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"Out From The Fog"




          This image is from March 29th, 2009. It features a neighbor of mine, Bob, who's been a bayman all his life. During the three years I've lived here, I have seen him venture out in his wooden dory nearly every single day - oftentimes more than once a day - in pursuit of clams, crabs and fish. On this day - when an early spring fog descended from above, and clothed the local waters with a thick shroud of gray - I found out that he was returning from crabbing. I was surprised to learn this, as I thought that blue claw crabs were only around, or maybe only legally in season, in summer and fall. But it turns out that all crabs, including horseshoe crabs - even lobsters! - are 'in season' all year long. They may be burrowed deep in the muddy bay bottom during the winter, but they're available - especially to those well-seasoned old salts who've lived their whole lives here, and who know where, when and how to procure them.  


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Canon
Canon PowerShot SD1000
1/636 second
F/4.0
12 mm
80
Mar 29, 2009, 5:00:18 PM
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
15mm

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