“Shrimp is the Fruit of the Sea”
After a long night's search for those delectable crustations, a shrimp boat's nets dry in the hot afternoon sun... and etch their shadow into the trawler's white deck. Anyway, like I…
Family of Fisherfolk
A Fisherman’s Life – Halong Bay, Vietnam
A family makes their way through fog and mist to their favored fishing spot in the vast Halong Bay in northeastern Vietnam. They set their nets at dusk, fishing all night, and…
Misty Morning Daysailers
A pair of catboats resting easy on a calm, foggy morning. A small sailing craft is not only beautiful, it is seductive and full of strange promise and the hint of trouble.…
The Waterman’s Life
Pine Island, Florida. Commercial mullet fishermen’s boats in the late afternoon sun. The running of the mullet has begun, as the fish are beginning to school up to head out…
Shrimpers – a Dying Way of Life Photo Essay
Not too far from my home exists a small rag-tag fleet of shrimp boats. It saddens me to see these once proud trawlers fall into disrepair as they diminish in number.…
Sail Away
Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Escape
Thinking about Escape. Am I wanting to escape from something, or do I want to escape to someplace, or am I contemplating the act of escape? The Tropic Theater, Key West,…
Sailboat and Sunrise
A dead calm at sunrise on San Carlos Bay. Come sail away with me. I have watched this ketch tug restlessly at her anchor for years. Though her sails…
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