Taken for Granted

I was wandering around. Temperature was dropping and the sun had escaped the sky-scape just a while ago. I found this pier in Lillesand where a cargo ship were being unloaded. We take a lot for granted. Behind every product, every item or maybe an event there are so many things happening we wouldn't be able to fully grasp how many people have that particular thing possible. I wouldn't even know what was unloaded from this ship but people are working nights to get the cargo underway to an another and bigger project. Maybe it's to a building project or maybe it's to a food processing plant? I couldn't tell. These people, delivering things to us which we take for granted are the silent heroes nobody would even mention. I think we owe them, because the lower you get down in the processing chain, the smaller they pay is. So they get almost no credit for the job done and payment can be far from great (depends of course). With low end product prices, a costly manufacturing and a short product lifetime many industries cannot survive in many western countries. In Norway the manufacturing sector has shrunk radically, thus rendering our silent heroes without jobs. They would deserve a day, a celebration. "The day of the working men and women who make the things we take for granted".

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Camera: Kiev 88

Lens: Mir-26V

Film: Kodak Ektar 100iso

Shutter: 1 minute

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