Last of Salmon Fishermen

Last of the salmon fishermen. This is a part-time salmon fisherman,

Moss Landing, California, who supplements his income working for a

major copy company. Your ratings and critiques are invited and most

welcome. (If you submit a harsh and/or very critical rating, please

make a helpful and constructive comment/Please share your superior

knowledge to help improve my photography.) Thanks! Enjoy! John

This is a machine translation of the above (with all its faults):

[relates to a subscriber's comment in Spanish, since removed]

'i like a lot of the light the model and the exprecion, it unico that I you aconsejaria is that the portrait was aligned to the right, of that form him daria but depth to the compocicion. greetings gs'

Thanks Glen. I think he's watching his livelihood and avocation together with his lifestyle disappear with the waning sun.

John

I don't read Spanish and many PN viewers don't read Spanish either. I do like comments left in Spanish and wish you had kept the original, as the machine text was deeply flawed and only for the English-only crowd for whom it was English or nothing.

Please don't be offended.

John

It's ok, sorry about that. I's just that I bumped with some bad people arround here in PN. Some people that dont's like people that speak or write spanish. I apologize for all this. Your work It's great. and this particular frame its realy nice, I love the reflection on the glases. it looks like a if him was looking into his past or something. I found the compocition too much to the left. it would be nice some more air there.

Have a nice day, and again sorry about all this confution.

GS.

You have it exactly -- he is looking into his past -- symbolized by the setting sun, the dusk of the independent salmon fishermen. That same day the 'ground fishermen' had their boats rendered useless, I think or just earlier (trawler, bottom fishermen, for roiling the ocean bottom and 'disturbing' it from its 'natural' state, and the State put them out of business and rendered their boats unusable and their licenses null and void -- he operates a trawler or 'drag line' boat but the economics are chancy at best for him.

As to the language, no offense and I see you understand me well. Thanks for the compliment and the critique.

John