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Photo of the Day - May 2022

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Welcome to Photo of the Day. The POTD thread was started by iGary in May, 2006 and converted to a monthly thread in November 2007 by Arn. POTD is one of the most popular picture groups on MacRumors, often exceeding 500 posts and 20,000 views per month.

Photo of the Day is intended to be a showcase for your best pictures. There is no limit to your gear, just your imagination. P&S and film cameras are welcome along with DSLRs. There are no themes like the Weekly Contest, and no winners (or losers) either.

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Bixby Creek Bridge - Part I​

An Open-spandrel arch bridge in Monterey County, California.
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Location:
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Big Sur, Monterey County, California.

Completed in 1932 for just over $200,000, the concrete span, one of the highest bridges of its kind in the world, soars 260 feet above the bottom of a steep canyon carved by Bixby Creek.

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Special thanks 🙏🏻 to @julit0 @Whistler Mac 🫡
 
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When my wife and I first moved here to NC in 2/2001, we first lived in Apex, NC. I could see the cooling tower from our house of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. It intrigued me, as I had never seen a nuclear power plant before, let alone lived within 5 miles of one. Well my curiosity finally got the best of me, so my wife and I got in the car to go see if we could get a closer look at this cooling tower. We drove to the entrance and there were no keep out signs, so we drove down the long and winding road and kept getting closer and closer. I was so surprised that I kept stopping the car to take pictures to show our proximity to the cooling tower. We finally were there, and what an ominous feeling to be able to walk right up to the tower and nobody ask us what the @#$% we are doing. Well, I walked all over the grounds and right up to the tower. Never saw another person, let alone police or military. Of course that has all changed since 9/11. There is a guarded entrance now, and you can't get anywhere close to the tower any more.

The pictures were taken the Summer of 2001 just a couple months before 9/11 and are scanned, as they were taken when all my cameras were still film. I included a thumbnail of the pictures to show my progress as we got closer to the cooling tower, and to show they are my pictures.

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Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant · 5421 Shearon Harris Rd, New Hill, NC 27562

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bondr006 said:
When my wife and I first moved here to NC in 2/2001, we first lived in Apex, NC. I could see the cooling tower from our house of Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. It intrigued me, as I had never seen a nuclear power plant before, let alone lived within 5 miles of one. Well my curiosity finally got the best of me, so my wife and I got in the car to go see if we could get a closer look at this cooling tower. We drove to the entrance and there were no keep out signs, so we drove down the long and winding road and kept getting closer and closer. I was so surprised that I kept stopping the car to take pictures to show our proximity to the cooling tower. We finally were there, and what an ominous feeling to be able to walk right up to the tower and nobody ask us what the @#$% we are doing. Well, I walked all over and right up to the tower. Never saw another person, let alone police or military. Of course that has all changed since 9/11. There is a guarded entrance now, and you can't get anywhere close to the tower any more.

The pictures were taken the Summer of 2001 just a couple months before 9/11 and are scanned as they were taken when all my cameras were still film. I included a thumbnail of the pictures to show my progress as we got closer to the cooling tower, and to show they are my pictures.

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Cool story

Yeah, a lot has changed since 9/11 - like getting partially undressed before getting on an airplane - unless that was one's thing before 9/11.
 
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bondr006 said:
When my wife and I first moved here to NC in 2/2001, we first lived in Apex, NC. I could see the cooling tower from our house of Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. It intrigued me, as I had never seen a nuclear power plant before, let alone lived within 5 miles of one. Well my curiosity finally got the best of me, so my wife and I got in the car to go see if we could get a closer look at this cooling tower. We drove to the entrance and there were no keep out signs, so we drove down the long and winding road and kept getting closer and closer. I was so surprised that I kept stopping the car to take pictures to show our proximity to the cooling tower. We finally were there, and what an ominous feeling to be able to walk right up to the tower and nobody ask us what the @#$% we are doing. Well, I walked all over the grounds and right up to the tower. Never saw another person, let alone police or military. Of course that has all changed since 9/11. There is a guarded entrance now, and you can't get anywhere close to the tower any more.

The pictures were taken the Summer of 2001 just a couple months before 9/11 and are scanned, as they were taken when all my cameras were still film. I included a thumbnail of the pictures to show my progress as we got closer to the cooling tower, and to show they are my pictures.

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Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant · 5421 Shearon Harris Rd, New Hill, NC 27562

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Thanks for sharing.

I once got the opportunity of a guided visit inside a cooling tower of an old industrial site. Cooloing towers offer good opportunities for photos, especially on the wide end.

Here is one taken during that visit

 
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