by elizabeth evans

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January 6, 2006

In the Shadow of "Goliath" ~ The Fore River Shipyard

January 12, 2008 10:02 AM UTC

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In the Shadow of Goliath

Geometric designs

of angles and lines

in weathered patina

define a space

on the river Fore.

The image

Under an open sky

Massive steel structures

Bow down to Goliath

Ghosts of the past.

Goliath standing,

an ethereal intermediary

With huge cables and pulleys

Created the machinery

For the Winds of War.

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Comments: 61

Cheryl W. Jan 12, 2008, 10:03am UTC

Wonderful photo essay!

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JoAnne D. Jan 12, 2008, 10:10am UTC

Great shots. Thanks for the essay, the pictures are excellent.

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Laurun M. Jan 12, 2008, 10:15am UTC

Where on earth are you, Bob? Definite pictures of fortitude. I, of course, especially like the milkweed pod picture. They look like two birds at first glimpse.

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Fred Hose Jan 12, 2008, 10:20am UTC

Hi Bob
You photography is blue ribbon stuff. Superb.
The scenes seemed to be steeped in nostalgia. Especially for me...as I'm an engineer and I worked as a seaman on a cargo boat for 6 weeks from Durban to Hamburg.

I could almost smell the sea water.
Who was that in shot 14 or thereabouts?

We traveled around Vermont and then to Martha's Vineyard years ago. Did we pass somewhere near you?

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Marilyn (PaintsOnSlate) S. Jan 12, 2008, 10:35am UTC

Thank you for posting this to Best Original Photos, Art, Video and writing for 2008

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 10:38am UTC

Thanks Cheryl and JoAnne for stopping by.

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 10:41am UTC

Laurun, I was up at the Fore River Shipyard in East Braintree/Quincy rambling around. I did another photo essay the other day on the yard but more from a naturalist point of view. This one was suppose to be from a more geometric functional observation...but yes, the milk weed did creep in!

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 10:41am UTC

Guyana Marilyn.

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 10:45am UTC

Fred....all the shadow shots (#1, #4, and #12) of myself I took.....but my sister Fran took the two pictures of me (#14 and #17).

I'm in Massachusetts, close to Cape Cod so you probably passed within 7 miles of me on the way to Martha's Vineyard.

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J W. Jan 12, 2008, 11:10am UTC

good photo essay

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Curt L. Jan 12, 2008, 11:13am UTC

A brilliant photo essay, Elizabeth! 10!

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 11:45am UTC

Thanks J Wright for stopping by.

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Tonia, who hugs trees G. Jan 12, 2008, 11:51am UTC

Bob - this is fascinating to me - I don't know how many hundreds of times I've driven past the ship yard and never stopped to take a closer look.

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 11:55am UTC

Thanks Curt for your kind words. Brilliant, I don't know....but I do try.

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 11:58am UTC

Tonia, I don't know how many times I thought about you last Tuesday while roaming around this place wishing you were with me. In the beginning I was shooting my kind of shots....nature encroaching on man"....then I started thinking about your "Bridge" article and started thinking "shapes, lines, verticals........"! Fun exercise. Did you see the article I posted on Thursday?

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Chelsea R. Jan 12, 2008, 2:05pm UTC

those are all wonderful!

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Sonia M. Jan 12, 2008, 2:47pm UTC

Masterful! Great shots and poem, Bob.....I love the second one, looking up the ladder and....all the ones taken looking straight up..... also the ones with your shadow.... and......... well, actually, all of them!

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Nancy S. Jan 12, 2008, 3:12pm UTC

Great photos Bob. Doesn't take long for nature to take over.

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Pamela L. Jan 12, 2008, 3:48pm UTC

I find it deliciously whimsical to find "you" (your shadow) in so many of your photos. It is so Hitchcockesque.

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lynn a. Jan 12, 2008, 4:00pm UTC

No matter what you photograph, you always manage to show something huge in it. You had one photo of a hole and the blue dots in it actually looked like eyes, giving a "face" to it. I looked more and the blue spec was present in different places round the entire circle. I think your shadow should or really truthfully is becoming your trademark.

