Sodus Pt. New York-the wide view

[Tom Hildreth]

I had never been to Sodus Pt., New York, before, but I sure wasn't going to drive past the old grain elevator without a shot or two. In fact this is four Velvia 100 images made panoramic with the help of Photoshop Elements. I was told the last use of the grain elevator was for Genesee Brewing some years ago. Sodus Pt. apparently saw busier times as a Lake Ontario port town.

[Olypen]

Tom:

Great job with the panoramic... no "stitches" visible!  Somebody once said that those grain elevators against the  horizon are our USA equivalent of the European castles; and, like them, quite a few are disappearing.  At a spot in Minneapolis (which the St. Paul paper always used to call "Mill City") where 10 to 12 years ago I could choose from a large number of elevators of various designs to photograph, 3/4 are now gone.  I'm not sure why but I suppose that it has to do with exports.  Thanks for that view of Sotus Pt. 

[br1078lum]

Bill, sometimes it has to do with the market.  If the port further down the road can give you a better price than the one closer, it might be economically sensible to truck your grain the distance.  Sometimes the farms just disappear.  And if this mill was reliant on Gennesee brewing for a consumer, when the brewery went down, the mill most likely couldn't find another company to take the business.

This is a lovely panoramic, Tom.  Old places like this are hard to replace, and sooner or later, the memory of it will be gone when it gets torn down.  But it will live on in your picture.

PF

[Dean Williams]

Nice shooting, Tom.  I like the wide, wide look of this one. 
Excellent work putting them together, too.

Dean

[Kalkadan]

Tom, love the "thrust" of it somehow - the bulk of the silos on the left and those hard edged clouds over on the right.  Nice one.

Dan

[Tom Hildreth]

Thanks all for the comments. What I saw at this location, and did not convey it in this photo, was the old agri/industry on the left, and on the right, a harbor mostly filled with pleasure boats. Who knows, there may have been a fishing fleet here at one time, but that too, is history.

I don't live near the coast, but some recent road trips have opened my eyes. From Maryland to Maine, I'm convinced that the fisherman, beset by collapse of fishing stocks, must also be feeling the pinch of higher mooring costs as the pleasure boaters encroach and compete for dock space. We seem to be so wealthy we clutter the harbors with   pleasure boats. I'm wondering if high rent might be the final straw for the east-coast trawlers. I digress.