When, many years ago, I lived in the city of Hull, the pier was a busy place from where a ferry made regular journeys to and fro across the River Humber, between the waterfront and New Holland in Lincolnshire. The opening of the Humber Bridge in 1981 put an end to the ferry and made the pier more of an interesting destination for people than a vital transport location. It has remained so all these years. I have always enjoyed my photographic visits to the pier for the estuarial light, the buildings old and new, and the passing river traffic. This shot was taken on a winter afternoon when the light had begun to make silhouettes out of the wooden pier, the futuristic aquarium (The Deep) and the wind turbine components at the dock being loaded on to a vessel to take them into the North Sea.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10 2017
