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17-JUL-2007 Najinsky

Hot water bottle 2

Jersey Marina

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS
1/40s f/10.0 at 85.0mm iso200 hide exif
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Date/Time17-Jul-2007 20:46:41
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 20D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length85 mm
Exposure Time1/40 sec
Aperturef/10
ISO Equivalent200
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White Balance
Metering Modeaverage (1)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
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Canon DSLR Challenge20-Jul-2007 14:10
Thanks Jim. The marina staff saw me taking the pictures and one came over and explained their cleaning process. I think he was half embarrassed and half concerned the pictures were going to be the basis of a complaint. I told him about the competition and that I understood about the flow of flotsam, which I think put him at ease. A day later there was hardly a scrap in sight. The dangerous thing with titles is you can transform a picture into a story, when in reality, it's still only a snapshot of a moment in time. -Regards, Najinsky
Guest 19-Jul-2007 15:58
Najinsky, your pictures iare fantastic, but I find your reply below to be equally compelling. When I first looked at your beautiful and topical posts for this challenge, my first thought (knee-jerk reaction) was- "Well, I'm never going to the Jersey Marina". After viewing them again I was reminded of an experience I had when I was in college. I went to an art show and someone had entered a picture of a dead duck titled "Death by Pollution" or "Killed by Pollution" something to that effect. Of course it got everyone riled up and all anyone talked about after that was how terrible people were and how we were killing the planet. After talking with the photographer, I discovered that he had just seen the dead bird by a lake, taken the picture and given it a name. The duck could have easily been a great grandfather with a full life and a bad heart, we'll never know.

Nobody wants ducks to die from pollution, and nobody wants filthy polluted shorelines as your pictures would indicate. Most ducks die from natural causes (or I'll grant you- bird shot) and most of your marina probably doesn't look like the pictures you've shown us. When I look at them now all I can think is " How easy it must be to collect all that trash that would otherwise be scatted about."


Nice going mother nature.

The hard part now of course is decising which of your images to vote into first place.

Jim H2
Canon DSLR Challenge18-Jul-2007 14:51
Hey Dan, it's really not that heavy. The waters around here have one of the largest tidal ranges in the world. The land area can actually double between cirtain types of high and low tides. The combination of this ebb and flow and the walls of the marina make it a natual collector for many types of floating junk. It doesn't mean the junk got tossed there deliberately. The bottle for example may simply have been blown overboard from a boat out at sea (or unfortunately the occaisonal shipwreck) and eventually found its way to that corner of the marina, where periodically the marina staff clean it up and then it's recycled. That little bottle may have seen quite a few adventures!! - Thanks for the comment. -Najinsky
Dan Chusid18-Jul-2007 05:54
Beautiful view of a not so beautiful world.
Reality sometimes sucks...