Painting 'Merger' at Glasson.

Painting 'Merger', originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

While wandering around Glasson Dock this week I came across the dredger 'Merger' being treated to a new coat of Ferrari red. The two crewmen painting her seemed happy enough for some daft bloke to take pictures of them, but I backed up some distance along the foreshore so that I could include the low tide lunar landscape in front of the quayside. I wasn't sure that the shot would turn out well, but when I saw it on screen I was surprised by how balanced and inviting it was. I am more often disappointed by shots that I have high hopes for, so this was something of a rarity.
I don't think it's a masterpiece, or even a particularly good photograph, but it's better than I expected.
And that isn't something that happens every day.