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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tugboat Caroline, New Orleans
From: john.nebel at csdco.com (John Nebel)
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:52:32 -0600
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Chris,

Very nice documentary and a taut ship.  The equipment looks pretty cool.
Could even see in one photo that 65.7A @ 213V is required to power the 
Caroline
at the dock.

Interesting portraits of the captain.

Best,

John

Chris Williams wrote:
> So a bit different from my wedding work. I sometimes have commercial 
> jobs and Canal Barge was one of the first paying jobs when we moved to 
> New Orleans. Lately they have been refurbishing their tugboats, so when 
> they are finally done I take some images for their records. Now usually 
> I have to do this in less than an hour cause these are hard working 
> folks and they do not like to be sitting in dock, since that means they 
> are not making any money. There's people running all around the boat so 
> you kind of just have to shoot what you can, not much time to think 
> about it. Hey, wait that's kind of like shooting weddings and 
> photographing the Dalai Lama!
> 
> This boat is a bit different, there is a female captain in charge, 
> something not seen too often down here on the river. Usually when 
> photographing the crew, they are not one for photos, they would rather 
> just work and get done what is needed instead of stopping for photos. 
> Well Kat's crew is not like this, it took just a few images to get some 
> emotions out of this crew, and they seemed to have a good time with the 
> shoot.
> 
> I deliver all color images to Canal Barge, I toned the images here for 
> my own collection. Nikon and Leica images. Enjoy.
> 
> http://zoeicaimages.com/TugboatCaroline/
> 
> 
> Chris Williams
> www.zoeicaimages.net
> www.rebirthworkshops.com
> 504-231-6261
> 
> 
> 
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