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Bluejay
@bluejay@ohai.social
2 mesi fa

Gowanus, 1.

“And what is that you smell? Oh, that!... It is the old Gowanus Canal, and that aroma you speak of is nothing but the huge symphonic stin

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Gowanus, 1.

“And what is that you smell? Oh, that!... It is the old Gowanus Canal, and that aroma you speak of is nothing but the huge symphonic stink of it, cunningly compacted of unnumbered separate putrefactions.”
— Thomas Wolfe, “You Can't Go Home Again,” 1940

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(For @MephitisTouch@pixelfed.social 👀)

A view of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal as seen from behind the rusted railing of a pedestrian overpass. The canal recedes from camera and curves to the right, surrounded by an industrial landscape of buildings and bridges under a blue sky with clouds. Its famously toxic water is a sickly green, divided into two channels by floating barges of dredging equipment — part of the effort to clean up the canal by scooping out the “black mayonnaise” at its bottom (a sludge of “oil, coal, pesticides, rotting debris, raw sewage, chemicals, and heavy metals, which includes arsenic, benzene, chromium, mercury, and lead,” according to Gothamist). More lovely details from Gothamist: “The canal’s waters are tainted by millions of gallons of sewage every year, which, in the 1970s, led to it being contaminated with typhoid, cholera and tuberculosis. In more recent years, it has been diagnosed with gonorrhea. The canal’s coastline has been poisoned by a century of industrial use, including chemical factorie

#photography #nyc #brooklyn #urbanlandscape #canal #waterwednesday #gowanuscanal

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Merivell
@NorthOfSomewhere@pixelfed.social
2 mesi fa

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#photography #seascape #sea #meermittwoch #sailing #sailboat #goldenhour #eveninglight #seascapephotography #waterwednesday #minimalphotography #oceanview #maritimephotography #calmsea #sailingyacht

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