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The very first off shore


The very first off shore
Information sur la photo
Copyright: Eric PIRARD (cyrrhus) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 475 W: 39 N: 598] (2706)
Genre: Lieux
Média: Couleur
Date de prise de vue: 2006-06-25
Catégories: Nature
Appareil photographique: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-H1, SONY 12x f=6mm-72mm (1:2.8-3.7)
Exposition: f/4.5, 1/1000 secondes
Versions: version originale, Workshop
Date de soumission: 2006-08-10 15:38
Vue: 585
Points: 2
[Ligne directrice - Note] Note du photographe
Shame on me... when I arrived on Goleta's beach I was quite surprised to see off shore platforms.
Until then I thought that american petroleum resources were essentially coming from Texas and the Mexican gulf.
Then I remembered the CalTex brand, so famous when I was a young boy... and I said to myself... this probably comes from CALifornia - TEXas.
Thanks to the web, I discovered that drilling for oil in California was initiated in 1860 just a few years after the gold rush. This later became the Standard Oil company... which jointly operated in the Middle East with The Texas Oil company under the name CalTex.
At the end of the sixties (if I remember well) the CalTex tankstations disappeared and two new brands appeared in the street : Chevron and Texaco.
Maybe more interesting, it appears that oil exploration off the coast of Summerland in 1896 led to what was probably the very first off shore exploitation on earth.
Read this
The platform appearing on this picture is not that old (probably dating back to the seventies) but is only a few miles to the north of Summerland.
Surprising contrast with these special palm trees, isn't it ?
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Hi Eric
Thanks for sharing this shot - a good note too!
If I can be critical I would say the oil rig seems incidental to this photograph, it would have been better to zoom in closer, and perhaps include only one of the palm trees.
The other point is the horizon - essential that it is level, otherwise the image feels unbalanced. I've tried a workshop - I hope you don't mind, and I don't know if it's an improvement, but I hope it helps.
Rew

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