I drove up to Fort Pierce, Florida yesterday afternoon and took a few photographs around the City Marina and Marina Square. Fort Pierce has done a good job of reviving its downtown, with thriving restaurants, a large marina, and a really nice park right along the Indian River Lagoon. Unfortunately, the city has always had a reputation for having some high crime neighborhoods but has been working to tackle those problems over the past few years. In any case, I decided to take the photograph on the left of a pelican sitting on a post next to some boats in the marina. I was pretty far away, and I did not get the result that I wanted. But still, it was a pleasant, laid-back kind of image.
Just for fun, I decided to crop the photo even further, even though I knew it would be pretty blurry. And when I finished cropping it on the computer, I noticed that there was a human skeleton hanging from the back of a boat just behind that pelican, as seen in the photo on the right. It reminds me of the plot of the movie Blowup, which I have never seen but involves a photographer who thinks he has captured a murder on film. I'm not saying that the skeleton is a murder victim, although if it is a Halloween decoration, they are either extremely early putting it up or very late in taking it down. Perhaps Fort Pierce still is a little rough around the edges. And if you do happen to walk past that boat, try not to get on the wrong side of its owner, just in case.
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