Dawn 2023
I made my way through all the weird car wrecks on the Belt Parkway this morning to get to my cliff just before sunrise. A small bulk carrier headed to Gravesend Anchorage while a tanker was anchored farther out. About those wrecks . . . three multiple-car collisions in same-direction lanes between Woodhaven and the […]
Dawn 2023 B
Part B of this post is a corrective. The lead photo I used two days ago was NOT the first photo I took in 2023; rather, the one below was: a pristine 1969 or 1970 Buick Electra (?) parked here by another photographer wanting to get golden hour photos of the sunrise over waters near […]
KVK Dawn 7
Here were previous iterations of this title, as well as here, an AK Sunrise. If this effort were for a work published when complete, inconsistencies like dawn v. sunrise would be aligned, but this has always been a work in progress, a wandering that could end at any time. So yesterday morning I was at […]
Random Mississippi River Towboats* 1
Note the shift in the title. I don’t want to be stubborn. Besides, I’ve resolved this for myself over a decade ago here and here. Thx for writing me about the title. While I’m at it, let me suggest you check out this blog written by a river engineer. I especially like the “secrecy” […]
KVK Dawn 6
Steve Munoz took the first three photos in October 1986 from Borenquin. The tug identified as Kathryne E. McAllister appears to be the one from 1975, now known as Brendan Turecamo. Borenquin lived many lives between launching in Vancouver WA in 1945 and scrapping in Beihei CH (near the northeastern border of Vietnam) in 1989. […]
Dawn 2021
It’s morning again! If you can read photo, this is a long one, will take you a while. Truth be told, I took this photo on December 28, but close enough. Seeing the magic of dawn light is the reason I often get up in the brutal darkness. If you want to see something extraordinary, […]
Narrows Dawn 4
Here are previous installments. What’s different here is that in this case I’m inside the Narrows and shooting to the east and north. Yankee passes in light before sunrise. I rotate the lens 90 degrees to the right and Margaret stands by along with James D to support Maersk Chicago, anchored in Stapleton. As I […]
Random Tugs 374
All these tugboats have a common design feature. I’ll let you figure it out. Eastern Dawn pushed a load of scrap westbound in the Kills. James William showed off her bow as she traveled light toward the Upper Bay. Ditto Buchanan 12, usually confined to pushing up and down the Hudson with a train […]
Other Peoples Photos 106
Many thanks to my friend Lew who sent along the next two photos of MNI (Mohawk Northeast Inc.) boats. Michael is a 2004 Bayou La Batre build, 71′ x 28′ and bringing 2100 hp to the job. Previously, I’d seen MNI tug Swift, with its unique yellow livery, in the sixth boro. Lew also got […]
Random Tugs 378
Let’s jump back to the present . . . and Doris Moran, both light and moving containers across the harbor to the other container port back fields. If I count right, that’s 160 containers not on chassis pulled by trucks on the BQE, SIE, or other such clogged arteries. Brinn Courtney is moving a scow, […]
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