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Vantage Bridge construction, Columbia River, Vantage Washington (photograph by my father, 1961)

I look at construction photographs shot by my Father and Grandfather and see the roots of my own style of documentation photography. I am drawn to photographs where art takes a backseat to the facts. This photograph was shot with a Voigtlander camera, loaded with 35mm Kodak slide film. The completion of Wanapun Dam necessitated the building of this new higher bridge.

The weekend, Vantage Bridge (I-90) construction days, me always pointing at imaginary bears, Teanaway river, Washington State (dad's camera, self-timer)

More construction photos can be found here www.flickr.com/photos/tellytomtelly/albums/72157627980108...

I-90WB Montana Trip 2023 Album #13 (OTR)

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I-90 Vantage Bridge Construction, pulling sheet piles from around constructed bridge piers, Washington State (photograph by my father)

The Vantage Bridge is a bridge in the U.S. state of Washington. It carries Interstate 90 across the Columbia River, near Vantage and George, Washington. This section of the river is named Wanapum Lake; it is the reservoir formed by Wanapum Dam. The bridge separates the Ginkgo Petrified Forest and Wanapum Recreational Area State Park on the western bank of the Columbia.

The current bridge is the second Vantage Bridge. The first was built in 1927 as part of the Sunset Highway (later US 10), a precursor to I-90. In 1962 the second bridge was built because the reservoir pool backing up behind the new Wanapum Dam would soon overwhelm the old bridge; it was dedicated by the state on November 9, 1962.[2] The first bridge was dismantled. In 1968 its steel cantilever truss was reused for the Lyons Ferry Bridge, where SR 261 crosses the Snake River.

I have passed over the Columbia River on the Vantage Bridge so many times, it's almost a mystery why I ever bother to take photos of it anymore—except to say that this trip I got shots of it from what were, for me at least, unusual angles: looking northwest (as in the above shot), and looking northeast, due to separate destinations. In the above example, we turned right, after crossing the bridge, instead of left to continue on I-90, briefly going the direction I used to go when returning to college in Pullman.

I have passed over the Columbia River on the Vantage Bridge so many times, it's almost a mystery why I ever bother to take photos of it anymore—except to say that this trip I got shots of it from what were, for me at least, unusual angles: looking northwest (as in the above shot), and looking northeast, due to separate destinations. In the above example, we turned right, after crossing the bridge, instead of left to continue on I-90, briefly going the direction I used to go when returning to college in Pullman.

Vantage Bridge, view from southwest of it, a very unusual angle for us.

Viewed from Wild Horses Monument Lookout