Mono Monday 50 Plus #36

As a kid, I used to love storys of full rigged sailing ships, and the golden age of sail. I still do.  Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, Moby Dick,  Captain Horatio Hornblower,  The Mutiny and  Captain Bligh,  Captain Cooks epic voyages,  The Franklin Expedition, Magellan.  How wonderful it was to imagine the open sea, the freedom, the sights one could see, the strange lands and peoples.  And then as you get older and read more, the romance of the open sea unfolds into the reality of shipboard living conditions, the squalor, the unbelievable horrorific quality of the food, the work load.  The military ships over loaded their ships with a third to half as many men as they needed to man the ship, knowing that many would be lost to scurvy, disease and injury. Imagine being in a place, knowing that every third man would be dead before the cruise is over!!   Men were pressed into service without their consent to fill the quotas.  More men were lost to scurvy over these years than were lost to disease, injury, and battle combined!!   In light of all this, they pushed the boundaries of human knowledge; these early sailors did the equivalent of modern man going to the moon!   

Several years ago, we had three tall ships come into Monterey Bay, two wooden hulled ships,  The Bounty, and  one from Hawaii, and  a steel hulled masted research ship from on of the universities back east.  I am using the smaller of the three, the one from Hawaii in MM 36.

The original pic is the ship sailing out of Monterey Bay, with the Ft. Ord Dunes in the background:

 

 

 

 

 

(This is not the actual photo I used, it was in the same series of photos, but will give you a good representation of what the original shoreline looked like)

 

 

The second pic, I tried to make the land look more like an island point, and changed the skyline look, added some waves breaking

 

The last, I over darkened it, and made it grainy to appear as a old print: