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Cellpic Sunday – The Rio-Niterói Bridge

The Rio-Niterói Bridge is Brazil’s longest waterway span.

Officially known as the President Costa e Silva Bridge, the second-longest bridge in Latin America connects the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói and spans Guanabara Bay. When construction was completed in 1974, and until 1985, it was the world’s second-longest bridge, second only to the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the United States.

The box girder design carries eight lanes of traffic on BR-101 and is 8.26 miles (13.29 km) long. At its highest point, its 236-foot (76 m) height allows most ships to pass through the bay.

About the photo: I captured the image on my Samsung S23U in two images from a deck on the Norwegian Star. I set the camera to its widest angle format and created a left and right image that I joined together in Adobe Lightroom. We weren’t that close to the bridge as we cruised away from Rio, but if we were closer, it would have been even harder to capture the entire length of the bridge. Click on the image above to pixel-peep in 2K HD via my Flickr site.

I encourage fellow bloggers to create their own Cellpic Sunday posts. I never have a specific topic for this feature, and the only rules are that the photo must be captured with a cell phone, iPad, or another mobile device… If you have an image from a drone or even a dashcam, that’s acceptable as well. The second rule is to link your challenge response to this post or leave a comment here with a link to your post in the comment. Oh, and, you don’t have to post it on a Sunday.

John Steiner

33 comments

    • It is really too hard to see in the panorama, but any closer and I couldn’t have captured the whole thing. I’d have loved to do a drone video flying over the top, but not being in the United States, I’d likely have been arrested and the drone confiscated. Of course, the cruise line wouldn’t have let me bring a drone on board anyway. >grin<

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  19. Taking photos of the Rio-Niterói Bridge is a real challenge because of its length, even from the heights of Sugarloaf or Christ the Redeemer. The best spot was finally from one of the ferries that pass underneath and criss-cross the bay in all directions.

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