Often when I look at a line of disintegrating and decaying groynes I am intrigued by their resemblance to human beings in appearance. For example, the posts in the photo below – closely related to each other through their original function – are different heights, varying girth, have individual ‘hair styles’ and distinctive, gnarled personal features. They could well be characters in an identity parade or, perhaps, children in a playground anxious to be picked by a team captain.
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This second photo I have titled ‘Meet the Groynes’. Surely we have here a father, a mother and their three children (of different ages)!
Meet the Groynes
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hahaha!!!! Oh how gorgeous! And how funny! I COMPLETELY agree with you! Very imaginative thoughts and pictures! 🙂
I thought you would enjoy these Gigi!
An interesting family to be sure;) Louis, you introduced me to a word that never registered for me before-groynes. Thanks!
As a child I knew them as ‘breakwaters’ – whch I still find preferable because it describes their function – but ‘groyne’ is the technical term.
Very creative! Everything has its own life and history
Thanks for your appreciative comment.
I like the human reference to these also. And the minimalism of your compositions. Lovely!
Thanks Karen. If only groynes could speak!