BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Frederick -- Public Art: Community Bridge ("Mural Bridge") @ Carroll Creek Park

MD -- Frederick -- Public Art: Community Bridge ("Mural Bridge") @ Carroll Creek Park:

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1. BRIDGE_030628_005.JPG: This shot is from the art school which did the mural. The view from their window shows the piece Archangel from one of the two vantage points where it seems to be in normal proportions.
2. BRIDGE_030628_014.JPG: The art school had a display going on. This was my favorite! "View from the Gallows" by John Hay.
3. BRIDGE_030628_023.JPG: Mural Bridge in Frederick. (There are lots of other pictures of this on that page.)
4. BRIDGE_030628_026.JPG: The mural bridge was put up in 1993 and now, ten years later, it's starting to show some signs of natural decay. This part is caused by leaking water from the bridge above.
5. BRIDGE_030628_042.JPG: Interestingly, these same geese were also presented as part of the farm scene in the previous picture.
6. BRIDGE_030628_069.JPG: That's the art school in the background
7. BRIDGE_030628_103.JPG: There were three pieces that had been vandalized with graffiti when I was there. The baby suckling, the Lincoln head penny, and the sun profile all had been visited by a magic marker "artist" (who, judging by the Lincoln penny addition, looks like he was 12 years old or so).
8. BRIDGE_030628_119.JPG: I don't know why but I seem to have a tradition of taking my shoes off and putting them outside the painted gate.
9. BRIDGE_030628_122.JPG: These two were photographing this doll in a boat on the canal for some art class. They had a fishing line tied in front in case the boat blew across to the other side.
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Description of Subject Matter: The Community Bridge in Frederick, Maryland was the idea of William Cochran. In 1993, he proposed taking a plain concrete bridge, called the Carroll Street Bridge, and turning it into a work of art. He surveyed the city to find out what sort of symbols they'd like to see. He took their ideas and incorporated them as "carvings" painted into the bridge. It's a technique called "trompe l'oeil" ("deceive the eye"). It's a really neat effect since it's art pretending it's stone work. Of course they have their own Web site at http://bridge.skyline.net which not only describes all of the images but even tells you who suggested them.
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2003 photos: Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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