Try-Pot Sunset Details

I have previously posted about the sunset from Rose Harbour – originally in Rose Harbour Sunset and a few days ago in Try-Pot Sunset.

The latter post has more information about the whaling station at Rose Harbour. I saved these details aside from that post because they seem different, the feel and topic seems to stand on its own from the first post.  I hope you agree. It would be nice to extract some beauty from these two tanks that between them rendered oil from the carcasses of more than 5,000 whales.

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For an interior view of the try-pots, and pictures of other rusty equipment lying around Rose Harbour, see the post of Tansy inspecting it at the  Quimper Hittys post called Whaling Station.

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This link catalogues my posts about volunteering on the Kilgii Gwaay archaeological site project.

Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, Nikkor-N 24mm/f2.8 lens. ISO1250 for more distant fern shadow shot (I had just come out of the forest), ISO200 for the others, The EXIF data in the gallery view shows incorrect aperture for the Nikkor lens as the camera cannot record it for adapted manual lenses.

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13 thoughts on “Try-Pot Sunset Details”

  1. No WAY I can pick a favorite from this set!! No way! Wow, this is really astonishing work here, Ehpem. I love how you’ve dedicated this post just to this subject. Very dramatic subject material here, and the details and textures in the rusty pots are beyond description! I love, love, love the shadows and the feel that they bring to this set, and all the little gardens springing forth from the decay and rust really produces a lovely dichotomy! Really wonderful work, my friend!

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    • You are making me smile with these comments. I have favourites – my top three are the two with fern shadows and the rivets along a seam, and also, I guess this is four, the one with the big curving shadow over it. I expect my preferences will change.

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    • Thanks Lynn! The details are amazing, even though the whole objects are too. Did you notice the small bit of moss clinging under that bracket? Moss is everywhere up there, absolutely everywhere. I could have shot 1,000 completely different moss shots if I had not been distracted by so many other things.

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    • I liked the rivets too, but found them very hard to photograph. My technical knowledge was stretched, or my control of the camera more like it. The rivets along the seam picture with the decreasing points of light on the tips of the rivets was not a big success compared to what I was aiming for, but I have not tried any heavy duty processing on it yet, and think it might be interesting in b&w, all contrasty.

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  4. The colours are better in these close-ups. The previous series were more pinkish but this is the real Fe2O3 look, albeit with interesting local variations and of course added texture. Its nice that these wonderful colours can emerge from industrial waste. The fern leaves and shadows add a poetic touch, one could look at them all day..

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    • Hi Val. The sunset light on them adds to the colour in ways that should be more compatible with rust than many other subjects. I took these photos at two different times, separated by an hour, and that makes a difference between the shots too, though both posts have images from both times. The shadows on that surface are amazing, and they work well in black and white too, and maybe some time I will post a b&w series of these try-pots.

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