Day 269: Important Infrastructure

2026-11-02Hello! As I write this, a squirrel is running across the slanted shingles of a nearby roof.I captured a massive steel tower that is part of the even more massive Benjamin Franklin Bridge that connects Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Camden, New Jersey.I'll avoid repeating the trivia surrounding this bridge — that's what the Wikipedia article is for — but I want to just highlight that fifteen people died in the construction of this bridge. Spare me the gory details, but how did they die? What safety regulations have been put in place since then?To be clear, I'm not a bridge engineer. I had to look up the difference between nails, nuts, screws, bolts, and rivets for the alt text of this image. (They're rivets, if anyone wanted to know.)I took this image using a loaned camera and a telephoto lens that zooms far into the distance. The steel tower fills the frame, and after a tiny bit of cropping in post processing, it looks symmetric with lines of rivets running down the…

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