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We docked outside and swam into the cave. Each one of us held the life vest of the person in front of us. Most of the guys/girls there were pretty terrible swimmers (this is coming from a terrible swimmer- they were much worse). My cousin and I were struggling to get through with everyone holding our life vests. When we were swimming back from the beach we left the rest of the group and ended up getting to the boat a lot earlier than everyone else (which is why I could take this picture). I don't have any pictures of the island from my camera because it was too big to put in the water-safe bag while we swam across. Also, there was apparently a town on that island which we couldn't go to because everyone swam too slow and we didn't want to risk swimming back when the tide was too high.
This impressive building was built between 1897 and 1900 at a cost of £59,000, designed to control the export of the huge amounts of coal through the docks. The design follows works of Christopher Wren. The building was badly damaged by fire in 1984, but was restored by Associated British Ports. It now houses some departments of the Vale of Glamorgan Council.
Took my daughter to Felixstowe docks last night to catch the sunset, a place where I used to play on the old war time defences as a child. We were treated with an amazing sunset.
By Phyllida Barlow
Tate Britain Commission 2014
Inspired by Tate Britain's location in relation to the river Thames, dock is Barlow's most ambitious sculptural installation to date. Obtrusive and invasive, the works in dock block and impede the way, overfilling the 100 metre long barrel-vaulted Duveen Galleries. They project dual and contradictory identities: monumental on the one hand, collapsed on the other. Made of lightweigh materials such as timber, metal, polystyrene, tarpaulin, canvas, cardboard and rope, the works in dock look battered or ravaged and offer an antagonistic counterpart to the austere neoclassical galleries. Suspended , collapsed, stacked, wrapped, folded or jammed, the sculptures have taken over and create a dynamic space that challenges the experience of viewing.
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow will unveil her largest and most ambitious work in London to date for the Tate Britain Commission 2014, supported by Sotheby’s, on 31 March 2014. The annual commission invites artists to make work in response to Tate’s collection of British and international art and to the grand spaces of the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
For over four decades Phyllida Barlow has made imposing, large scale sculptural installations using inexpensive, everyday materials such as cardboard, fabric, timber, polystyrene, plaster, scrim and cement. Her distinctive work is focused on her experimentation with these materials, to create bold and colourful three-dimensional collages.
Drawing on memories of familiar objects from her surroundings, Barlow’s tactile and seemingly unstable sculptures often contrast with the permanence and traditions of monumental sculpture. In works such as Peninsula at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in 2004 or Stint at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre in 2008, a cacophony of form, colour and materials filled the spaces. In Barlow’s most recent work TIP for the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, timber lengths wrapped in mesh, cement and brightly coloured fabric ribbons cascaded en masse across the museum plaza to the entrance.
Phyllida Barlow has had an important influence on younger generations of artists through her work and long teaching career in London art schools. At the Slade School of Fine Art, her students included Turner Prize-winning and nominated artists Rachel Whiteread and Angela de la Cruz.
Having seen the space evolve over several decades, I’m very excited by the opportunity to work in the Duveen Galleries. Considering a body of new work, I was very conscious of two particular contradictory aspects: the tomb-like interior galleries against the ever-present aspect of the river beyond.
Phyllida Barlow
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just a teeny part of the dock in focus LOL
sorry for the double upload considering I am on break
Just have time this weekend but it will be short lived !!
:~)
Hope everyone has a great Sunday and Monday !!
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albert dock, LIVERPOOL...
home of the beatles...Today the Albert Dock is a major tourist attraction in the city and the most visited multi-use attraction in the United Kingdom, outside of London...loads of changes, it's been 3 yrs since we last visited the city...the view of the LIVER building has been obstructed with new builds...anyhow, stilla great place for a day out with the family...
Huge General Cargo vessel belonging to the Wagenborg Shipping Group. One of 180 ships in their fleet.
