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Water transportation: boats, ships, barges, harbours, sluices, etc.

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Tom Robbins

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Wow, so many wonderful photos, so little time.

Bart, thanks for the tip about getting a sense of scale for the floating crane. The layered thin overcast sky works well with the subject and all the other elements within the frame. As I mentioned in another thread, the light in the Netherlands appears to have a unique quality and your photo captures it well.

Michael and Andrew's comments hit the nail with regards to your riverside bow photo, Cem. Following those curves with the eye is a delight.

This is barge tug Show Me State exiting a Mississippi River lock while heading downriver recently -

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Tom Robbins: Barge Tug Exiting Mississippi Lock
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StuartRae

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A few from somewhere in Seattle. There's so much water there that I've forgotten exactly where.

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Loading with grain.​

Regards,

Stuart
 
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StuartRae

New member
Lake Washington Ship Canal.

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A train crosses the swing bridge.

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A few minutes later it opens to let a boat through.


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Maintenance work to the sluice gates.​

Regards,

Stuart
 
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Tom Robbins

Member
Stuart, now that's a tour de force!

Michael, I like the peaceful backlit fishing boat, but oh that gorgeous monochrome is something else.
 
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Tom Robbins

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One aspect of rivers navigable by barge traffic in the Midwest of the US is their depth. The traffic requires a minimum of nine feet, and this depth is maintained by a series of dams and continuous dredging operations by the US Army Corp of Engineers. This results in very steep drop offs at the channel edges as well as a deceptive situation for visitors fishing or wading along the river's shore.

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River's Edge​

This is barge tug Landon York waiting its turn to pass through an Illinois River lock last October. The captain of the boat spotted me stumbling around with my tripod and gear and introduced himself. He also tossed me an ink pen with his email address so I could send him a photo of his vessel.

The boat's proximity to the river bank is an indication of the danger of the channel. Those little sticks in the water were used by fishermen as rod holders a day or two earlier.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Tom Robbins said:
One aspect of rivers navigable by barge traffic in the Midwest of the US is their depth. The traffic requires a minimum of nine feet, and this depth is maintained by a series of dams and continuous dredging operations by the US Army Corp of Engineers. This results in very steep drop offs at the channel edges as well as a deceptive situation for visitors fishing or wading along the river's shore.

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River's Edge​

This is barge tug Landon York waiting its turn to pass through an Illinois River lock last October. The captain of the boat spotted me stumbling around with my tripod and gear and introduced himself. He also tossed me an ink pen with his email address so I could send him a photo of his vessel.

The boat's proximity to the river bank is an indication of the danger of the channel. Those little sticks in the water were used by fishermen as rod holders a day or two earlier.
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Tom,

I love that rust color. Now is this steel that just rusts on the surface and then stops? Seems risky not to scrape and paint!

This is massive and one can only imagine how critical steering must be with these monsters. Now how are the locks financed? Presumably there's a fee according to boat class and size. But how do these work in places where one has to fill the dock oneself to go up stream. Is there some sort of trust system, at least in Europe where one can rent a large sleeping travel barge for a vacation glide across Europe. I'm told folk handle everything themselves!!


Asher
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Bosphorus Strait, Istanbul

Allow me to go back to my roots a bit.



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Bosphorus: Marmara Sea Entrance



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Bosphorus: Black Sea Entrance



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Bosphorus towards North with the Bosphorus Bridge at the background



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Golden Horn, Topkapi Palace and the Marmara Sea and the Princes' Islands on the horizon ​
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Cem_Usakligil said:
Allow me to go back to my roots a bit.
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Bosphorus: Black Sea Entrance


Cem,

This one is my favorite! You also bring me back to wonderful times in Turkey, an amazing and giant country that spans from European influences in the West to the more Muslim East. This picture reminds me of that great position with this fort in ruins at the entrance to the waters from which Tsarist russian ships entered the waterway.

I wish I had seen this but I was further south where we saw the palaces and seats of government.

Asher
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Hi Ben,
Ben Rubinstein said:
My favorite too! What was your connection with Turkey Cem?
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I was born and raised in Istanbul. I have lived there till my 26th. The all encompassing water and the endless ways to cross it from Asia to Europe and back have formed my character, among other aspects of such a big, cosmopolitan city.
 
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Tom Robbins

Member
Hi Cem, the Bosphorus series is magnificent, but agree with Asher and Ben's choice of Black Sea Entrance as the favorite. The ship, the rock, the emerald foliage... It is a jaw-dropper.
 
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Tom Robbins

Member
Interesting perspective on Lake Mead, Kathy. Would you be able to share details regarding the photo capture?

The vagaries of color rendition, here at OPF and elsewhere, quickly reminded me why I stopped posting photos at any online forums a few months ago. One way to avoid the issue is to post b&w only.

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Washington at Lock and Dam 13​

I've no idea what sort of bulk cargo was being transported this summer day at Mississippi River lock number 13, but suspect it was mineral or chemical in nature. The dark "brow" on the roof above the wheelhouse was formed by the corpses of thousands of seasonal mayflies drawn to the boat's nighttime navigation lights.
 
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Kathy Rappaport

pro member
Capture of the Boat Harbor on Lake Mead was during a helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon.
Canon 5D wit 70-200 2.8is

Asher - you can't see it bigger because I have had too many photographs stolen and appearing on websites for which a takedown notice is not effective.
 
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Ben Rubinstein

pro member
Asher Kelman said:
How can you ever be apologetic for such an image. I wish it was bigger. So what 645 did you use?

Asher
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I shot for some years with a Mamiya 645 Super with 45/80/210mm lenses, mainly on Velvia.

Kathy, have people been stealing your stuff that much? There is an app called 'who stole my pictures' which I have on firefox, very useful apart from the fact that no one ever has stolen my stuff, perhaps it's too specialised.
 
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Tom Robbins

Member
I like Going Forward very much Michael. The wake of the boat and the play of the breeze on the surface of the water work well together.

Ruben, including the construction equipment in the Panama Canal Expansion photo brings a very strong sense of scale to both the canal and the container vessel. It appears that the ship is moved by tugboat in this case rather than by its own power. Maybe it is only my eyes, but the two tuna fishing boats seem to conjoined at their sterns. The result is a sort of playful puzzle; very cool.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Wow!



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Ruben Alfu : Tuna fishing boats​

Ruben,

Where was this found?

I expect beauty from a flower, a tree a cloud and a couple in love, but hardly ever from a set of commercial boats! Here you have beauty, clutter and lyricism together. I love this work. I think that the thin and gentle curvaceous feature of the sails makes the picture so graceful.

Bravo!

Asher
 
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Ruben Alfu

New member
Asher Kelman said:
Ruben,

Where was this found?

I expect beauty from a flower, a tree a cloud and a couple in love, but hardly ever from a set of commercial boats! Here you have beauty, clutter and lyricism together. I love this work. I think that the thin and gentle curvaceous feature of the sails makes the picture so graceful.

Bravo!

Asher
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Thanks very much for your kind words Asher! These boats were off the bay of Panama city, close to an island called Taboga, it is very common to find all sort of boats and ships anchoring in this area.

Regards,

Ruben
 
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