Have spent time in the sleeply north Florida town of Apalachicola for many, many years as my family has been coming there since the 1960’s. Much of this fishing-village town has fallen into disrepair, but there is still a little industry, mostly surrounding shrimp, oysters, or fish. With the development of St. George Island, the community of 2,300 has seen a small influx of tourist dollars and had created a nice little downtown with restaurants, a couple of hotels, and some nice shops. Nearby is a fairly active commercial marina where shrimp boats tie up.
The dock is fairly busy, but it’s not in the greatest shape. Many of the boats are not seaworthy, but many are, going out many days per week to fish shrimp. I talked to one guy in April and he said that there isn’t enough market for commercial shrimp to allow him to take out his big boat. He said that it’d catch too much shrimp for him to sell. Much of the previously strong, wider market for wild-caught shrimp has been eaten away by the farmed shrimp coming out of Southeast Asia or the Deep South USA.
I’ve been at this dock a number of times and if you keep coming back, you find neat portraits of old boats, infrastructure, and surrounding stuff. These are only a few of the photos.
The 7.5mm Laowa lens really does a great job, maybe not wide open, but stop it down to f/5.6 or f/8 and it’s a wonderful performer. I love the colors on this shot
Details of the divot and tie down. The areas around the boats have lovely details, especially when the light is soft and the shadows subdued.
I loved the geometry and irregular details of these meters that run to each boat slip’s power hookups.
A lone boat in this slip “numbered” BB. A nice study in black and white.
