Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 21, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Leonard Taupier wrote: > > Ric, many of your shots show boats in different stages of decay. > Are there special places where these boats are brought? Like a > junkyard. Or are many just abandoned and allowed to disappear > naturally? > My experience is that wooden boats just sink and die. Steel may make it to salvage yards. <http://tinyurl.com/ywmrwx> It may be related to what an old public health friend of mine called the "hookworm culture" of the South. > This is a wonderful photographic series you are presenting. Would > this be typical up and down the coast? Pretty typical in pockets. Many of the harbors have replaced fishing boats with sailboats and yachts as ever more people move to the coast. I think I'm presenting a pretty typical cross section of those pockets along the northern half of our coastline. I don;t get as much time to the south. I don't have much photographic interest in the fiberglass (frozen snot as an old friend called them) pleasure vessels, and so ignore those places. thanks ric