The Effects Of A Work Slow Down At Long Beach (2015) – Photo Of The Day

Description: Continuing on with oddball photos: Long Beach during a work slow down on the docks.

What’s interesting to me about this photo, other than the large amount of ships waiting to discharge or pick up cargo, is what the frame contains.

Starting at the bottom are a LOT of cargo ships. Container ships, RORO (roll on, roll off car carriers) fuel tankers. then the breakwater to the harbor and more ships at anchor.

On the right hand side, the big blank area is Long Beach airport.

The left side shows the Los Angeles River at the end of its 51 mile length (starting pretty much under a Costco in the San Fernando Valley). Follow it up the frame and it cuts to the right, but will eventually bend to the left and hit that gap between the mountains behind downtown LA and the much larger San Gabriel Mountains to the right. Then continue more left out of screen to its origin.

Also on the left, huddled around the outlet of the river, is the city of Long Beach.In the water, the white things on the left are a Carnival cruise ship and behind it (barely visible behind the white dome) the Queen Mary.

Downtown Los Angeles is visible in daylight and looks small from this distance.  Behind it are the Hollywood Hills.

Behind those hills is Burbank and its own airport with the rest of the San Fernando Valley (The Valley in local parlance) stretching far off to the left.

By the way, does anyone know what year this truck is? Maybe a shot of the grill seen below will help place it.

Title: The Effects Of A Work Slow Down At Long Beach (2015)

Location: Lang Beach, California, USA, North America


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