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Seaport village has a series of telescopes that for 25 cents can be used to look across the bay to Coronado.
This is a handheld 3 exposure HDR tone mapped with Photomatix.
Loved the way the "warping board" was hung beside the window. This was on the wall of a small, antique weaving room at the Mystic Seaport!
"He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled."
~ William Ellery Channing ~
© 2008 Steve Kelley
one the way back from my photowalk across the brooklyn bridge walked around the South Street Seaport.
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Mystic seaport is a replica 19th century American seaside community. It features tall ships, and a variety of shops that practice the trades of the era. Although not a functioning navigation aid, the vilalge also features a replica of the Brant Point Lighthouse.
4th of July, 2019, South Street Seaport, New York, NY.
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South Street Seaport used to be a vibrant area in lower Manhattan, but then Hurricane Sandy pretty much destroyed the Seaport Pier and the large mall that was close by. It's eerily quiet there now.
There's lots of construction going though and it looks like this place is going to have a lot of potential as a place to visit. I'd love to see how it looks once the construction is finished.
For people not familiar with my documentary on the village of Doel (Belgium): it's a small 700-year old parish on the left bank of the river Scheldt and located near Antwerp. Although Doel is small, its skyline is well-known because it hosts a big nuclear power plant with two giant cooling towers.
Due to the expansion of Antwerp's seaport, Doel is destined to be overrun by newly planned docks and basins. In the early 1970s, the Port Authority ignored farmers' and villagers' protests and started to expropriate houses in several polder villages, hereby sacrificing local rural communities to industrial and economic interests.
As a result, the village began to decline. Successful actions by protest groups and local politicians in the late seventies, however, managed to temporarily put a halt to the Port Authority's expansion plans. But its survival was relatively short-lived. After many years of procedures and wrongful dealings, inhabitants received an official letter notifying them their houses should be evacuated by 1 September 2009.The already declining number of in habitants, dropped dramatically to approximately 75 people in 2010 (originally 900 people). The Flemish Government is, as of 2009, demolishing houses step by step.
The really tragic thing of it all is, that there's no immediate prospect for a new dock in the near future.
Although Doel is becoming a more and more eerie and mysterious place to be, it still can easily enchant and hypnotize you with a little help of mother nature. This is a view on Camermanstreet, at sunset. Most houses are empty, but still breath the feel of the past.
This HDR shot consists of three hand-held photos. For once I had my tripod with me, but left it in the car when I set off to walk around. Due to the fast dissipating sunlight, getting it from the car wasn't an option. Thanks to the 5DmrkII's technology and handling capabilities, it's possible to shoot a bracketing series in less than faction of second, really minimizing ghosting and blurring. Something that's really smart when so many overhead power lines are depicted in a shot. Of course a tripod would have resulted in an even sharper image, but I'm still quite happy with the result.
Charles W. Morgan is a whaling ship that was active for 80 years. She is the only surviving wooden whaler from 2,700 boats operated in the United States' whaling fleet. On her deck are huge try pots that render blubber into whale oil. She came to Mystic Seaport in 1941 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.