Barcelona, a photo a day

Working


We forget easily that Barcelona is still a working fishing port. Here is one of the rare remaining working boats.

This entry was posted on February 12, 2012 by . It was filed under boats, hdr, photography, port, RAW photos .

4 responses

  1. VP

    Nice picture, Fishing boats are quite common here too and not too different…

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    February 13, 2012 at 7:33 pm

  2. PerthDailyPhoto

    Gorgeous shot Rob, love the white and blue, nice reflections also. Looks like a very hard working vessel!

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    February 13, 2012 at 12:58 pm

  3. Cezar and Léia

    So beautiful picture and I'm enchanted by your header! 🙂
    Léia

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    February 13, 2012 at 8:42 am

  4. Louis la Vache

    Interesting…
    «Louis» just “assumed” that Barcelona is still a busy and active port, including for fishing. That it isn't is similar to San Francisco. There are very few remaining working fishing boats in San Francisco. During the 60s and 70s, the very militant Longshoremens Union drove the shipping lines across the bay to Oakland – so now the port of San Francisco has almost no shipping business while Oakland has boomed. Radical “environmentalists” have made it difficult and expensive for cruise ships to stop in San Francisco, so it is now a “big deal” if a cruise ship calls on the city. All of this has cost businesses and restaurants in San Francisco a fortune in lost revenues.

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    February 13, 2012 at 2:13 am