121 - Caravan

121 - Caravan
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

This time I wanted a different kind of image, still a bit two dimensional, but this time doing something with the outdoor type stuff such as clouds and vegetation. The flag and the pole turned out to be the only difficult element, they were so flimsy that it was easy to lose all definition.

This caravan was being used as a shelter/office for a car ferry across the Vistula River, although by car ferry I mean a kind of small barge able to carry up to three cars if the water was deep enough, or only 1 on this day as it was a bit shallow. I remember we used one a few miles further upstream a couple of years ago, except that the water was so low cars could not be taken and we were ferried across in a rowing boat.

These ferries struggle on, while the boats that used to ferry people up and down the river went out of business in the 1990's, probably from insufficient funding in the new reality and the easier access to cars.

I am using the caravan inserted into another picture, this time a full colour one of a church and a hill.