At harbour’s mouth (the Pool): 21st Feb 2020
The port of Great Yarmouth isn’t as busy as it was 100 years back, or even 50 years), unable to take the container ships and its fishing industry lost. Now its main business is the support and supply of North Sea Rigs. Sad facts echoed in this forlorn vista.
Point of View, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek
crispina kemp 
But oh what she must have been in her day. I really like this photo. Something about the rust really makes it feel powerful somehow..
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I took the same shot back in 1997, using old fashioned film. The day was heavy with clouds. The resulting photo looked more like monochrome, black and white. I loved that photo and I wanted to capture the scene again. For me, it’s the lines as well as the atmosphere. And that rust really does it. It weren’t there 20 year back!
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Well the rust would have been lost in the monochrome-like image, but I am betting the texture was to die for…..
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Yea, indeedy. That’s something monochrome does better than colour
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I llve taking close-ups of things… now trying to imagine a line wrapped around this!
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The lines I meant with the perspective lines of the harbour walls. They form a V to echo the V of the bollard. But that bollard, no much rusted, steals the eye.
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Oh yes… And I had a brain fart for the term bollard.
I love rusty things…
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Such a common word in this town. 🙂 I’m pleased with how the shot worked out 🙂
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As you should be!
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Indeedy. I’m pleased that so many folks have liked it, too 🙂
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I love the composition of this one. The lines are wonderful. I can just see the ghosts of days-gone-by when this would have been a bustling port. Nicely done!
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Thank you, Maria. One can only imagine…
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For some reason I can hear fog horns looking at the photo. Its a poignant photo somehow haunting.
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It haunts me. If you’ve read through the comments you’ll know the first time I’ve taken this shot.
But no fog horns, despite I’m standing 100 yards from the lighthouse. Since electronic sensing (satellite?) they don’t sound the horns, and the lights don’t shine. Sad, the end of an era. When I first moved to this town, I would lay awake, listening to that. Evocative. Gone.
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Awe. I’ve only heard them in Movies but somehow I remember the sound. Why do they have to take away the mysteries.
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It’s called progress, and modernisation, and the electronics age… till we run out of materials. Some of the vital ingredients are quite rare minerals.
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One day they’ll need a lighthouse. Then what?
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The lighthouse does still exist. But for how much longer… but then, they can always build another one. And the way our sea-trade is faring, there’ll likely be no need.
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You never know Crispina. Things can change.
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