{"id":3855,"date":"2022-09-10T00:32:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T00:09:52","slug":"on-the-franklin-avenue-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/10\/on-the-franklin-avenue-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Franklin Avenue Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A unique view of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From the Franklin Avenue bridge, you see Minneapolis off in the distance, and the Mississippi River down below. In between, Interstate 94 crosses the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went out on the bridge before sunset and waited to see what things looked like as it got dark. Just as I got there, a “stern wheeler” excursion boat passed under the bridge, heading out of downtown on its way over to Saint Paul. <\/p>\n\n\n

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I tried a few different shots, but the light wasn’t right; so I left, to check out another photo idea not far away. That one totally bombed out, due to lack of parking opportunities in the vicinity. So it goes, sometimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went back to the Franklin bridge. Now the sun was setting, the light was getting interesting. And after a couple of shots, I got lucky – the paddleboat came back, heading upriver into the city at the end of its evening cruise. It passed through my frame, just where I wanted it. The light was right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s one of my favorite images of this city. The evening skyline says “downtown”; it has energy. On the dark water below, the paddleboat is a link to a colorful past. Nighttime traffic flashes by on the Interstate. It’s a city on a river, with transportation old and new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A unique view of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[653],"tags":[718,5,8,337,7,450,719,334],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myphotography","tag-boat","tag-minneapolis","tag-mississippi","tag-night","tag-photograph","tag-river","tag-riverboat","tag-skyline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}