Last Saturday, I met a few friends down at the lower parking lot at Point Pleasant Park for a little photographic expedition. I wanted to take in the newly reconstructed walkway out to the end of the container pier, but for reasons unknown, it was gated off - possibly because of the impending weather event. Instead, we decided to walk the length of Terminal Road and see what caught our photographic fancy. Quite a lot, as it turned out.
We started by shooting over, through, and around the fence to capture the walls of containers in the Port.
As it turns out, there are quite a few of them.
The different colours of the containers added to their visual appeal, and it had also started snowing, which we worked into our photography.
At some point we noted that a train was arriving through the rail cut, just as the snow was intensifying.
As we got closer to the grain elevator, the old conveyor lines heading out to the piers caught our eyes.
Eventually, the gain elevator itself became our subject.
Between the rail cars in the foreground, the snow, and all the ducting running everywhere on the outside of the building, the engineer in me found it very hard to resist - and so I didn't. Many photographs ensued.
At some point the snow was getting rather wet and heavy, we were getting cold, and our camera gear was getting a bit on the wet side. We headed back to our cars, but not before I caught one last image of these traffic control signs placed ever-so-carefully in front of a red shed.
Everything on Terminal Road is very industrial, but I love that sort of thing, so our outing worked out quite well. We will likely go back sometime. Any maybe, just maybe, the pier walkway might be open that day.
