I have only about five kilometers to the harbor of Liznjan, the nearest village to my hometown. That harbor is a nice, quiet place that offers a photogenic scenery and interesting details hidden among the ordinary things.
That's also why I visit the place often; that's why I published quite a few posts about it in my almost five years on Hive and therefore I don't know how to call a post like this.
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I could have called this thing "Morning In The Harbor", "Misty Moments In The Bay", "Morning In The Bay Of Liznjan", or something similar. But I already used the three titles I mentioned in the previous sentence and the same applies to everything else that came to my mind when I started working on today's post.
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I exhausted all the titles when it comes to creating something about Liznjan's harbor, but there's always something new to show through photography. Each day is different, sometimes slightly - other times dramatically, and there is always some small, seemingly insignificant visual treat to discover.
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There was a bit of mist by the sea today, early in the morning. That's what triggered the photographer in me.
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I drove to Liznjan after buying some groceries in Medulin, the small seaside town where I live. The harbor was a welcomed change of scenery after a boring ramble among the shelves of the supermarket.
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It's no surprise that boats have a central place on the stage here in the harbor.
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I photographed quite a few of them today.
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This photograph shows the same scene as the previous one. The only difference is that I zoomed in a bit in this shot.
The alignment of boats shown in the following photograph ...
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... allowed me to create a neat diagonal composition.
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The piers in the part of the harbor that hosts small boats are all makeshift so each one is different. The unique feature of the small pier shown in this and the following photograph ...
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... is its disheveled front end that doesn't look like something I would step on unless it's absolutely necessary.
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Here you can see another makeshift pier. This one is a bit taller and considerably longer. Only one boat was tied to that pier. It was a lovely yellow boat ...
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... that looked a bit like a banana floating on the sea.
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This blue boat was photographed from an angle that made it look almost like a silhouette.
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Seen in the same light and from the same angle. the remains of old dismantled piers and their reflections in the calm water of the bay looked like fascinating abstractions.
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In this shot especially those things look like a work of abstract art.
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This building was once a factory that produced canned food from the vegetables grown in the large, fertile fields around the harbor.
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Nowadays the old factory houses the headquarters of local fishing and sports associations.
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Here you can see the friend who was there with me walking across the terrace behind the building.
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All the boats I presented earlier in the post were photographed from that terrace.
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In this tryptich, you can see a seagull resting on the top of one of those boats.
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Most of the factory's exterior still has its original red paint on. Only a minor part was recently painted white. Here you can see the borderline between the two.
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... I zoomed in to show you the old, rusted, and freshly painted blue lamp holders on the facade. I mean, I suppose these are lamp holders. Maybe I'm wrong.
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Here I zoomed in even more on the blue one on the white facade.
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This is the portrait of the old, rusted one on the grungy red facade.
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Here you can see the remains of an old pier made of stones ...
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... with a car tire at the end.
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The end of that pier is the end of today's post. As always here on Hive, the photographs are my work.