Savannah 2023 part one
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Ah, spring trippin'.
Sort of a twist for us, in that we flew rather than drove. It's been some time since last we went all wheels up. And with our miles, we went first class. Don't worry, we're back to coach on the return to MI.
Attitude can last only so long.
First night here, with temps in the low 80s, I went on a photo walkabout. From our hotel near the western edge of the historic district, I grabbed my 28mm lens headed for a little street photography:
Haha, my little joke... while crossing the street I inadvertently hit the shutter - three times. This is the best one of the "street" shots.
I didn't discover the error until opening the memory card back at the hotel. "What the hell is that?" I mused until it dawned on me. Photographer humor. Sort of.
Anyway, to right my wrong, I had to take an actual, planned shot:
The famed cobblestone walkways of Savannah... the stones were ship ballast for the trip over, then unloaded to bring New World manna back to Europe - England, to be precise. We recently heard a story about someone discovering odd markings on a stone which turned out to be Chinese characters. No good explanation of a translation, but appearing to be a name and a date.
Next up, live oak. I had to take the classic shot, perhaps hackneyed, but amazing to look at, for me. We had had no sun, just flat light, until after 6pm when I came into the district, which allowed me to take this shot:
This tree is one of many - every square in town has at least four, and there are 28 squares (I think), and then there are the plantings on residential plots... so, many treees. The light fell just right for this trunk to shine, so to speak. A guy I took a class from some time ago said you don't take photos of stuff, you shoot how light falls on stuff. Case in point.
And, you never know what you might see in downtown Savannah, along Bay Street or down along River Street, but sometimes you will be surprised:
Um, yes, that's a an oceangoing container ship. Turns out Savannah is one of the largest ports in the country. As with many other ordinal lists, it depends on what you're counting, so I'll leave it to the container shipping blogs to tell the tale:
Port of Savannah
The Port of Savannah and the Port of
Brunswick come together to form Georgia’s chief shipping ports. If you
have any shipments to be sent out to Georgia, then this port is the way
to go. There are two terminals here: the Ocean City terminal and the
Garden City terminal. The Port of Savannah moved 5.7 million TEUs,
growing cargo volumes by 8% in 2022, or 432,000 additional TEUs compared
to 2021. If this growth continues, the port will surpass the Port of
Long Beach as well as the Port of New Jersey and New York.
source: https://www.container-xchange.com/blog/busiest-ports-in-the-us/
The part of this I like the best is the rooftop bars which allow you to see the ships up close. Yes there's an app for timing your visit to actually see a ship, although I suspect there's been a wee bit o' consumption with no boats in sight. Sadly, it turned chilly on us, and we never did a rooftop soiree. Have to go back!!!
As to street photography, as I was taking the boat pics I noticed the line outside the burger shop, directly behind me, and thought, "hey, that's true street stuff!!"
I took too long to do my camera settings, and they saw me. Dammit!!!
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