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Wrecked
Camera // Shen Hao HZX45 11A
Lens // 150mm Sinar Sinaron S
Film // Ilford Delta 100
Developer // Kodak HC-110 (B)
Scan // Epson V850
Along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria are a number of old wrecks, evidence of the treacherous waters on the south coast of Australia. This is from the Marie Gabrielle, wrecked in 1869.
One of the lesser visited locations is Wreck Beach which has a gorgeous anchor embedded into the sand and rocks that makes for a nice shot as the tide recedes.
It wasn't yet five in the morning. The light had barely started, the fog had not yet lifted, children are still sleeping in their beds.
Traffic suddenly stopped. Stopped cold, no movement at all, suddenly. Not good. It was never good when this happened.
A quick check of the map on the phone reveals that no traffic is showing up yet. This confirms it was an accident. Still no movement. Get off right now, at this exit. Head south, turn east at the first major road. Check the map again at the first stop light. Traffic is now showing up. You can see where it starts, where the accident is. You can see which road that you can turn on to get back on the highway after the wreck.
Back on the highway - the lone car now, free of the incident. Four lanes of road with only one car to fill the space. Radio goes off. No talking, no music, ride in silence for a while. Silence and reflection for what happened back there.
It wasn't a wreck really, or an accident. You don't need to see it to know that is was an obliteration. At these speeds it only takes a moment, a simple misstep, for everything to change. Vehicles are not just dented or smashed, they are reduced to small pieces of debris that are gathered with a push broom. We will see the reminders of what happened tomorrow and the next day and the next until the first rain will wash it all away.
This will ripple through the day, forever changing the lives of a growing number of people, friends and family of those involved. There is still hope, but it is faint and dissipating as the fog of the day. And the children still sleep in their beds.
5 minute exposures at the Tangalooma Wrecks on Moreton Island, Queensland. The 10 stop Nisi Filter is amazing!
As requested by jude depp.
The build should actually be longer, in order to represent the wreck more accurately. However, I was running low on parts and wanted to finish the build so I cut it a bit short.
On the back: wreck between the Vestaburg (?) and Riverdale Feb 1 1910
I just love the punched holes. A rppc.
Who never had their heart broken and still love the person who did it?
The hard part is putting everything back together…
Macro Monday project – 06/06/11
"Broken/old but still loved"
A wreck positioned at low tide mark on Tramore Beach in Waterford. Not always visible with the shifting sands. Would love to have had more time to consider the composition a bit more but the tide was on the way in , fast! If interested in more of my photography you can see more over at www.kieranrussellphotography.com
The old wreck of a ship that lies hidden on Bran Sands at South Gare near Paddys Hole, seen only when the tide is out. In the good company of My Bro Jimbri378, he waded into the sea and managed to get a shot from the other side of the wreck with the steelworks in the background Check It Out. Tide comes in really fast, the wreck was covered in little under 10 minutes. Processed this in Smart Photo Editor and finished in Photoshop. Removed a building and headland from the horizon.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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An artistic expression of a stockpile of colourful wrecked vehicles, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. BC;.
Wyola Wreck
CY O'Connor Beach
North Coogee
Western Australia
The Wyola was a tug boat built for the Swan River Shipping Company of Western Australia in 1912. The Wyola was one of the most powerful tugs of her time and so along with her normal duties, was called upon to rescued many ships. In 1970 the Wyola was dismantled at Robbs Jetty and buried in the sand on the beach.
Smoke from a department burn off added a nice touch to the sunset
The wreck of the Aberdeen on the river Medway, my go to location when I'm looking to kick start my photo mojo (again). The plan was to shoot it surrounded by water, but I got there late due to spending 45 minutes chatting to a neighbour and the water had disappeared, leaving just the glorious Medway Mud!