Victoria Bridge Day

No, there isn't actually a Victoria Bridge Day, though there probably should be.  There have been a few facelifts over the years, but the stone piers that hold up the structure were built between 1854 and 1859. It is often the Jacques Cartier Bridge that gets featured here on The Old Blog, but the Victoria Bridge is my favourite of the Montreal bridges.  It is just unfortunate that I don't have as much access to it during the winter days when the sun sets much closer to it.  I still managed to get this shot of the sun sneaking out from under the deck of the bridge. At first, I thought that I had screwed up my ISO setting as the sunset looked real grainy.  It was only after looking a little closer that I figured out that all of the grain, was actually a bunch of insects trying to get their fill of sunlight before it went down for the night.  The photograph was taken at f/16, 1/125sec, ISO 100 at 24mm.  If you'd like to learn a little bit more about the Victoria Bridge, the National Film Board of Canada produced a nice little film about it back in 1987.  It is voiced by local radio celebrity Terry DiMonte, who is retiring from broadcasting this Friday.  Thanks for the great memories and great tunes Terry.  If you'd like to see the video, you can do so by following this link.  Hope you all have a great Victoria Bridge Day.