Comments | byronicman: More fishing photos

byronicman

More fishing photos

Dec 08, 2005 20:40

Back when I was a commercial fisherman. More found and scanned photos.

The Oakland shipyards as we cruse the bay looking for herring on La Dolce Vita. Those cranes in the shipyard inspired George Lucas to build the "walker" machines in the Star Wars movies.

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mooflyfoof December 9 2005, 06:59:26 UTC

Wow... These are incredible. Thank you for sharing them! What a life that must've been.

byronicman December 9 2005, 16:12:21 UTC

The big plus was the fishing captains were all those old crusty Italian dudes from Monterery, you know the ones. They were all in their 70s and still crazy as hell.
At night we would go out to the Italian bars by pier 41or whatever pier that was by the fisherman's wharf and close down the bars.

mooflyfoof December 9 2005, 17:08:20 UTC

Yep, I know 'em. I went to school with their grandkids. That's awesome.

not sure you remember this but hiroprotagonist December 9 2005, 15:07:13 UTC

what camera was used for these pics?

Re: not sure you remember this but byronicman December 9 2005, 16:04:15 UTC

I'm pretty sure they were Fuji disposables, those throwaway cameras in the green and white Fuji film packaging. Scanning the prints really enhanced the saturation :D

babystrange December 9 2005, 19:16:10 UTC

you are one of the raddest/ weirdest/ most interesting dudes i've ever met, byro. i loves ya.

babystrange December 9 2005, 20:42:40 UTC

The best part is...
I have amazing friends like YOU!!!!!
I am very lucky ;D

byronicman December 9 2005, 20:43:45 UTC

BTW that was ME

The best part is...
I have amazing friends like YOU!!!!!
I am very lucky ;D

memoryofpetals December 11 2005, 20:14:57 UTC

I love these! I need to get some sort of strange job for awhile. Teaching English in Japan is pretty good, but maybe I should cut off fish heads in Alaska.