Walking around a port

New lens, Canon 50mm LTM F/1.8, Leica M9, f/8.0, 1/64, ISO 200, sharpening added to offset degradation of posted image.

The "sticks" in the photo are pilings and they are preserved by the brackish water. Pull them up and you cannot replace them. EPA regs. Back when 40 - 60# salmon swam upriver to spawn the pilings held fish processing plants. The racism was such that an automatic fish skinning machine was called "The Iron Chink." The KKK flourished here, too. We like to think we have progressed some. But back to the pilings, as long as they are there they can be built upon so no one pulls theirs up, hoping that there will be a commercial renaissance that builds again out onto the river.

The moored ships are in the Astoria Anchorage where the freighters await their spot at an upriver dock to take on cargo like grain or soybeans. The "Ro-Ro's, the car carriers, do not wait, ever. Time is money in a big way for those fellows.


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Harbour pier, Björlanda kile, Göteborg, Sweden. Mars 2020.
Canon EOS 30D, Canon EF 85mm/1.8 at 1/500 sec, f/8 and ISO 100.
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Shab, I just love the way you have things partially in the shot, the boats, a person, buildings. It gives the image a more mysterious mood.
 
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