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Barbary C. Jan 12, 2008, 4:14pm UTC

I love visiting old shipyards, but they make me a little nervous -
something about the unknown past deeds there.

You've suberbly conveyed the massive structuring, Bob.
Great photo work and ambience.

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Wilma M. Jan 12, 2008, 4:45pm UTC

What a fabulous photo essay! You are becoming quite the photographer, Bob.

Very interesting study!

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 4:50pm UTC

Chelsea and Lyla, Was out and about most of the day....just popping into Gather between errands. Yes, Saturday for me is Errand Day, Walks with Tucks, laundry day, etc. Try to get everything done today so I can play tomorrow. Hoping it will be another gorgeous day so I can go to Scituate.

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 4:53pm UTC

Sonia, I think I'm in a shadow mode...seems like recently I've been shooting my shadow...maybe it's because the sun is shining and I'm just so happy to be outside with the sun on my back!!!

Thanks for your kind words about ALL my photos.

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 4:56pm UTC

Nancy, it doesn't take long at all. Nature is just incredible....now you can understand how only a few years in the rainforest it takes to revert back to the natural.

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 5:07pm UTC

Pamela...at first I didn't understand your reference to Hitchcock...but then a thought occurred to me on the porch just now (Yes, Mr. Evans makes me smoke on the porch. Actually it's good because I have to leave the computer and so it gives me a chance to ponder what someone has said.) that when I went to the Tarot card reader she said I'm a very old soul that has come back many, many times. So, perhaps, sub-consciously I am allowing "past" lives a chance to have an adventure with me! Lol!

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Magi the magical poet is flowing with the wind Jan 12, 2008, 5:47pm UTC

Another excellent photo essay by the master of this genre!

I love pottering in historic places like this, Bob. Some of these shots mad me feel giddy...did you go climbing high up the flight of stairs, as well?

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 6:08pm UTC

Lynne.....taking pictures just seem to come natural to me. I'm reading a book now that Will gave me about the two different schools of thoughts concerning the making of a photographer. One school believes you need to be trained and the other feels that "seeing" comes from within and just needs the opportunity to be released. Am going to reread the chapter...some pretty well known photographers weigh in on both sides. Might write an article about it.

As for the shadow...notice in the Scituate pictures i took the other day once more old mister shadow made his appearance.

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Ina ♥ ♥ Jan 12, 2008, 6:14pm UTC

This entire essay is breath taking. The second picture just GRABBED me. Since I didn't read the other comments, I'm sure others have said the same thing. I really loved this.

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 6:35pm UTC

Being a sailor, I find it hard to believe that you would have thesefeelings about shipyards, Barbary. I have found them fascinating for as long as I can remember. Perhaps because I heard about them from Dad and my Uncles and Aunts. I do know that when I was in Alaska I spent hours in Seward roaming around old boats in a defunct shipyard....then of course in Maine, I'm always checking out old yards....though I haven't got in to the Bath Works yet. Then of course Mystic, Conn. has a yard where if you are really quiet, you can hear sea chanties. Maybe I am a sea nymph!

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 6:38pm UTC

Thanks Wilma for the kind words. They actually make me blush...as yet I don't think of myself as being a photographer....I'm not one for a lot of gadgets, lenses, etc. I just have a simple camera...one that I didn't really have to read the directions for. It's all hit or miss!

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 6:44pm UTC

I'm laughing, magi...."master of this genre"....but I'm smiling inside. I'm glad that you love pottering around in historic places because come next summer, God willing, you will be.

And yes, you know I can't see a path, a trail or stairs going up or down without exploring what's beyond. I so wanted to figure out how I could get to the top of Goliath but everything was locked up tight.

