on 2012-01-24 00:36 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote
I took the M9 up to Alameda for a photo walk at the USS Hornet on Sunday. It
was really the wrong camera for the task, but I wanted to get to know it better
and push myself a bit.
Quickie output ... thirty five photos in this set:
http://gallery.me.com/godders#100435
this is very real; the details, for one who has some sense of the convoluted
systems on these ships, are very suggestive of the whole (i could do without
the people-shots, the airplanes, and the vignettes)
just read a bit about the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet, and a few
months ago read an eye-opening (for a baby-boomer at least) book on the battle
of Guadalcanal; i think warships, and how their little systems worked, are
perhaps the perfect expression of the 20th century machine age; looking at
controls and gauges, etc., one is forced to imagine the physical reality of the
people who operated them
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