Krammer Locks 17:02 GMT Photo

Photographer’s Note

Posting after the 17:02 GMT on March 19th 2005, an idea of Aleksei aka kolesn, see Forum.

This view is a little part of our daily life in Zeeland which has a tough past with water and flood. I had thought to see a lot further after climbing the tower - just looking over the Krammer locks, about 5km from home - but there was a dense foggy weather and suddenly I discovered the pattern of the water in the locks, just under the tower. It's almost situated on the spot were the Grevelingendam and the Philipsdam are connected.

Text from WEB:

The construction of the Grevelingendam started in 1958. After seven years of hard work, the dam was completely finished. With a length of six kilometres, the Grevelingen dam was much longer than the Zandkreek dam and the Veerse Gat dam. Caissons were not suitable for this project. Therefore, a revolutionary technique was used to build a part of the dam: via cable ways large blocks of stone were plunged into the water. The rest of the dam was built by means of usual techniques, such as raising sand and sinking down caissons. The Grevelingendam was completed in 1965.

The Philipsdam, between Sint-Philipsland and the Grevelingendam, was constructed in 1987 in the same way as the Oesterdam, by temporarily closing the Eastern Scheldt Storm Surge Barrier and pumping up sand.
Shipping locks were built in the Philipsdam. The Krammer locks have been equipped with a system to separate salt and fresh water. As ships pass through the locks, too much salt water could flow into the fresh water Krammer/Volkerak and, conversely, too much fresh water could flow into the Eastern Scheldt estuary. The separation system prevents this.

kolesn, saintclaude, PixelTerror, ninadev, Didi, joso, Galmeida, jrj, bertolucci has marked this note useful

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saintclaude (1398) 2005-03-19 14:52 [Comment]

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PixelTerror (86797) 2005-03-19 15:21

Bonsoir Viviane,
Bel ajout treeeees tres graphiqie avec toutes ces lignes lignes plus ou moins convergentes, j'aime bien ce petit signe rouge qui cqpte l'oeil dans cet univers de gris, la note est excellente !
Bon week end,
Jean-Yves

tontonjc (6617) 2005-03-19 15:25

Joli graphisme avec cette touche de rouge et le haut parleur. j'aime bien

Bravo

ninadev (5225) 2005-03-19 18:04

Belle étude de ces lignes horizontales et de leur réflexion avec une petite touche de rouge pour agrémenter.
Quel travail de recherche pour nous donner toutes ces informations ! merci !

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Didi (36420) 2005-03-20 6:02

Bonjour Viviane
Le mot Pattern est très utilisé en photographie; en Anglais il a plus d'impact, mais en Français il signifie modèle répété.
Alors votre "Pattern" est bien agencé avec une rupture de parallélisme qui attire le regard vers le "truc" rouge.
Merci Viviane

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joso (1786) 2005-03-21 4:41

March 21 2005 09:26 CET
I`ll not comment the quality of the photo.
But I thank to you (all) for letting me beeing on 43 different places in the same moment, letting me see with your eyes, having somehow the same thoughts, letting me feel yoir spirit in the moment as I put my finger on the shutter.

Special thanks for Aleksei(kolesn) for his idea.

But although I have all that good feelings, after the enthusiasm of the moment has gone, there's something taht makes me think about.
There are actualy 13099 members on TE.
43 of them participated...

János

Maru (0) 2005-03-21 6:57

Hi viviane,
I like very much this graphic and geometrical composition, with that tiny red dot of color!
Great shades and reflections over the water.. and fantastic POV.
Marisa

Galmeida (12559) 2005-03-21 8:11

Sorry for the delay, but life is life. Thanks for this nice moment picture of your country and also for your contribution to this interesting idea of Kolesn. Good composition for a great moment at TE.

Congratulations.
Regards

jrj (34779) 2005-03-22 10:51 [Comment]

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SophieL (6030) 2005-03-24 15:25

It looks like a complicated structure. I'm not sure I understand where the construction ends and where the water begins. And actually, I don't care. I just follow the lines and the patterns, a very geometrical view, all grey and white except the red spots (life buoys?). Very interesting, and a fine addition to the collective theme.

bertolucci (11994) 2005-04-10 17:16

Bon soir Viviane, what a exciting graphism this is! I like the subtle "Z' composition and the limited amount of colours a lot here and yes, the pattern of the water is lovely though a tiny bit overexposed, but this adds to the charm here. And before I forget: the bright orange buoy makes thes shot. Very good work.
Regards from Rotterdam, Bert.

maciekda (19599) 2005-04-14 14:10

very nice composition here, i like this kind of graphism, this red spot and its reflection are very important here - make the picture alive, very interesting work, well seen

Furachan (0) 2005-08-05 4:09

Bonjour Viviane. C'est tellement bien vu ca, et tellement "Hollande" aussi. EN plus de L'exquise geometrie de ta compo, j'aime le fait qu'au mileiu de cette image presque monochromatique, on trouve une touche de rouge, et exactement la ou il faut. Superbe. Et bon, moi j'aime donner les petites pastilles vertes, au passage...Amicalement, Francis