can see the spirals on the 
cabling as you traverse the bridge. They later had Barnum and Bailey 
traipse 14 elephants over the bridge to prove its structural integrity.

Marnie had the awareness to turn around and grab a shot the other way 
with the G-9, while I was focused like a laser on the bridge.
Mike



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