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elizabeth evans Jan 12, 2008, 6:47pm UTC

Ina, those stairs were just enchanting....climbing them I felt like I was Maria in Westside Story! Imagine Maria dancing with water on the knee and a brace to boot. The brace came off today and once again my leg is working! Yahoo!

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Bridget M. Jan 12, 2008, 11:04pm UTC

When are you putting these on display??? I think the coffee shop idea is great, I know the library has been featuring artists also. It is time to let the world other than gather to peek at you amazing photos! Thanks as always for sharing, I feel so privelged.

Now you mentioned doing errands today, when are you resting that knee????

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elizabeth evans Jan 13, 2008, 5:46am UTC

Marianne, you are making me blush. I haven't even had my coffee this morning and I come down here, turn on the computer and what do I find but your kind words. Thank you ever so much for viewing my labors.

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elizabeth evans Jan 13, 2008, 5:53am UTC

Bridget, you are too kind. In order for me to put them on display I would have to learn how to matte and frame them. That would require shopping....and I have a hard time with going near any store. LOL! Perhaps I should talk to Fran and she could buy the supplies and then we all could have a "Framing Party"....wouldn't that be fun?

As for the leg. The brace came off yesterday morn...had another MRI and every thing looks good. Set myself up at the computer with the leg up yesterday....took a long bath with apsom salts....and I'm as good as new.

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Carolyn Madden Jan 13, 2008, 7:25am UTC

Bridget is funny.. as if you'd actually rest, ever.

I dont know now if I like this one even better than the other.. but I do know it's another tremendous article. And the shadow shots are becoming even more wonderful, that first one is pure magic.

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elizabeth evans Jan 13, 2008, 9:51am UTC

Judi, would that the machinery and weapons of war were just "artistic pieces" hanging in galleries for all to see.

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elizabeth evans Jan 13, 2008, 9:53am UTC

Carolyn....really into shadows right now...don't know why. And hey, the whip is cracking, 4 more weeks till VD.

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John F Walter Jan 13, 2008, 11:52am UTC

I see what you mean when you mentioned the emphasis on fascinating industrial shapes on the skype phone today, Bob. Just superb photography all around. I especially like the shots looking straight upward into concentric shapes.

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Kathryn Flynn Jan 13, 2008, 12:01pm UTC

You do an incredible job with photography. Do you have professional experience? Wow.

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Mariana T. Jan 13, 2008, 2:05pm UTC

Bob - fabulous photo essay and each one of these images stands on it's own and lives in its own poetry - and blends so well with your own lovely poetic descriptions - incredible shots - love the look on the guy's face and the way you've captured the machinery in an abstract artsy fashion - great angles - absolutely totally Bob! Thanks so much - you're one in a million! SAlud.

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elizabeth evans Jan 13, 2008, 6:25pm UTC

Thanks, John. It was an old aluminum cone we found in one of the buildings....dragging it outside, we started experimenting with it. It was kind of interesting how it framed some of the bigger equipment.

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elizabeth evans Jan 13, 2008, 6:30pm UTC

Kathryn, not one iota of professional experience....everything I do in photography has come at a hit or miss moment. Some people say I have a "good eye" for composition. My sister Fran says "I see differently then most people". Will did give me two books for Christmas and I have been reading chapters in them...but then I get out on a shoot and I just start "seeing". I don't mind getting on the ground, up in a tree or climbing fire escapes.....what ever it takes to capture the essence of the place.*

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elizabeth evans Jan 13, 2008, 6:31pm UTC

Thanks, Lyla....loved your Seattle article.

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elizabeth evans Jan 13, 2008, 6:32pm UTC

What guy Mariana....that was me!

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elizabeth evans Jan 14, 2008, 4:11am UTC

Ivy, I knew not of Margaret Bourke-White and so I googled her to find out who she might be and was surprised to learn that she was a renowned pioneer in photo-journalism. As an industrial photographer, her images were brutally stark. She found a certain truth in her subject and was able to capture it. Thank you Ivy, for comparing my work to hers. I bow to you, not only for the compliment but for leading me to Margaret.

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