Oh Buoy! by CoreyBlack
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It's amazing (not really) what aggravating old injuries, coupled with inconsistent access to the internet can do to the ability to add to your gallery. I was not intending to take nearly 2 weeks off on posting or get so behind on my comments, but then I also wasn't intending to step off of a curb wrong and screw up my already screwed up knee, or somehow throw out the shoulder I'd mangled in a bike accident in 1998. As someone once said (and I can't remember who it was) "If I realized I was going to be this old, I'd have taken better care of myself."
What you see here isn't technically a buoy; it's a navigational hazard marker...you try to come up with something witty that rhymes with "Navigational Hazard Marker." This particular navigational hazard marker is connected to the pier at Leone Beach in the Rogers Park area of Chicago, photographed at Lake Michigan, near Touhy Avenue in April of 2009
Comments (13)
whaleman
This is a classic view, and more interesting because of the proximity to Dana's upload with a similar perspective on a lighthouse (uploaded a few photos after yours). I always enjoy it when unrelated people by happenstance upload photos that seem to be related. Yours is well done too! Gotta watch them curbs! I know how you feel; to borrow a line from a Garth Brooks song, "I'm much too young to feel this damn old!"
beachzz
Oh boy, I just wish I'd thought of that title first!! This is a GREAT shot--but I'm so sorry to hear about your various sore spots. I have a knee that lets me know loud and clear when it's not happy.
durleybeachbum
They say middle age isn't for wimps! I've recently come to realise why earlier generations used to have 'complaints' rather than conditions or illnesses. There is something engagingly bleak about this pic, and I love the way you have placed everthing in the composition.
flavia49
excellent capture!!
jmb007
beau point de vue!!
Meisiekind
Oh dear Corey - I find myself everyday saying something like "growing old is not for sissys..."... Sorry about your injuries and that you didn't feel well! I had a good giggle about your struggle for a title!!! It is a lovely image with great depth!
sandra46
very interesting POV, i like the effect of the horizon and the verticality of the pier. I'm sorry for your helath ptoblems, but i'm getting old too, and i believ that one should love oneself even more than usual if we want to laugh in old age's face...
Miska7
Very nice scene and POV. Great shot!
Chipka
This has an odd intensity to it that I like quite a lot! It's a calm shot, with no tempestuous stuff going on in it, but still...there's a sense of the dramatic. I think it's in your POV and in the limited colors in the picture itself. At any rate, it's a brilliant piece of work that really makes striking impact! It's stark and a bleak--just the way I like stuff from time to time, and well...it definitely captures the not-exactly-warm nature of Lake Michigan in the spring. I like this a lot!
auntietk
The navigational hazard marker Helps you see when it gets darker It lights the way of Nosy Parker And noisy puppies known as barkers You're right ... it's not easy! LOL!
myrrhluz
I'm very sorry to hear about your fall. It's amazing the long memories that knees have. My sister's remember a less than sober night on the shoulders of a guy wearing roller skates. It when downhill fast from there. Mine remember jumping off a wall onto a slope, avoiding a guy with his arms out, and landing ignominiously at his feet after bending in a rather novel way. Excellent simplicity of shapes, cool gray and blue of the ocean and concrete, and red of the posts and marker. I like that they recede in the distance to a standing figure, very considerately wearing black and the hints of red on the posts leading down to the larger area of red at the end. Great image and title!
KatesFriend
Well, I'm very sorry you got hurt. Not familiar with knee injuries, though I do suffer from kidney stones. Equally chronic and worse than labour - so my mother tells me. It's a lovely shot though. A nice tranquil mixing of blue and gray colours. I've never seen such markers at my end of the Great Lakes. Though our navigation rules are rather different.
kgb224
It is certainly a problem when one had injuries in ones younger days.One does feel it when you get older.