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Salty Dog

The Zhen Hua 10, a 250m long freight vessel transporting 5 container cranes for Rotterdam and Bremen Harbour, ran aground last February near the Maasvlakte during a force 10 storm. The acronym ZPMC on the hull stands for : Zhen Hua Port Machine Company, the Shanghai company that manufactured the cranes. A small rescue dog came to assess the situation ;-). After three tries involving three tugs and 48 hours the vessel was towed in deeper water and could resume its journey.

Captured during an impromptu shoot with Rinie.

This will be my last post on TE for a long while my friends. I want to thank you warmly for all your support, kind words and enthusiasm the 4 ½ years I was active here on the site. Interacting with you I learned more about photography then I thot was possible, I made friends, and some of you crossed the border between the virtual and the real. And that’s great.
I always like to compare web communities with spaces in the real world and TE can be seen as a nice square where you hang out, exchange photo’s, meet your circle of friends, chat with newcomers and learn. The last 2 years I didn’t spend as much time here as before ‘cause the TE format with its rules and somewhat outdated interface were to constricting for the way I wanted my photography web presence to be. Having said that, posting on TE once a week felt good.
But lately I’m increasingly busy running my own consulting company. And TE? Well, the communicative culture of the forums has become somewhat objectionable and (in the process) the watchtowers have become higher, the bull horns louder. A vicious circle? I don’t know …… anyway, a set of conditions that prompted me to stop participating.
So thanx again of course also to Adam for developing the great TE format and maintaining the site…...goodbye for now.

Salty Dog was a classic sixties hit from Procul Harum. From the album with the same name, released on A&M in March 1969.

The PCS3 work flow: I altered the saturation, contrast, curves and levels for the whole pic and some elements separately, using different layers, enhanced the edges, USM-ed, added a frame and resized and did a gentle USM (0,3px, 18%) again on a 36 % transparent layer.


exif data
Camera Manufacturer : Canon
Camera Model : Canon EOS 30D
Exposure time [s] : 1/400
F-Number : 8.0
ISO speed ratings : 160
Date taken : 2008:02:03 16:27:18
Exposure bias value : -2/3
Metering mode : Evaluative, Multi-segment (5)
Exposure mode : Av-priority
Focal length [mm] : 66 mm (35 mm equiv)
Colour space : sRGB