making-a-living, a photo from Leicestershire, England

Photographer's Note

This the 4th in the barges series and are the barges refered to in the painted buckets picture.
What you see are four cannal barges (narow boats) moored together, the man is standing in the stern (rear) of the living quarters barge pucking his future dinner of Pheasant. The others are used for his living of selling coal and wood see sign on roof of the left hand barge.These boat have been restored to perfect condition and are spotlessly clean and neat, I am sure I have seen a short Television artical on local news about him being one of the last of the true working bargee`s.
The path on the left when along side a cannal is called a tow path because up until the invention of steam power they were towed by a single horse plodding along.
Sorry about the bright orange fence but the people who run the cannals were doing some repair work to the path edge and it was supossed to stop people from falling in, just a bit unsightly and too much to remove to make the picture neater.
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richtersl (3546) 2004-01-16 17:24

That's a real shame about that orange fence. Unfortunately there's not much you can do about it or with it. If it weren't for that fence, the wheelbarrow, and the woman this could very well have been a scene out of the late 1800's. But it is this conflict that makes your photo so interesting to me.

Your note is informative. I find it fascinating that in your part of the world barges were run on "horse" power. The barges that used to run along the canal near where I live were run on "mule" power.

milloup (1829) 2004-01-16 19:05

As you yourself stated, it's quite a pity with the brightly orange fence, but nothing much to do about it apart from going back later to try again. The picture is very good with good DOF (I still wonder how you do it at the low F-stops you use ;-)). The colours of the paintings on the boats are fabulous.

Didi (61589) 2004-02-29 15:29

Very nice colours, the composition is very well framed.
I saw two similar British barges travelling in Briare Canal in France.
Thank's for sharing it's very interessant.

Photo Information

Copyright: Robert Brown (RobBrown) (1797)
Genre: Gente
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-01-01
Categories: Vida cotidiana
Camera: Sony DSC F707, Carl Zeiss 2.2-48.5
Exposición: f/3.2, 1/200 segundos
Versión de la foto: Versión original
Tema(s): Narrow boats / cannal barges, GB Canal narrow Boats [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2004-01-16 15:36