FISHING AT DAWN, a photo from Alicante, Valencia

Photographer's Note

It was August 1985 and I was serving as the cultural enrichment lecturer on board the Royal Viking Star, on a journey billed as the Wine Country Cruise. The ship left South Hampton, England, and visited a pair of ports on the Atlantic Coast of France. It also visited a pair of Portugese ports, sailed through the Straits of Gibraltar, and visited the ports of Alicante and Barcelona on the Mediterranean Coast of Spain.

With the RV-Sun in port overnight in Alicante, I was able to do an early morning photographic expedition. It was shortly before the fog had lifted completely that I came across the haunting site of the two fishermen. According to my ancient records, I photographed the fisherman with a fixed 135mm focal length lens, mounted on a Nikon-F camera body. The film I used was the highly dependable Kodachrome-64, known for its sharpness, color, and permanence. I scanned the slide for the purpose of posting on TE.

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maltese (22909) 2006-11-15 9:48

Hello Bulent
Superbe composition pour ce bateau et une fois de plus dans des tons presque monochrome
Bravo
Amicalement
Hervé

limaz (406) 2006-11-15 9:56

Hi Bulent.
This shot caught my eye because I inherited a copy of the boat that these guys are in:)
I like how the sky and ocean basically meld together withoout a seem.
I would suggest maybe cropping a little of the left side just to make them biased to that same side, but that's just being picky:)

TFS

Cato

xavshot (69835) 2006-11-15 10:06

Bonsoir Bulent
j'aime beaucoup l'ambiance de cette photo. Trčs belles teintes et un beau mélange pour passer du ciel ŕ la mer.
amicalement
Xavier

alkramer (0) 2006-11-15 16:48

Hallo Bulent;
Very artistic picture. Mistery and peacefullness is what it transmits me. Lovely colour blending together the sea and the sky. Well done
Regards
Alberto

yanm (1485) 2006-11-20 5:18

Hi Bulent,
You have a great gallery and I like this one. Also with the big moon.
I post a workshop to clean up the noise. I tempted to change the tonal into dark deep blue, but perhaps you wouldn't like it.

Yan

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kensimage (8563) 2006-12-10 11:40

Very nice, Bulent--I think what makes this work is the pose of the man on the right. It tells me that he is completely comfortable with being in such a boat--it is his way of life. The reflections on the water are nice, too. I do wish there was less digital noise in the sky.

I saw your intro page and then listened to part of an on-air interview with you on "Science Friday." I certainly admire the way your interests and expertise so merit the term "Renaissance Man." I am a mathematics professor with no professional expertise outside that area, but my hobbies tend strongly toward the aesthetic side--photography, of course, and a position as principal flutist of an amateur orchestra. So I am often asked informally about connections between mathematics and music, and occasionally, between mathematics and photography. I believe the main connection is pattern recognition. In music there is an underlying structure--gestures, phrases, colors, hesitations, notes that lead into other notes, etc.--that is not explicitly stated in the notation (and not in general uniquely determined) but that one must recognize if the playing is to have any emotional impact. In photography there are concepts like "leading the eye" and a need to be aware of general forms and structures in an image, not just the presence or absence of the subject matter in the frame. In mathematics the patterns are of course logical ones. The "recognition" aspect appears in the way a particular mathematical concept (at most any level) tends to appear either totally incomprehensible or natural and obvious, with a relatively short transition in our minds from the former to the latter.

Just some thoughts from an amateur! Regards, Ken.

amino (440) 2007-03-01 0:04

Thanks for sharing this photo. The journey of men. I like these reflective moods that make us accepting and comfortable with the reality of environment. There is much to explore and understand but only by slowly observing our relation to the surroudings.

Beautiful shot

metek (3001) 2007-08-06 11:46

Bülent bey merhaba

çok başarılı bir kadraj , yılına bakınca anlam dolu oldugu kesin... çok begendim ,
ellerinize sağlık
selamlar, saygılar

angelheart (475) 2007-10-25 8:35

This is a very nice and quiet place ,mistery and peacefullness it,s great
TFS Luci

Angshu (56760) 2007-12-13 19:55

Hello Professor "A"
An earlier post of yours and a fine one. The lack of colours IMO is an asset to this shot. The fog blurs the horizon beyond recognition. Like the reflections on the ripply waters in the FG & of course the two fishermen in their boat. Very nice indeed.
With Warmest Regards
Angshuman

kato (11630) 2012-02-25 13:27

Hello Bulent,

You're capturing well this fishing scene at dawn by a good composition and tasteful color tone, so it's impressive to see the spectacle that the sea and sky at dawn are an approximation color. Maybe, it seems that fog has hung on the sky. It's impressive in a boat with reflection as well as small surf, too.

Kind regards,
mikio