Royal Navy Dockyard Bermuda

This is another shot of the Royal Navy Dockyards in Bermuda. The

colorful flags really caught my eye.

Those are signal flags used to send messages between ships. Each one represents a letter of the alphabet. Its been too long for me to remember each one, but they are likely arranged to form a message here.

 

Aside from that, nice shadows and sillouettes.

I have a hard time making any aspect of the picture a real "subject"- the uneven exposure creates hotspots that draw my eye, and the room itself doesn't provide much in terms of photogenic focus... the way the hulls and flags are lines up both seem "half-subjects." In fairness though the Dockyards aren't an easy place to make good photographs (good photographs that aren't also in their tourist brochures, that is) unless you're making pictures of people. If capturing patterns of line and colour in the flags was your priority, I wonder if using a stronger telephoto and (if possible) finding a higher vantage point or angle that minimizes camera tilt and narrowing in on the flags only would help... it would make a more abstract photo, but perhaps a more immediate one as well. I spent much of my childhood in Bermuda and still get back whenever possible; I have many relatives and friends there, especially around Somerset. It's a decievingly difficult island to make a truly engaging photograph on for all it's natural beauty.