An old #boat rusting on the shore in #Iceland. A daily photo from my archives.
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'lesbians love whale watching. they fucking love it' - margaret cho

https://popagandhi.com/photos/whale-watching/

UK canal maps can be misleading. They suggest locations will be more urban than they feel. Real life is usually greener.

In summer, most canals are a leafy ribbon—trees and shrubs on both sides. A gap in the trees might reveal rolling hills, cows and sheep, a factory, or houses.

Mobile-phone maps make it easy to find groceries and laundrettes (laundromats), so you can stop where convenience is on your leafy doorstep.

Estimating time to destination is easier with milemarkers than with kilometer markers.

Boats go 3 miles an hour, or 5 kilometers an hour. Count up the markers, divide by 3 or by 5 to estimate the duration. Simple enough.

Locks "⟨" are 3 an hour.

So, on an old map you count every milemarker and every ⟨ lock marker, and divide the total by 3 to estimate the hours.

On a map with kilometer markers, you need to count them separately.

After the storm, the dock isn't exactly straight. The gusting wind has shifted all our boats, and the dock with it.

The dock consists of floating pontoons, each of which has been forced a few degrees to the left. In addition to the resulting curve, the dock is listing slightly.

It will settle, and when as the wind blows the other way the dock will straighten out.

An old #boat rusting on the shore in #Iceland. A daily photo from my archives.
bewarethecheese.com #photography #travel

stockholm, sweden
may 1959

dip net, stockholm harbor

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/53629864023
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/6555971631/

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

#SchiffSamstag #SchiffsSamstag

Just Enough Power To Put The Boat In Orbit

When we first start to do something, anything, we're not very good at it, and yet for some reason we're expected to be -- either the pressure we put on ourselves or that which our society constantly exerts upon us.

But to do something, anything, well, it takes time, practice, study, patience, and incredible amounts of determination.

Ahead of the Storm canvas print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/ahead-of-the-storm-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

An old #boat rusting on the shore in #Iceland. A daily photo from my archives.
bewarethecheese.com #photography #travel

sigtuna, sweden
may 1959

lake mälaren

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/53629653021
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/52197249884/

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

A view across a harbor to the colorful buildings on a hillside of Gytheio Greece. A boat floats in the water in the foreground.

https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/sunlit-coastal-scene-gytheio-greece-joan-carroll.html

#Greece #gytheio #peloponnese #coastal #town #boat #village #colorful #cityscape #reflections #water #buyart #wallart #artforsale #artstore #travel #travelphotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #wallartforsale #giftideas @joancarroll

#ThrowbackThursday
#Shipwreck in #CadboroBay.
2015.

Sunshine makes the ripples on the canal sparkle.

The ducks, moorhens, and swans are starting their "just surviving" season—no longer defending territory, any remaining young are grown.

Dogs, foxes, and the cold aren't ideal. But when the sun's out, life is quack-quack for ducks, peep for moorhens, and—as always—mute for swans.

There are plenty of cautious birds hiding in this photo.

RRS Sir David Attenborough Webcam via https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/images/webcams/rrs-sir-david-attenborough-webcam/

Current location: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9798222