Children and Duck-Boat Man

Children and Duck-Boat Man
The duck-boat man yells to children in the pond

Children and Duck-Boat Man. Colchester, United Kingdom. August 4, 2016. © Copyright 2016 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

The duck-boat man yells to children in the pond

OK, I think that they are actually probably supposed to be swan boats. We came across this scene on a day trip from London to Colchester, a smaller town at the end of a railway line. We picked the place more or less at random, thinking that we simply wanted to visit some town outside of London that we could get to and from in a day. The town felt a bit like a combination of regular town, distance commuter town, and slightly seedy resort area.

The town features one large castle in very good shape and the ruins of another very old stone structure. The former is in a very large public park, and quite a nice park it is. It has extensive lawns, areas of well-kept and very beautiful flowers. And off in a “corner” there is this pond. Something about this scene struck me as being both banal and a bit strange, with the group of children sitting in the boat and looking back at the fellow in the waders and orange shirt, who appears to be just a bit upset.


G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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