Today’s Post by Joe Farace
“Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.” ―
The Seven Mile Bridge is a famous bridge that you’ll cross while driving through in the Florida Keys and is located in Monroe County. It connects Knight’s Key, part of the city of Marathon in the Middle Keys, to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. When it was built it was one of the longest bridges in existence and is part of the Overseas Highway in the Keys, which is part of the 2,369-mile U.S. Route 1.
There are really two bridges in this location. The modern bridge is open to vehicular traffic; the older one can only be used by pedestrians and cyclists. That bridge was originally known as the Knights Key-Pigeon Key-Moser Channel-Pacet Channel Bridge and was constructed between 1909 to 1912 under the direction of Henry Flagler and Clarence S. Coe as part of the Florida East Coast Railway’s Key West Extension, also known as the Overseas Railroad.
How I made this photo: The above image that I call “Palm after crossing the Seven Mile Bridge ” was made while Mary and I were driving a rented Lincoln on the way to Key West. It was shot using an Olympus Pen E-P3 (that I still love and use) and a M.ZUIKO Digital 17mm f/1.8 lens using the camera’s Dramatic Tone creative mode. (EXIF data doesn’t show the modes used but Olympus Workspace software does.) Exposure was 1/800 sec at f/9 and ISO 320. This little 12-megapixel camera was introduced in 2011 and I have always loved shooting it.
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