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Photo Friday - 8OCT04 - FootBridge (Goldbar Park)

The 'extra' Photo Friday challenge lead me to a footbridge, near a park called 'Gold Bar'... The photos were taken September 26, 2004 at around 6:30am when the sun was just starting to come up... [This photo essay is dedicated to those that cannot see. Refer to the last image.]

"Hi mom!" Hearts of gold: A very friendly group of early morning runners. The last photo in the series shows why they were out running.

The bridge's boardwalk wet with rain and shining golden.

A golden sunrise.

New gold: An oil refinery.

Do not remove sign.

Old gold: Panning for gold. (It is a hobby for some. I understand the river is not all that productive.)

A bike underwater in the river.

We want it to last like gold.

Geese preparing to migrate south.

Grass with morning dew.

A close up of a nut and bolt on the bridge.

Just dew on a bright orange post blocking vehicles from coming on to the footbridge.

Someone scratched the bridge up with a knife. Maybe they were scratching their initials off the wood.

Old paint on a panel on the boardwalk.

Golden autumn leaves.

I would like to end with the reason the runners were out running so early in the morning: They were raising funds for the blind...

• Jon Lambert - Nice series Dale. It's nice to see people doing good things for a good cause. How did your gallery go? I'd like to have a galley within a years time. Wish me luck. Take care...
• Todd (no link) - The old adage goes something like "The devil is in the details." I think that God is in the details, and you are blessed with the ability to see beauty where others could not.
• Ming Lee - The textures were really beautiful. Great series!
• btezra - ~Dale, those shots of the bridge/boardwalk are xlnt!!!~
• daisies - Dale, this series was incredibly inspirational in more ways than one and I am forever grateful that I have the ability to see and witness the light that streams from your photographs. They are even better in print than here on the screen and I really enjoyed your muttart show :) Thank you for sharing yet another series of moving and beautiful imagery!
• Danielle aka ctegan - Beautiful photos! :)
• Junnie - wow great series! i want to be 2 x 4 from you! great place...
• IanSMcN - Dale ... excellent photo essay. Hangs together really well and the boardwalk and texture photos are superb.
• your_waitress - wowsa. great job dale. i love the bridge shots. ;-)
• Icyshard - Wow, this series of shots is amazing! They are all so good! The shots of the bridge are excellent, and the closeup detail shots are really interesting. Great, great job!
• Cody Williams - I like the dew shots a lot. Nice.
• Gregz - I really like Gold05.jpg.. The light reflexting off the wet boards...
• Lorien - Beautiful series! But which one YOU like best? :-)
• spunwithtears - My favorite is the nut&bolt photo. What you see is the frost melting off them. It was early in the morning and very cold. I took the macro shot lying prone on the cement walkway. I didnt have gloves and my hands were so cold I could hardly feel the camera. Less than an hour later the sun had warmed things up and it was a beautiful day.
• PurpleSatin (no link) - creative pictures. i like the grass picture and the wet bridge shining gold. and then the natural human grafiti on the bridge boardwalk.
• ihab saber (no link) - I would like to rcieve your newes letters ihab_saber2000@yahoo.com
• maysa (no link) - i feel sory 4 all u blind peepz out there PEACE!
• Bernie (no link) - aww its so sweet how people carve into wood who they love and the thing looks so nice .. much luv xxxx
• Annie - I think the first picture and the panning for gold picture are the best out of the set. You're a great photographer!

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