The Sea-going Flaneur
In which RAY offers lessons from his image capture bag of tricks
Combining photography, appropriation, and photo-journalism
1.
The Museum of Everyday Life
A successful launch
A leisurely day on the sunshiny Bay
Maritime photography takes many forms
The tip of Alameda, the edge of the East bay
The glee of the children
In the good old Summertime
The salt-sprayed approach San Francisco,
Bald cell-phone greenhorn stepping on my shots
Pull into the Ferry Building,
A pedestrian pier where I have whiled away hours
Is visible under the edge of this awning
Onward to Pier 41,
Helicopters omnipresent
Here we are now,
entertain us
Transfer to an orange street car
Under sunny skies of blue
Fisherman's Wharf,
Ever thus
Fear of Music
from Jaws
from Jaws
Two emergency delivery trucks haul past
It's like the US flag
Coastal Motor Escort
Yet another sort of police
And so castles made of sand
Fall in the sea eventually
Lovely day with a gentle breeze
Beach crowd still sparse
The dislocation of being indoors
2.
The Maritime Arts
Leo with spiral eyeballs
The Scotsman figurehead cracked at the last
A ship of shells
Expands in the imagination
A passage home from a shipwrecked isle
Messenger in a bottle
Hilaire Hiller painting the psychedelic murals
The vagaries of the sea
Indeterminacy of Stephane Mallarme
Ambiguity of hour
A study in knot work
A elongated boat,
That ranger's rocking derriere
Knots that border on the mystical
Seance for a sea-bound afternoon
The Lion's mate equally intense
3.
Out of Doors
Out of Doors
Rest period
Dreaming away under a bush
Dreaming away under a bush
The kids all wade in the water
Adults act like it's liquid nitrogen,
Needless to say whose side I'm on
Maritime Art Image-capture
Another couple hours before my departure time
Dig the numerals on this old clock
Hey, Girls, get a load of these huge balls,
They acted like they were deaf
You know the old saying,
She who hesitates is lost
She who hesitates is lost
Time to get back on the trail, no doubt
14 August 2015
