I don’t use the word much, either because I lack it or because it’s such a given that I’ve become unaware of its existence in my life… and I really can’t tell which. McAllister Girls motors determinedly to prevent the momentum about 500 times its mass from crushing a dock.
Meet the momentum, APL Cyprine, entering port at dawn a few days before the fall equinox
like the dark power its name suggests
But Girls and Rowan McAllister vector the 5000+ TEU Cyprine into its slot
Two tugs v. 5000 trucks move it in place
and all before breakfast and
without doubt that three more shifts can be done before lunch.
All fotos, Will Van Dorp.
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September 20, 2008 at 11:06 am
suburbanlife
These are amazing photographs, Will. The contrast of the size of the container ship and the tugs is awesome, particularly when considering the immense chore of nudging behemoths like this by small vessels. The second photo in Yellow, orange and mauve makes me want to write a poem about the beauty of the working waterfont – much more so than say, of waxing poetic about the standard beauty shot of the leisure waterfront. That photo has delicious colour – what a feast for the eyes! G