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I like the colors...
Oct 30, 2018 13:49:22 #
Spent several hours Sunday standing on an concrete stairway that, at one time, descended to a dock of some kind. It's now falling apart- the stairs, I mean; the dock is gone; only a few pilings remain. The sky here is wonderful- well, the clouds are wonderful, given a large, unobstructed view of both sky and sea and room for imagination... This shot has a texture overlay of sunlight reflected from the sea's rippled surface. I shot the texture on my arrival to GTMO as our plane banked and descended. I wondered then about applying a GTMO texture to a GTMO image... and speculated as to its parallel to the Judaic prohibition of mixing meat and dairy; one a derivative of the other... So.... my descent via plane and stairs- to a broken plane, where sun descends into the sea and is mixed with a Photoshop layer of the sea.... you see the nonsense... Regardless, I liked the colors, the texture and the random firing of synapse...
Oct 30, 2018 13:55:58 #
Oct 30, 2018 14:14:36 #
I've never been there but my hubby was there when he was in the Navy, many years ago. He said he didn't much care for the place, to restrictive and not much to do and no where to go. He once described it as a paradise with a barbed wire boarder. Problem was, most of it was on the other side of the fence. I like your photo, it's interesting, sceren.
Oct 30, 2018 16:43:33 #
Robyn H wrote:
I've never been there but my hubby was there when he was in the Navy, many years ago. He said he didn't much care for the place, to restrictive and not much to do and no where to go. He once described it as a paradise with a barbed wire boarder. Problem was, most of it was on the other side of the fence. I like your photo, it's interesting, sceren.
I was there in the late 80's with my wife and kids for three years. Outstanding SCUBA diving, several beaches, movies in the lyceums almost every night. They make an effort to get people out on R&R flights to Jamaica and Puerto Rico a couple times a year. It was restrictive, but not as restrictive as being on a ship and it counts as sea duty for Navy personnel. It could have been a lot worse, I have experienced a lot worse. And a lot worse than a barbed wire border, it was a (very) active mine field border.
Oct 30, 2018 20:53:37 #
I'll take that as positive, Chief- THANKS!
Retired CPO wrote:
OKAY!
Oct 30, 2018 21:04:31 #
Tell hubby it's still restrictive - probably more so- and still not much to do- probably less... but it's interesting- for now... and there are things to think about. I do spend time looking across the fence. No, not much there to envy... I see the Cuban Army, in their towers, no A/C, and on foot... I don't know if they're happy or not. That's the thing... you can't envy or imagine what you don't know... so, I imagine Hemingway, cigars and whiskey... but don't smoke... Thanks for commenting, Robyn, much appreciated.
Robyn H wrote:
I've never been there but my hubby was there when he was in the Navy, many years ago. He said he didn't much care for the place, to restrictive and not much to do and no where to go. He once described it as a paradise with a barbed wire boarder. Problem was, most of it was on the other side of the fence. I like your photo, it's interesting, sceren.
Oct 30, 2018 21:23:37 #
fuminous wrote:
Tell hubby it's still restrictive - probably more ... (show quote)
One thing that I've often wondered about and we've talked a little about, but not a whole lot, is why he joined the Navy in the first place. He's more of an Air Force kinda guy. Aren't most Navy personal assigned to ships? He's not what I'd call a ship board guy, not even a big ship, like the last ship he served on, the USS Midway. He was on a destroyer when he went to Cuba. I don't recall the ships name but I've been on a destroyer and they can be pretty cramped, and he does not care for cramped at all. We have a small bathroom downstairs and we won't use it with the door closed, too small, confining for him. I can't imagine him sharing one of those 2 by 6 bunks with another person either. And according to him he's been claustrophobic as long as he remembers.
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Oct 30, 2018 23:01:01 #
I can't speak to hubby's accommodations when he was here but, typically, unaccompanied enlisted personnel have something similar to a college dorm, shared room with one other, and a bathroom/shower down the hall. Junior officers- also unaccompanied (that means, "no family here") have private rooms but a bath shared with one other. Accompanied sailors/soldiers, regardless of rank, have apartments of 2 or three bedrooms and larger families have individual homes. I, as a civilian, unaccompanied, have a two bedroom apartment- about 1,000 square feet... not too shabby, really.
Having lived in an 8X20 shipping container with a roommate- sometimes two- it can, indeed, feel claustrophobic.
A Navy guy... one difference between the services, I've noted, is that Army folks go multiple times to the same areas- usually not fun places- while the Navy, "sees the world", literally. To me, that has appeal and the appeal is sufficient to make minor inconveniences bearable.
Having lived in an 8X20 shipping container with a roommate- sometimes two- it can, indeed, feel claustrophobic.
A Navy guy... one difference between the services, I've noted, is that Army folks go multiple times to the same areas- usually not fun places- while the Navy, "sees the world", literally. To me, that has appeal and the appeal is sufficient to make minor inconveniences bearable.
Robyn H wrote:
One thing that I've often wondered about and we've... (show quote)
Oct 31, 2018 04:34:08 #
fuminous wrote:
I can't speak to hubby's accommodations when he wa... (show quote)
I don't believe he had any accommodation on land, just lived on board the destroyer. He said they sailed the east coast of the USA from New England to Cuba, back and forth. Would stop in Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia or Norfolk along the way. Sounds kinda boring. He served on three other ships, the last one was the aircraft carrier USS Midway, which is now a museum ship in New York.
Oct 31, 2018 06:01:35 #
If he lived on board a ship, then he wasn't stationed here. There are no ships docked here- or stay longer than a day- except a few Coast Guard folks but they have their own little compound. So, yeah, if he was quartered on ship and only got to stretch his legs in Guantanamo, then he was no doubt bored out of his mind.
Robyn H wrote:
I don't believe he had any accommodation on land, just lived on board the destroyer. He said they sailed the east coast of the USA from New England to Cuba, back and forth. Would stop in Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia or Norfolk along the way. Sounds kinda boring. He served on three other ships, the last one was the aircraft carrier USS Midway, which is now a museum ship in New York.
Oct 31, 2018 06:09:12 #
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Oct 31, 2018 11:56:54 #
Robyn H wrote:
I don't believe he had any accommodation on land, just lived on board the destroyer. He said they sailed the east coast of the USA from New England to Cuba, back and forth. Would stop in Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia or Norfolk along the way. Sounds kinda boring. He served on three other ships, the last one was the aircraft carrier USS Midway, which is now a museum ship in New York.
Correction, the Midway is in California, the USS Intrepid is in New York.
Oct 31, 2018 13:20:19 #
Oct 31, 2018 21:42:31 #
Glad you like it, Wayne- do appreciate you droppin' in- THANKS!
wayne barnett wrote:
Great composition
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