From the bridge

[Wicked Dark]

you get a new perspective on the venerable Merrimack River, driver of mills and hydro electric turbines. As little as 35 years ago a person would practically die from merely touching the water it was so polluted. Now though, after a massive clean up effort along its hundreds of miles, it is healthy enough to support a fishery. Here's the view upriver from the trestle -







Those little rocky islands have always fascinated me. And I love how the sun lit up the near trees, but the horizon was still in shade on that last shot. Anyway...all done w/the E-30 and the ZD 12-60mm with the polarizer on.

[Iguanasan]

These are very nice and I'm sorry we missed them. My favourite is the third of this set! Just lovely.

[Wicked Dark]

Thanks Igman. There are a lot of threads these days and I don't see them all either. I wonder how the watershed people found them...must be a google or RSS feed or something.

[Iguanasan]

Is this the only place you posted them? If so, they were probably found via a Google image search. This site is indexed by Google.

[Wicked Dark]

No, they're on my hosting sites too.

[Bambi]

nice shots WD. I also like the story of how the river was reclaimed.

[Wicked Dark]

thanks girl. It is pretty amazing how clean it is now. People boat and swim in it even. When I was a kid it was a joke. And I misspoke, the whole river is probably 100 miles. It starts in NH and ends on the north shore in Mass.

[JAS_Photo]

Cool stuff! I like the second one best, even with the wires and the bridge corner in it.

[Wicked Dark]

Thanks JAS. I normally try to exclude stuff like that, but I thought the bridge at least framed the trees on the island. And the wires...well, they're a bane, aren't they? I think there's a road over there that way, but I'm pretty sure it's not accessible by cars anymore. I really should go over and look. Maybe tomorrow.

[Mad Aussie]

Beautiful looking river with all that autumn.