LostOldUserName
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Ok I am pretty sure I understand what you are thinking but to make sure can you dumb this down a little [emoji16]It's obvious from the shadows that the picture was taken around 2:07pm. From Google Maps the bridge runs at an azimuth of about 123 degrees (you could use a protractor). So the cross ties run at about 90 degrees plus that, or 213 degrees. Using simple trigonometry and a guess of where her back was relative to her feet, her shadow on the trestle bed seems to make an angle of about ten degrees with the cross ties, which would mean an azimuth of the sun of 213 degrees - 10 degrees = 203 degrees. Using an online astronomical program from the US Naval Observatory, that would be at 2:19 pm. At 2:07 pm the azimuth of the sun would actually have been a little less than 200 degrees, well within the uncertainty of my observations (presumably the angle of the shadow is more like 13 degrees).
At about 1:01 pm, the sun would be due south, and so before 1pm the shadow would make an angle of more than 33 degrees with the cross ties, which seems quite implausible from the photo.
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