Abandoned Sailboat (Page 2): That would be a treat. Hemingway. Thanks for the comment.

WildBill Loc: South West Florida

craig.j.tucker wrote:

Looks like it could be on the cover of "The Old Man and the Sea."

That would be a treat. Hemingway. Thanks for the comment.

kerry12 Loc: Harrisburg, Pa.

WildBill wrote:

Happy to be back. Figured I would start off with a sailboat, abandoned and washed up on the shore in SW Florida. Please... any critique welcome. Always looking to do better. Lots to learn. Canon 28-135 IS lens on T3 (crap camera... liked my XTi over this one). See you in many more posts soon.

I too like the composition. Nice photo.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

I like the background for establishing context.
Interesting foreground too.
Thanks!

WildBill Loc: South West Florida

kerry12 wrote:

I too like the composition. Nice photo.

Thanks so much.

WildBill Loc: South West Florida

Toment wrote:

I like the background for establishing context.
Interesting foreground too.
Thanks!

Thank you. I loved the setting as soon as I saw it but then the real work of getting the frame right. This was my best attempt (IMHO) but I may post others later. I love boats and that is why I grabbed the boat in the background too. Want eye to have places to go but not to distract from the subject and not sure I was successful in that here.

Vietnam Vet

Nice picture. Can you tone down the sky a bit? The brightness is a bit distracting from your subject. Have you tried a crop without the sky?

Bertk Loc: NY

Nice shot, good composition...

WildBill Loc: South West Florida

Vietnam Vet wrote:

Nice picture. Can you tone down the sky a bit? The brightness is a bit distracting from your subject. Have you tried a crop without the sky?

Toning down the sky actually hurts this photo. I have not tried cropping out the sky in this photo but have in others. I think I would need to be at a higher elevation to successfully pull that off.

WildBill Loc: South West Florida

Bertk wrote:

Nice shot, good composition...

Thank you

cdayton

Nice picture of a sad scene.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Good shot Bill. Abandon boats have been a problem in Florida. Lived in Slidell, La. when Katrina hit, would guess thousands of boats washed onto shore and also deep into the marsh never to be found. Saw a steel hull shrimp boat washed onto HWY 90.

Don

Kuzano

WildBill wrote:

Happy to be back. Figured I would start off with a sailboat, abandoned and washed up on the shore in SW Florida. Please... any critique welcome. Always looking to do better. Lots to learn. Canon 28-135 IS lens on T3 (crap camera... liked my XTi over this one). See you in many more posts soon.

Nice image, and being in Fla, could be one of the "ghost ships" of the 2008 Recession. I read many articles about people on hard times, who could not afford the payments or moorage costs of their pleasure boats simply untying them from their slips and setting them adrift in open water. Many of the marshlands and shorelines were littered with power and sail boats in the Gulf, the Keys and the inland water ways of the East Coast. It was not uncommon to see more than one boat drifting in open water or ashore in the reeds.

Salvage laws made such boats attractive for those who went after them. One source of good articles around that time was the magazine Wooden Boat which I follow frequently. I followed many of these "Ghost Ship articles.

WildBill Loc: South West Florida

WildBill wrote:

Thank you

WildBill Loc: South West Florida

PAR4DCR wrote:

Good shot Bill. Abandon boats have been a problem in Florida. Lived in Slidell, La. when Katrina hit, would guess thousands of boats washed onto shore and also deep into the marsh never to be found. Saw a steel hull shrimp boat washed onto HWY 90.

Don

Katrina was horrible but some good came of it too. I saw a huge change in people for the better in many places as they banded together to cope with the disaster. Shrimp boat on HWY 90? Got a picture of that? WOW.

WildBill Loc: South West Florida

Kuzano wrote:

Nice image, and being in Fla, could be one of the "ghost ships" of the 2008 Recession...

Salvage laws made such boats attractive for those who went after them. One source of good articles around that time was the magazine Wooden Boat which I follow frequently. I followed many of these "Ghost Ship articles.

Not a sailor myself but this boat looks very salvageable. I am more a fisherman and hope to one day have a boat again. Stuck on the shore for now but that lets me bring the good camera along to take pictures like this. Thanks for the comment. Happy Shooting.