... over coffee yesterday robert, roger and i were talking about maine's disastrous april fool's day flood of 1987, and i remembered that during the crest of the event i walked out onto the two-penny bridge and took pictures of the kennebec river as it surged almost to the floorboards of the historic structure ... at this spot just above the ticonic falls, almost exactly where benedict arnold and his men completed the first of the many portages they would have to make on the march to quebec, the flood level was almost twenty-eight feet above the normal surface of the river ... standing in the center of the span and looking down was like leaning over the rail of a fast moving ship, and i can still hear the explosive sounds of iron rivets popping loose as the old bridge successfully resisted the river's destructive force ... these pictures were taken late in the evening just before it got too dark for photography, it's hard to believe that when it crested the next morning the river was even higher than you see here ...
NIKON F3-NIKKOR 24MM-F2.8-1/60th-EKTACHROME ISO400
NIKON F3-NIKKOR 105MM-F2.5-1/60th-EKTACHROME ISO400