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Wonderful photos. Want to offer my encouragement and say, keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteI worked construction many years- mostly residential carpentry, but did work on form work for one medium-size bridge (1979. U.S. 24/40 over Kansas River)
People who don't do this kind of work have little real idea what is involved for the workers. So these photos are very valuable for showing the fascinating details of the things construction workers build.
We tend to take our roads and bridges and other infrastructure for granted, as if they sprung up like trees instead of being painstaking put together by men.
Your photos show a bridge and its builders and I suspect that in a year no one would remember that actual people got out in the weather and worked very hard to construct it. Your photos might even be the only record.
Similarly, in the case of homes and buildings, for example, the actual builders are not remembered, only the developers and architects. They sign their name to work done by all the skilled and strong workers who made the developer's dream, and the architect's paper drawings, into solid reality.
Then the real builders are usually forgotten, or as some old poet wrote, they are "unwept, unhonored, and unsung".
So I hope you continue with more photography of this type.
Today we have photos of the building of the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, and other great construction projects, thanks to photographers who understood there was something highly extraordinary in progress and felt it had a beauty as well as significance for the historical record.
But the great bridges and buildings are usually much like the small projects, only bigger, and there is just as much aesthetic and historical value in photographing smaller kinds of jobs, or typical types of jobs.
In some ways the small ones are better to photograph- for ease of access and intimate photographs and other advantages that wouldn't be so easily found on a Trump Tower or extremely large dam or bridge project.
Sadly, too many projects never were photographed as much as we would wish today. of great construction projects in past decades, but hopefully the ubiquity of cameras now, and generally widened interest in photography, will ensure that more and more photographs with this kind of theme will be done in the future.
Gib Sosman
Ha ha, it's funny when one of the concrete workers showed his phone to the camera. It's good to have an icebreaker sometimes at the workplace. It can boost the energy and relationship between everybody. Good job on the photos, btw. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteMegan Payne