Back to Bill Russell and Leonard Zakim Bridges

We said we'd do this again when we didn't have to worry about losing digits to the cold. Here we go.
The Zakim has always been a group favorite. Now, the state has been nice enough to dress up the North Washington bridge, deck it out in colored lights, and give it a new name. The Bill Russell bridge is shiny and new and offers some fun photographic opportunities for night shooters. I think it would be ungrateful of us to reject the state's gift, so I'm calling on GBNP night owls to celebrate our new colorful bridge.

From our meeting point, 24mm on a full-frame camera will get you the entire bridge and the Zakim in the background. The featured image comes courtesy of my late lamented Pentax APSC 17-70. If you put the bridge on your left, the Charlestown Navy Yard will be straight ahead, with the Bunker Hill Monument poking its peak out of the buildings. If you turn around, the top of the new State Street building juts out against the sky.

It may have been frigid on New Years, but we got some good shots.

From our starting point, there's a big semicircular arc of a walkway that takes us under the bridge for interesting geometry of the underside. Or you can go up onto the bridge and shoot down the length with headlights coming or going or both.
It will probably cool off a bit, after a lovely afternoon, so plan your attire with that in mind.

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