Dimitris, of Volos Photo

Photographer’s Note

Volos has a very big fishing fleet. The fleet does it’s thing at night . Each boat has it’s own gas lighting system on board. The big ones have a extensive arrays of it. When returning to port early in the morning much of the cargo of the big ships goes directly to distributors, the fish auction in Piraeus, the canning factory in the Industrial area of Volos or the local fish market.

The smaller vessels, one of which is potrayed here while the proprietor is gutting a fish , sells mostly directly to customer who come to the quay. So most small boats are equipped with cold storage, scales etc to serve as vending station. When the boats arrive with some special fish you can see large queues forming.
The average length of a small coastal fishing vessel in this e area is 11 meters. Usually, it caries an engine powered with some 100 hp with a capacity of 15-18 GRT. The business are mostly family owned one boat operations.

Fishery remains a vital economic and social activity in many coastal areas in Greece. However, the implementation of new technology in the sector over the years has led to overcapitalization (fishing fleet enhancement, increase in vessel capacity, new catch technologies) affecting the fish population. Inevitably, unemployment and income decrease drove many fishermen to job alteration and often also to migration. Nevertheless, an expanding aquaculture industry offered new job opportunities.

Pic stats: Focal length 70 mm, F5,6, shutter 1/300, 64ASA:
PS-E2 tech:, cropped, fill flashed some dark areas, levels & contrast adjusted, saturation (master) boosted, USM-ed, frame added and saved for the web.

jhm, carper, spence, Galeota, c_kyr, Eagle78, Proxilva, nwoehnl, Hanssie, Rinie_Hoff, pamastro, Georges, cmartos, elroyie, Letr, cgrindahl, rudymalou has marked this note useful

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jhm (82629) 2004-08-13 5:39

Deze visser heeft blijkbaar iets gevangen Bert, het is zeer mooi hoe u dit heb weergegeven, de kleuren zijn fantasties, zelfs de natte handen van de visser zijn waar te nemen wat de scherpte aangeeft. Mooi werk.

carper (64948) 2004-08-13 6:03

erg mooie Bert,
Erg goede kleuren met een hele goede diepte in de compositie, zeer goed genomen, prachtig gecropt, erg goed werk

spence (1679) 2004-08-13 6:24

Nice light here Bert, and a good close crop of an interesting subject. The colours are great too.

Galeota (10334) 2004-08-13 6:36

Nice composition with striking saturated colours. Very interesting and well documented note.

c_kyr (1810) 2004-08-13 9:28

Great capture of thee daily life here.
The colors and sharpness are beautiful.
Very well done!

Eagle78 (1925) 2004-08-13 9:47

Wow...this is a great photojornalism work Bert :) Together with your image you made a great informative search here...just love it :) it´s so...so...so daily life! Cool :)

Proxilva (2157) 2004-08-13 9:59

very nice bright and vivid colors....and thanks for the informational note... like them both..

nwoehnl (120) 2004-08-13 12:23

A beautiful daily life shot with the fisher, Bert. The tight cropping around the boat really gives focus on this delightful scene that is so rich in colors. I love how much time it takes to explore all the details :-) Great informative note, too, well done!

Hanssie (9133) 2004-08-13 14:13

Hello my Rotterdam-friend ! ! !
No industrial today....
But instead of, a great scene of the fisherman and his boat full of details,
there's so many to look at in this shot and
one with superb light and colours, together with an interesting note !

Rinie_Hoff (9332) 2004-08-13 17:42

Hi Bert, beautiful holiday pic, fantastic colour range. Great sharpness, and details. i like especially somehow the middle crtae, because it's in the shade, and carries nice patterns. Calm sea behind it.
Very nice

pamastro (7213) 2004-08-14 1:27

Beautiful colors and nice and sharp. I really like how the boat fills the shot. The fisherman busy working is well captured. His catch is also very nicely captured. And I love the textures. The boat is really strongly felt. Nicely done.

Georges (11183) 2004-08-14 4:10

La presentation de la scene est parfaitement soignée et de trés bons détails se degage trés bien pour donner de la force a la prise.
J'apprecis plus particulierement les couleurs qui attirent bien le regard.
Bravo Bert

Ebbe (9571) 2004-08-14 13:09

A nice journalistic picture of a man, his work and his equipment. Crop is well done and the colors are lovely. Just one bad thing - the bright frame kills it.

cmartos (6086) 2004-08-14 22:10

What a nice catch. A delightful mediteranean scenery, full of sun and life! I just love fisherman and sea pictures. Yours is excellent, so nice and warm lighting, so strong colours. Thanks for the note too, a fne daily-life catch!

elroyie (2750) 2004-08-16 3:39

The colours are stunning, very good composition, there are a lot of details in this picture but they are combining well with your composition, I think that you could do a littl zoom on this guy and catch the upper part a little bit from under the left hand.

Letr (0) 2004-08-16 10:26

Very nice colors with excellent composition Bert..Thanks for sharing !!

jrj (34779) 2004-08-18 14:14

Good photo with the many details. Nice done

maphoto (8076) 2004-08-18 22:19

Very good close up Bert and nice details, very good daily life shot, well done.

hanza (118) 2004-08-21 6:57 [Comment]

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cgrindahl (6109) 2004-08-21 13:10

Colors are delicious and details are fine as well. Coupled with your wonderfully informative note this is a great TE shot Bert, especially apropos with the Olympics happening in Athens at the moment. Thanks for the contribution.

rudymalou (800) 2004-08-22 16:41

A very well-framed, coloured and sharp picture, Bert.
I just read your note update, you're right about TE addiction, I'm slowing down too... Btw, your new own picture is less serious than the former one ;-)