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In Perspective, Fun: Mary Hume is a Wreck !!
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
So, Rick,
Tell us about the boat and how you approached the picture and the final presentation. I think it's going to be interesting!
Asher
Tell us about the boat and how you approached the picture and the final presentation. I think it's going to be interesting!
Asher
Hi Asher...
The story of this magnificant boat is much more interesting than how I took the picture.. The Mary Hume was built in 1880 in Gold Beach Oregon.. It 'was' the oldest working commercial vessel on the West Coast.. the Steam Engine was converted to Diesel in 1954 - she served as a Freighter; Whaling vessel and Tugboat before she was returned to Gold Beach in 1978...... then disaster. She was going to become a tourist enterprise and was given to the local historical society, and they took a half of a year to just rig a sling to move the boat to a permenant mooring.. The sling then broke, and the ship was dropped into only 4 feet of water and the hull buried itself in the mud - then came a huge storm..
The Mary Hume is in the National Registory of Historic Places, but no funds remain to keep it in any condition, so there she sits - decaying and abandoned, just off the yaught harbor at the mouth of the Rogue River...
I've seen many photographs of this poor survivor, but most "all" have been from the parking lot above it... I like to see things different, and will do almost anything to get it captured in a camera, so I got up at 5:00 AM and waited for the lowest tide available, and then waded out into the stinky, slimy, smelly "LowTide Mud" up past my ankles and almost sat in the crap to get this shot as the sun came up on her... All the other photographs I've seen have been at an angle of looking 'down' on her.. I thought she deserved to be looked 'up' to, and I was going to make that opportunity.. Then, back to the Motel to clean up and burn my clothes !! Strange alley cats followed me for the rest of the vacation - hoping for a treat from this 'walking fish factory'..
Do a Google search on the "Mary Hume", and you'll see literally hundreds of photographs as this one below - the 'norm'..... but I'll bet you can't find one from the angle of my original post.
This is your typical posed portrait of the ship you can see all over the net' ...
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Rick,
I suspected an interesting story, but the Mary Hume II is a classic tragedy of good intentions by an historical society. Sadly they had neither the money not the expertise to refloat the valuable boat!It would seem not that complicated. After all, it didn't break or get full of water, or did it?
This common picture does tell the tragedy and provides context for your more respectful shot. Magnificent sadness!
Asher