January 2023 Fishing
Eastern Welder and Dutch Girl have been coming into the sixth boro to rake clams for as long as I’ve been keeping a record, which goes back only to winter 2007. It’s probably high time I get more info from the commercial fishermen themselves, but as speaking only as a photographer here, I associate winter […]
Winter Solstice 2021
Winter solstice is one date I pay attention to, and yesterday demanded an undivided portion of it. I was out on the sixth and primordial boro at sunrise, although when it rose, a gauzy film of stratus filtered the light. I tinkered with the image a bit to enhance the cosmic eeriness. Along the Brooklyn […]
Random Sixth Boro 10
The sixth boro, i.e., the watery part that holds the other boros together, is the one that never sleeps, with current, tides, mechanical denizens and their operators, their flora and fauna, . . . I’ll leave the list there for now. You can read the season changing in the fact that Eastern Welder has reappeared […]
Random Sixth Boro 12
It’s hard to beat morning light for drama, as is the case here with QM2 getting assisted by James D. and Doris Moran into her berth in Red Hook, as I shoot into that light. Taken only a few minutes later, this photo of FV Eastern Welder dragging the bottom in front of the Weeks […]
Fall 2020 Fishing
Fishing grounds . . . the NJ Upper Bay portion of the sixth boro. Quick question to be answered at the end of the post: how many commercial fishing ports does NJ have and can you name them? Eastern Welder is a perennial boat here; Hyundai Victory is one of the ULCVs newly recent here. […]
Retro Sixth Boro 56
This monthly practice of looking back a decade gives me an opportunity to dust off a specific part of the archive in tugster tower. Besides sneezing sometimes because of the dust, I also feel amazed about the amount of change, small changes maybe but significant it seems. Evening Mist has become Everly Mist, and is […]
Outbound 5
This series goes way back . . . in fact, the first installment was in 2006 using some photos I took in 2003, on my first trip up the Hudson. What struck me yesterday as Nord Gainer headed out . . . was how much business was being taken care of on the fly . […]
Spring Fishing 2020
It’s the sheer diversity of traffic on the sixth boro that keeps me coming back, although diverse does not mean unpredictable. In summer, mermaids gather, specifically around the very day of the solstice. In winter, fishing boats come . In fall, the fishing boats are of a different sort. Chele-C was fishing on the west […]
Fishing February
I’ve done lots of fishing posts, mostly about this unlikely estuary, where I’ve never fished. Here’s Virginia Sue heading past Sakizaya Champion and out the Narrows. By the way, I’m planning a post on that fort in the distance some day soon. Dutch Girl is a regular here, as is the unlikely named but […]
Random Tugs 188
If you squint, you can almost imagine Ellen McAllister is out at sea, with a big blue sky beyond her. But that blue is also Maersk blue; to know how to create that blue, read through this thread and you’ll get the mix. And this name . . . I couldn’t get the echo “sheer […]
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