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Las fotos del puente fueron impresionantes.

Las fotos del puente fueron impresionantes.
The photos of the bridge were impressive.
From Lesson 130:Preterite of ser and ir (fui, fuiste, fue)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Las fotos del puente fueron impresionantes.

Wait, doesn't fueron mean "they went"? Why is it translated as "they were"?
The verbs ser (to be) and ir (to go) share the exact same forms in the Pretérito Indefinido past tense! Here, fueron comes from ser. You can tell them apart by the context: saying "the photos went impressive" doesn't make sense, so it must mean "the photos were impressive".
Why do we use fueron (from ser) instead of estuvieron (from estar) to describe the photos?
We use ser here because being "impressive" is treated as an essential, defining characteristic of those photos, not a temporary physical state or mood. When describing what an event or object was like in the past, ser is the right choice.
Why is it Las fotos and not Los fotos, since the word ends in an "-o"?
Foto is actually a shortened version of the word fotografía. Because the full word is feminine, the short version keeps the feminine gender. That is why it uses the feminine plural article las, even though it ends in an "-o".
Why does the sentence use del instead of de el puente?
In Spanish, whenever the preposition de (of/from) is immediately followed by the masculine singular article el (the), they must combine into the contraction del. So, de el puente becomes del puente.

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