Ships in the Day

Bowsprite put up an interesting post recently of shots made sans tripod showing ships passing in the night as some runny ooze (oozy run?), but it’s pretty and she herself makes comparisons with fruitcake, which I like.  But I wish to show here that ships do NOT always pass in the night, do NOT always approach and separate without making a difference or lasting impression.  They also pass in the day, in the effulgence of 10 am springtime warm sun.  Like Zim San Francisco,

Dynamic Express with its orange shimmer on the water that would give Monet inspiration,

Dynamic Express neither upwind nor upriver but surely uplight,

Zim San Francisco uplight,

Atlas Valor being muscled like a heifer on a halter and

struggling back against Rosemary‘s bollard pull,

Azov Sea offloading not unlike a nursing mammal (the young here being IMTT Bayonne,

with crew boat Matthew Scott passing above and Bismark Sea (I think this is a first appearance for Bismark Sea on this blog.) and Turecamo Boys passing below,

and Jo Ask of

somewhat web-secretive Jo Tankers.

Some interesting statistics on the decline in shipping demand and prices can be had in this article from a recent issue of the New York Times.

Remember . . . ships do NOT only pass in the night.  I prefer mine in daylight, if I might choose.

Photos, WVD.