[Leica] Nathan's PAD 31/3/2021: the Great Belt Bridge

[Don Dory]

Lovely light to view masterful engineering.

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 1:26 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> I flew to Copenhagen on Wednesday afternoon, my first trip anywhere since
> November. I am spending 4 days in Denmark, the first 2 in Aarhus and the
> last 2 in Copenhagen. So on landing in Copenhagen, I picked up my rental
> car (the trains were more or less sold out due to Easter) and drove the 300
> km to Aarhus. Along the way, I passed the magnificent Great Belt Bridge,
> connecting the islands of Sjælland (where Copenhagen is located) with Funen
> (with Odense, the birthplace of H.C. Andersen, as the main town). Opened in
> 1998, it is an engineering marvel, consisting of a 1.6 km long suspension
> bridge to allow ships to pass, a tunnel for the trains, and a low bridge
> the rest of the way for both trains and cars. The total length of the
> connection is 18 km. I was approaching the bridge as the sun was was
> setting, so I left the motorway briefly and drove down to the old ferry
> harbour which is now just a recration area:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Xg6Trqj/A
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> To get a closer view of the bridge, I mounted the Leica 90mm Tele-Elmarit
> on my Fuji:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-DVCFGmP/A
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> Then I got back in my car and drove on to Aarhus.
>
> Later today, I will pass the same bridge on the way to Copenhagen, but the
> views are not nearly as nice from the other side.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
>
> Alicante, Spain
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