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Falmouth Docks
Viscount Falmouth laying the foundation stone at Falmouth Docks, Cornwall - credit Falmouth Art Gallery
The development of Falmouth Docks began in 1858 and the foundation stone was laid by Viscount Falmouth in 1860 although the location of this stone is not known. The first ship to enter the docks arrived in 1861.
The Docks are currently managed and operated by A&P. At present Falmouth has three graving docks that provide up to 100,000 dwt dry dock capacity. There is a total wharfage with craneage and all other technical services, of 2.5km.
The docks are about to embark on an exciting phase of redevelopment that it is envisaged will include a world class 300 berth marina called Port Falmouth Marina. This will herald a new phase in the history of Falmouth Docks that will see new investment bringing benefits, not just for Falmouth, but the whole of Cornwall.
The regeneration plans include the provision of a new cruise liner terminal capable of accommodating the latest super cruisers. These plans are currently under assessment.
Our Falmouth port boasts one of the world’s largest natural deep-water harbours. Falmouth is the largest ship-repair complex in the UK with 3 large graving docks and extensive alongside deepwater berthing providing capacity for vessels up to 100,000 tonnes.
Offering onsite engineering, electrical, paint and fabrication workshops and links to all other specialist contractors and OEMs, these are integrated to provide a complete range of marine repair services to the customer.
As well as extensive workshop facilities across all disciplines Falmouth offers bunkering facilities, the ability to dock without gas-freeing, in-water surveys and propeller polishing.
Falmouth is a busy working port handling over 100,000T of product annually and with over 30 firms located in the docks providing a full range of services including towage, ship’s agency, area port health, diving services, local surveyors and tank washing.
Falmouth is used by 40,000+ cruise passengers annually who see Falmouth as the gateway to Cornwall. Partnerships Falmouth has many long-term shiprepair partners, including P&O, Grimaldi, Condor, Gardline, Euroships, Stena UK and the Ministry of Defence.
Ferry docked near the cobbled on Duke Street in Birkenhead. I liked how the cobbles draw the eye into the ferry and then onto th eflats in the background
These Stothert and Pitt cranes were originally installed on South Dock Six (in 1966). They were recently on the Ontario Basin and were destroyed on the weekend of 26 and 27th October 2013.
Personally, I am disappointed that they have gone. They were iconic landmarks. Money has been spent on new art works to commemorate the history of the docklands and yet these were a sort of sculpture that were actually a part of that history.
It would have been nice to stand on the other side and not have the railings in the way, but I'd have been run over trying.
The Docks from beneath the Bolte Bridge,Melbourne.Sun Mar 11,2012.3 exposure hdr processed with photomatix pro.
About:
View to the town from a neglected dock.
Los Vilos, Chile. November 2012.
The Shot:
With Nikon D3000, Nikon 18-55mm VR AF-S DX.
Process:
HDR processed from a single RAW file.
Tone-mapping: Photomatix Pro 4.2
Post-processing was done in Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom 3.
Any comments, feedback or criticisms are highly welcome! Thanks for viewing!
One of the lifting bridges into Surrey Commercial Docks. This bridge in Rotherhithe Street, Rotherhithe, was over the entrance from the Thames into a dock basin. The basin is now called Surrey Water.
Bad Form Flickr, Shadwell in on the North side of the River Thames, next to Wapping, Surrey Docks were South of the Thames in Rotherhithe.
Dock hidden, on left side of screen. No icons on desktop, totally clean. Back-lit, no flash, edited on MBP w. Preview.
The main part of the docks in the city - this photo was taken on a Monday morning, so unsurprisingly it wasn't that busy around these parts. I think much of this area has also been redeveloped in more recent times.
I remember when i was a kid, dock fishing in fire island. This other kid caught a 26 pound flounder off the end of the ocean beach dock. The fish was so big it filled an entire radio flyer wagon and was actually flopping over the sides. If anyone is still reading this, I just have to point out how the light leak looks like blood in the water right after a jaws attack! Scary!