Winter – Kingston Harbour
Dock by the Delta Hotel – Kingston
Confederation Basin, Kingston – early Spring
Eagle Lake dock
Cousins on the dock – Ontario cottage country
Wolfe Island dock
Three minutes from my home – Kingston harbour
One of my favourite docks to photograph is on Longboat Key Florida. I have been going there for over 30 years to vacation and this dock always draws my eye and my camera.
A Facebook friend recently posted a visually striking black and white photo of a man on a pier and it reminded me just how drawn I am to photographing docks and piers and breakwaters. I think it is the idea that the dock leads somewhere and the somewhere is often an expansive body of water. The boats at the docks are transport for adventure into the ocean or lake. There is something solitary about many of these images at the same time. Perhaps we are dwarfed by Nature.
It spurred me to look through my photo library for pictures of docks and piers that I have taken in many parts of the world. I have so many that I have to divide this into three parts. I hope you enjoy this maritime travelogue.
Fishing Boat in the harbour at Tofino, British Columbia
The pier near Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia
On a pier in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
A sort-of pier in Cinque Terra, Italy. You would not want to get caught up in the waves near the rocks.
Dhows in Stone Town, Zanzibar
A dock I have visited many times in Mbita, Kenya – Lake Victoria
Dubrovnik, Croatia
San Francisco Bay, California. Golden Gate Bridge way in the background
On the pier/breakwater in the photo above – Lima, Peru. It was amazing how this very natural Pacific Ocean site was in a city of 8.5 million people.
A memorable fish dinner on a dock on the island of Lopud, Croatia with friends Sue and Jim.
A visit to Newfoundland has been on my list of things to do – not really a bucket list since I may just do it more than once before I kick – and with the Canadian dollar in the doldrums this year I thought it was time. Although the weather in early June was chilly and wet and foggy, I had a very wonderful atmospheric holiday, seeing puffins, whales, icebergs and my friends Glenda and Marshall Godwin, all natural Newfie phenomena.
Here are just a few of my photos.
Cape Spear Lighthouse
Fishing village
Spectacular iceberg near Dunfield
I was not deterred by the frequent drizzle and fog
Humpback whale
Puffins
Signal Hill, St John’s
View from Signal Hill
Visiting friends was a treat
Yesterday I posted some spring photos. Several of the pictures I took had interesting reflection in the smooth lake so I have grouped them together here. Part 2. You can see yesterday’s other photos here if you missed them. It delights me that I have been able to take all these photos within about 10 minutes of my home in beautiful downtown Kingston, Ontario.
Exactly three weeks ago I posted a blog with some photos I took along the shoreline of Lake Ontario in Kingston. (You can see them here) The lake was still covered in ice – enough, in fact, that people were out playing hockey and walking and ice-boating on the lake.
Today is Easter Sunday – March 27. It is a gorgeous sunny day. The ice is gone from all but a few corners of the lake. Folks are out with their kids and their dogs and cameras and even a couple of boats are in the water. What a difference three weeks makes.
Here are some photos I took today, some of them from precisely where I took pictures of the ice on March 6. I am happy today to be celebrating spring in Kingston.
No need to explain any of these photos of some of the wildlife we saw on game drives in the Maasai Mara.
The long weekend at the first of August had perfect summery weather here in Kingston although it seems that some of Ontario experienced severe thunderstorms. I spent a few hours yesterday by the lake taking about 300 photos of folks enjoying the day. I won’t drop them all on you but hope this few gives you a taste of the day.
I have been a bit lazy about blogging over the summer. Outdoors. On the move. Every once in a while, pulled out my phone to grab a photo. So since a picture is worth 1000 words, here are a few thousand to illustrate the sultry weekend we have had in Kingston, Canada. Summer doesn’t last long enough!
It is a calm, almost balmy, May evening on the waterfront in Kingston. Folks are strolling and absorbing the warmth and the quiet.
As I walk along, I am troubled, however, thinking of the young man, a stranger to me, who chose to end his life this week by throwing himself from the 17th floor of the apartment building where I live. I grieve for him and for his family. As I soak up the beautiy of this early summer night, I am saddened that this fellow, a boy really, must have felt such overwhelming turmoil and despair and that he will never again experience this peacefulness.
It is heartbreaking.
johnageddes 