Ropes and boats
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It has been awhile since I've posted a rope photo. Anyone following me knows I love photographing its texture, colour, and unique characteristics. I always feel like it has an interesting history and a story to tell.
This one was set up as a barrier on the side of a cliff that dropped straight into our frigid Atlantic. Bet it has seen some pretty spectacular waves, sunrises, and no doubt, chilly, chilly days!
When I took this photo back in 2008 I thought it would look good painted large. Version 1 with several layers of mixing of medias in photoshop. Too much fun!
It was a very dry year, the pastures were brown, a red ute travels the back country road. I suspect the possum proof band around the power pole is tell tail sign it's New Zealand.
Yellow ropes suspended from green metal bars at a newly installed playground, seen against a background of roof tiles decorated with lichen.
Just because I thought these ropes lying on a dock in the late afternoon sun looked kinda cool.
Pillar Point Harbor, just north of Half Moon Bay, California.
Onboard a modern sailing ship
Rigging is divided into two classes, standing, which supports the mast (and bowsprit), and running, which controls the orientation of the sails and their degree of reefing. Configurations differ for each type of rigging, between fore-and-aft rigged vessels and square-rigged vessels.
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Lots of ropes keeping this boat moored at the Marina, Porthmadog.
Porthmadog, known before 1974 in an anglicised Portmadoc form and locally as "Port", is a Welsh coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd and the historic county of Caernarfonshire.
On the beach.
Barmouth is a seaside town and community in the county of Gwynedd, northwestern Wales, lying on the estuary of the Afon Mawddach and Cardigan Bay. Located in the historic county of Merionethshire, the Welsh form of the name is derived from aber and the river's name, "Mawddach".