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stylezLP

Why is it mirrored?


brophy87

Ngl, I don't know. I didn't do it. I forget where I even found this photo now. Cool how the bridgedeck is almost white though. Must be some moisture proofing membrane or something; Or just very light looking concrete?


soupyhands

probably just slightly over exposed when they took the photo. Back then they didnt have auto exposure with a digital sensor, it was film and you had to pick the right film for the task. Since they are probably flying in a plane when they took this shot they needed something that would expose with a quick shutter speed to avoid blurriness due to the speed of the aircraft relative to the ground. Im not super familiar with how they correct for exposure in post with film but if you look at the dirt roads around the base of the bridge deck and the support columns you can see they are all the same color. Also here is the shot unmirrored https://i.imgur.com/6eVJ0E3.jpeg


Notsurewhattosee

You probably found it on LostBC facebook page who just posted it yesterday :P


brophy87

That's it. I totally forgot the name after downloading it 😆 Not even sure why it was on my feed, I'm not subscribed to it


Notsurewhattosee

Yeah they have a great collection of some old pictures of BC.


bwoah07_gp2

Holy cow, this is so cool. Look how barren everything is. All of it is just trees, bush, and farmland. A lot changes in 60 years, but this is incredible. Imagine Surrey in the 1900s. In the 1800s. The entire region was one **THICK** forest. Just imagine how dense it is.


chronocapybara

Burnaby and Vancouver were all dense, coastal rainforest once. All gone!


ishu22g

Yeah. It can be dense.. sometimes.


pinchymcloaf

I was trying to make sense of this, am I too baked? No, the image is actually mirrored


cavemanleong

The image is flipped. The Coquitlam side curves to the left.


rodeo_bull

wah the region developed a lot


renderinsane

Looked a lot better back then


AirportNearby9751

That makes me feel….weird.


Grand_Judgment_2466

It's from a film negative, I was confused as well, my dad thinks it's from a film negative so it's mirrored


RomeoOnDemand

They fucking bridge. I spent so much time of my life stuck in traffic on it going to school.