Monoliths, Militant? Modernist?

Also, revisited some of my favourite cranes at the docks. Still wondering how or if the cranes tie in with the fortifications in my practice - both can be m onoliths and dinosaur-like in the landscape I guess. I'm reading Owen Hatherley's Militant Modernism......

Disembarking and cranes at St Peter Port some years ago. Grandpa at his place of work.

Found these photos I took in Vietnam 6 years ago -one taken from a boat, one from the back of a motorbike.Enduring interests.

Passing cranes

Visited the Channel show, Southampton to look at my photos. Maybe some framing issues?Visited the Solent photography department too. Also, went to Artsway and had a sneak preview of their open show, which looks rather good for an open. Glimpsed a lovely conglomeration of cranes on the docks on the journey there, but only from the speedy road. On the way back I picked up another 7 films in for processing, including a rather nice shot of cranes loading the cargo boat in Alderney. The buoy looks beautifully fluorescent against the greyness of the weather.

Returned to think about the glass bunker problem

Photographing cranes is a lot more straightforward.

WWII - 1940 invasion of the Channel Islands

Lots in the news on the 70th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland and it remains an emotive subject. I thought about the German invasion of the Channel Islands on June the 30th 1940 and the bombing of the Guernsey St Peter Port pier whilst my Grandpa, a stevedore, was among many working there.

In the photograph you can see the big boat cranes behind the bomb smoke - are they the same ones I snapped in the 1970's and still like to photograph now?