I don't have any pictures of people laboring, so instead here's a picture of the new Gerald Desmond bridge in Long Beach harbor. It's at least a product of labor.
I've shown you the bridge before, but this picture is the result of an exhaustive search for the best possible view I could get. My conclusion is that there isn't one. This particular angle was better than any other I could find, but the weather was bad on the day of my search so I went back the next week to actually take the picture. By then, however, a whole pile of electrical lines had been put up. What's more, this view is from a vacant lot that turned out to be private property, so I got chased off.
Eventually they'll dynamite the old bridge and it will then be possible to get a good view from the other side. However, that's still a couple of years away.
The best shots of the bridge will be taken with drone cameras. Time for a new (or rather, expanded) hobby?
I am voting in favor of this.
Seconded.
While not enacted yet California, like many states is looking at new laws regarding drone use.
Given that a bridge is a tempting target for terrorists I suspect either the city, county or state would have laws restricting drone use near a public highway.
Its already a crime in CA to shoot down a drone with any device near a highway.
I hope that bridge is 5 miles or more away from an airport.......
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Pain - government agencies can and do use drones with great success.
True story - we have shot spotter here in Wilmington NC. It only goes to city limits, no further.
A nearby beach town has a 7 story beach front hotel and people get "frisky" and young people living nearby with drones get mischievous - so - a couple gets carried away perhaps on a balcony or in the room with wide open shades and a drone is flying outside...........
Yeah several drones were shot down by irate tourists, with guns. Drone flying is causing all sorts of problems for local law enforcement. Great tools, but cheap enough to be used by the public for all sorts of reasons !!! Real estate agents caught on real quick but they got caught flying over neighborhoods. Now the law says show ONLY the property for sale, which is difficult.
Another thing that has changed for us old guys.........
Thanks for the incentive to look up "cable-stayed bridge" and learn a little! Very nice photo, by the way.
Of which we will likely need a great many more as we look to electrify our economy.
It might have been worth it to hire a videographer to come with you to document your quest for the best vantage point and conditions. It could still be done as a dramatization, I suppose.
NRG. That's a natural gas power generation plant you have in the foreground.