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Well, that thread got filled up quickly - so let's go for more !!

This is a continuing thread seeking YOUR ARTISTIC images: your Post-processed "Paintings", "Found Art" such as strange natural objects, picturesquely weathered paint, rocks, trees : You know, things you've seen that whisper: "this sure is Artistic !" or "That would look great on the wall!" -- you get the idea !

<<<<<<<<<<<<<--The more YOUR imagination is involved - The better !! -->>>>>>>>>>>>

Please post your image as a reply to THIS post, and change the title to a UNIQUE title for YOUR image, that way it's easy to tell what image others are commenting on.

It doesn't matter what equipment you use, Panasonic or otherwise - or a scanner - or a pinhole, or piece of photo paper in the sun. "Whatever"!



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Just in case you were wondering why I'd buy that strange but beautiful, leaky boat I posted on the last thread.

Here is a detailed drawing of a fully rigged Chinese "Junk" from about 100 years ago:



This boat - well, you can read the caption, but the city of "Ningpo" is now called "Ningbo", and is still on the coast of Fukien Province, China, opposite southern Taiwan.

This is from a very big, heavy book given to me by one of my customers, The United States Naval Institute, on the occasion of my leaving Annapolis. (That's the sane USNI which published it's first work of fiction about that time: Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October".

Too hard to scan from an oversize book, so this is from the back cover and I used this very similar illustration in lieu of an example of a "Foochow Pole Junk" a type of ship which used to carry pine logs for lumber up & down the coast. They operated VERY overloaded. From an old photograph from about 1920:



As it happens, while in the Navy, I had seen and got a picture of a derilict one of these ships:



Obviously old, This type of ship had been carrying logs up & down the coast for about 500 years - and now they are gone. So Im glad I saw an authentic one even in such bad shape.

You can see the construction is similar to tha boat I posted last time, and to these on a wharf in Keelung, Taiwan:



These guys sure built beautiful boats and ships.

So - I promise - no more boats, at least for a while.



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Thanks for a very interesting article, Erik.

Tom

a rain drop caught between some flower buds

Erik, Chinese junks were built with multiple watertight bulkheads which provided (1) considerable safeguard against flooding (2) the ability to easily separate different cargoes. This made them more capable of being heavily loaded without the risks which European designs implied.

The Titanic used similar watertight bulkhead construction, but its bulkheads only went partway up the hull, so when the damaged forward compartment flooded and the ship tilted down at the bow, water sequentially flooded the other compartments.

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That is very interesting Erik, thanks for sharing and I hope you break your promise!

Cyril Catt said:

Erik, Chinese junks were built with multiple watertight bulkheads which provided (1) considerable safeguard against flooding (2) the ability to easily separate different cargoes. This made them more capable of being heavily loaded without the risks which European designs implied.

The Titanic used similar watertight bulkhead construction, but its bulkheads only went partway up the hull, so when the damaged forward compartment flooded and the ship tilted down at the bow, water sequentially flooded the other compartments.

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OK, I'll break my promise, maybe just this once :-|

Yes, Cyril, Chinese ship/boat building was very advanced for a very long time, junks were built with watertight comparmentalization for at least 1,000 years. Water transport was very important and the "Grand Canal", called the "Beijing–Hangzhou" Canal - the world's longest, was begun in the year 605 by our reckoning and has been in use since then.

Over the centuries, specialized craft were developed to match the conditions of all of the important tributaries of the country's rivers. Here is an example. Salt was of course a valuable commodity, and they were DRILLING salt wells for many centuries, and using natural gas which came from some of the wells to evaporate the brine. This salt had to come down a rather treacherous river to reach the main river for sale, and a very unusual kind of boat was developed, called a "Crooked-Stern Junk":



Not a little "boat - you can see a man standing in the cabin.

In order to gain leverage for the large steering oars and keep the two oars from interfering, the stern of the boat was built wit a pronounced "Twist". The steersmen stood on that scaffold above the cabin. Two drawings from the book:



The sweeps pivoted on the "pins"on the high spot of the stern, and down at deck-level on the starboard ("right") side.

Naturally, over the years, different types appeared, with picturesque names"



The "sweeps" were tree-trunks usually lengthened by binding on more length, as seen above.

"Sweeps", or long,narrow 'oars' are a very common feature of this boat tradition, very often hung over the stern and "sculled" by a back & forth motion which drives the boat forward by the "wig-wag" motion of the oar - helped by a rope, (by the operator's right hand) as in this picture I got , also in Keelung,Taiwan in 1958:



I often wonder why the Venetian Gondolas don't use this system with the propelling oar astern, rather than sticking 'way out to starboard which make navigating narrow canals more difficult. The gondolas, incidentally, are also built with a "twist" which helps to counteract the strong tendency of that long oar to send the boat off-course to the port side (left) this innovation was introduced in the 1800's:



Cyril, you may well be interested in this book, which was written by a British officer G.R.G.Worcester, who was the official "River Inspector" of shipping in the whole Yangtze river in the 1920's & 30's. It is not available in your library, but is in the State Library of NSW and could probably be gotten on inter-library loan. It is a "Tome" - 636 pages, about 55mm thick and about 235x310mm in size, and is an amazing "read".



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DNSJR said:

a rain drop caught between some flower buds

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Nice little "lens" nestled in there !



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Seen on an exhibition from amateur artists...







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OH! MY !!







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Very interesting, thanks for sharing

DNSJR said:

a rain drop caught between some flower buds

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Good photo

Vidau said:

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Well done.

Obviously a Vidau original; there is a certain style....







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Dan W said:

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Beautiful and original composition, utilizing theTIPs of the tail, rather than the "yes" !!

Thanks !







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Thank you very much Erik

Dan W said:

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Very good photo, I like it

Thanks very much.

Dan