On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:56:37 -0800, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the years I've photographed this relic numerous times. Here's one > interpretation ... > > http://home.earthlink.net/~pdml-pics/forsaken.html > > Shel >
There's always something haunting about abandonned things, whether houses, factories, any vehicle, etc. Humans used that once upon a time to make a living. Fish were caught that ended up feeding hundreds or (over the years) maybe thousands. Many families were probably sustained for years by the incomes earned by those who worked that fishing boat. But now it sits abandonned, it's working life apparently over. I wonder why? Damaged and deemed no worth repairing? Perhaps no longer economically viable and now obsolete, surplanted by larger more efficient factory boats? Or (as has happened to the cod-stocks off Canada's East Coast) are there no longer any fish to catch? It sure looks sad just sitting there. You've captured it beautifully, Shel. I really like the shadow-play and the way it's just there, tilted, chained (as if someone's going to take it away from there). I really like it. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
