Porthole

Great shot - gives the feeling of being trapped underwater.

now why did you have to go and say that?

Good point. Thats wasn't the best combination of sentences, was it? 8`-)

OK, what I meant was that I got two different thoughts/feelings from looking at this photo. First was that the picture was incredibly impressive in the way it was put together - the colors, the centering, the look and feel of the slowly eroding iron and the murky water juxtaposed against the blue sky. Second was a claustrophobic feeling of being trapped and slowly sucked under water, which is something that scares the bejesus out of me when I think about it (which I try not to do very often <G>), and it is amazing that a simple photo could elicit all of this at once.

That better? :-)

Lynne,
Yes and no.... lol This is a very powerful picture. And yes, it immediately gave me the feeling of being sucked underwater, trapped in a ship that is sinking with no way out. I'm reminded here of an old movie called - The Last Voyage - which scared the heck out of me. I have no claustrophobic issues, but I do have major drowning fears.
Damn Motts... you certainly have an amazing ability to stir emotional reactions with your photography.

I scuba dive...alot...and have been to a few shipwrecks; however, they have all been in pretty clear water, the deepest being around 100 ft. Our dive instructors said death by drowning is actually quite pleasant...the human body won't allow you to breath underwater, therefore you pass out, while you are passed out you start to breath in your sleep and the water fills your lungs and that drowns you, but you never know...Now, how my instructors knew this, I'll never know, but I love being underwater and I promise if I ever get stuck down there and do drown, I'll come back somehow and let you know whether we should really be afraid or not...

Thank you for the boats Motts, although I like all your photographs...so...yeah...okay. Needless to say I wouldn't scuba here...

These conversations really hit home....as a near drowning victim (twice), I concur with Ragdoll. The experts are correct about the sensation. Fortunately, I never developed a fear of the water, but I am claustrophobic. So, this photograph does creep me out a tad!!!

Twug stay the heck out of the water, will ya?!?

I'll never learn!!

At least, Twug, don't go in wave pools where people in double intertubes are floating about. Not fun to mistime a jump over the wave, and then try to get back up but discover you can't because two people in a large intertube are floating above you! To quote Dane Cook "How dare you float above me while I am drowning in the abyss!!!"

Barbara expressed my feelings exactly with the Dane Cook Quote!!

half empty? or half full?

it looks as if it is a face!

Sorry, Barbara, I just picked up your comment. Thanks for the advice. Love the quote. It's absolutely perfect. Your comments elicit the thought of being stuck under the ice of a frozen lake. Fortunately that has never happened to me as I am not a winter person. So, I think I am safe there.

Ahh, good yes stay off of frozen lakes...and be sure you are the one in the double intertube if you go in a wave pool! But you gotta hear the whole Dane Cook quote, he's great.

Hey, Barbara, I will check out Dane Cook. Is he the comic that I just pulled up on the 'net? Or do I have the wrong person? I like innertubes. We were constantly on one on Lake Erie as children.

I would assume so. He's very eccentric, its best if you can catch him on TV, but definitely check him out! : )

And now back to this picture that really reminds of the Titanic and how the people must have felt...

ME GUSTAN TUS FOTOS, POR QUE NOS LLAMARÁ TANTO LA ATENCIÓN ESTAS COSAS?

Alta Vista Translation:
I LIKE YOUR PHOTOS, SO THAT THE ATTENTION WILL CALL SO MUCH TO US THESE THINGS

Part of the translation is right..."I like your photos, why don't you talk about the attention of these things." Some of it gets gobbled up with the on-line literal translations, but I think palmeradatilera was referring to the side conversations going on and that there were not more comments on the photo itself.

Hi you all! I study in the Estonian Maritime Academy to become an officer of the ship....this picture gives me some second thoughts, damn it! :)

There will be nobody home..........

(muffled) *tap*tap*tap* Could somebody open the door and let us out? Please? Somebody? Anybody? We can't open the door, and the boat is sinking...

Oohhhh, gives me a shivery case of the booboo-jeebies every time I look at it!

It is a door that leads in to something: Not letting me out of a sinking ship, but into something disturbing, that is behind it. I would not like to open it.

Go on open it..you know you want to!

You won't be happy till you know whats inside......

yo who ever shot that pic just caaptuer it all ...makes me thik of pearl harbour

Beautiful shot. It conveys so much emotion...You are very talented, Motts!

Liam, stop talking about my sister in law!

Gives the impression of what it might have been like standing on the deck of the Titanic, of the Lusitania, or some similar ship.

*ThudThudThud*TapTapTap*ThudThudThud*

let us out...

please?...

Seems very dangerous. It's not like on land where you can think yourself out of a collapse/failure situation. Something goes wrong on one of those boats and you my friend, are fucked.

You see, people? I brought the topic up over a year ago, but Night done put it FAR more eloquently than I EVER could have! Leave them boats alone, peoples; there's monsters in them thar waters! =8-o

If you look very closely at the bottom of the porthole, just where the water covers the glass it looks like the mandible part of a human jaw there, and a part of a webbed hand too.

Gives me a "Sinking" feeling. Har har har.

Sorry. Just had to say the cheesy phrase that was on my mind.

Lynne n Silkster- Lemme guess: you wouldn't watch Poseidon if we paid ya. BTW, that original screenplay/novel was based on the author's impression of how badly the original Queen Mary rolled in heavy seas.

Night: my claustrophobic panic would result from being in a submarine unable to surface.
Twug, in the case of drowning, I would hope to black out quick and not spend minutes prior fighting for air...or does that only happen from suffrocation due to something held over someone's face?
Wave pools? Yeah, I momentarily bumped my head on an inner tube trying to come back up at the Denver water park.

looks like there's a monster looking out the porthole

I served in the Army and the only ships that I was ever on were Riverines ( river patrol boats used in Vietnam) and a submarine ,once, in training.So I have no extensive maritime experience to draw on, However,while I know that these pathetic wrecks are just so much junk,I still cannot help but feel sorry for them.Like alot of other things in this world,ships are often better ''people'' than those who built and served on them. It is a shame that they cannot be restored to once again be put to good use

" ITS JAMMED!?!"
"WHAT NO WAY!!!!
"WE ARE SINKING!!!"
"TELL MY WIFE I LOVED HER!"
"hey you jerk what about me..."
"oh sorry....too soon?"