View from Hull Pier

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

Fog on the River Humber

Many navigable rivers, such as the River Humber that separates Yorkshire from Lincolnshire, have old wooden structures on and near their banks, the purpose of which is known to few, if any. Was this group of post the platform of a navigation light, a pier, a war-time structure of some sort, or a simple mooring point? I don't know. What I do know is that in my composition the hard, dark shapes offered a perfect foil for the insubstantial fog that was trying its best to snuff out the brightness of the sun.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10

Where the Hull meets the Humber

Today's photograph was taken very near where the River Hull flows into the River Humber. The water on the left below the pointed building (The Deep aquarium) is the Hull, and the distant water on the right is the Humber. In the foreground is one of the ends of the pier where ferries tied up before the Humber Bridge made them redundant. In the middle distance is the Sea Challenger "jack-up" wind turbine installation vessel being loaded with columns, blades etc. In the far distance is one of the ferries that links Hull with continental Europe, and to its right the cooling towers and machinery of Saltend chemicals park.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10