It could be called pigment, watercolor, skycolor, light . . . But what matters to me is the impact it has on my mood. How can I not feel uplifted by this brightness? What is this . . . a doorway into what?
Passage for pilots, of course. But what a vessel! An uberbox enveloping many smaller boxes, a different set of boxes shuffled together at regular intervals, probably never again to coexist. An early 21st-century ark of disposable stuff never paired but rather mass-produced in the millions. And a disposable ark to move them over the deeps. Its stern marked with a place of convenience, a place having no other meaning, no real significance. They might as well be lunar like Western Mare Frigoris or Sinus Asperitatis West…
unlike Charles D. McAllister, whose portrait probably hangs on a wall somewhere or languishes in a scrapbook.
Here’s a nameless vessel, at least from this perspective, although some of us know its name. Any guesses?
Genco Success: for the observer, just a bulker name, but for crew who live aboard, rich positive or maybe negative connotations.
This beautifully colored unique vessel used to by called Lil Ripper; I like the shortened name and I love the brightness, truly a Hudson River original.
Nameless . . . they’re nimble and passengers board and debark expeditiously.
Decolored mostly, these portions that stay immersed. Any guesses before you see the rest of the construction, soon?
Really sad colors on Philip T. Better to be reefed or smelted than to be left in limbo like this, a once-storied tugboat that’s now like some litter on the bank behind a storage yard for dumpsters.
All fotos during this recent burst of sunshine by Will Van Dorp.
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November 15, 2010 at 2:25 pm
mageb
The top and bottom shots are two of your very best artistically.
November 15, 2010 at 3:24 pm
tugster
hmmm . . i could have called the post using just those two “openings” or “ports.” thanks for feedback, mage, and be well.
November 15, 2010 at 3:52 pm
JED
GENCO
Fosters memories of the Genco Olive Oil company and Don Vito
November 16, 2010 at 4:11 pm
tugster
you can tell i’m not much of a movie buff: i had to look up the reference. oh! there are sorry gaps in my basic knowledge.
November 15, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Cold is the Sea
Love that first one! Great palette!
Sky blue. Grass green. Scrape gray, and rust… 🙂
November 15, 2010 at 10:13 pm
mageb
RYN: Thanks for asking. It’s an early doodle, an attempt to catch a moment at the beach long before I went back to art school and ruined my ability to doodle. I did it.
November 18, 2010 at 12:15 am
Dennis Willard
“lil rip”
i’m amazed at how far some of these little guys can wander . . .
i took a few photos of her up on roundout creek just last month.
November 18, 2010 at 5:23 am
tugster
lil rip could habe been back in rondout 12 hours after i took this sunny foto.