I really like the photo!  it’s a clean and simple composition, not symmetrical but somehow balanced.

Looking up ISPS, I find International Ship and Port Security. I guess I don’t get the joke…

Rick

Doesn't look  very secure _ I gather that is the point.   I like the shot

ann

On 1/2/2022 8:31 PM, Rick Womer wrote:

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Am 03.01.22 um 02:31 schrieb Rick Womer:

Thanks.

ISPS is no joke. Far from it. It was forced upon the world by the U.S.
in the aftermath of 9/11. While we could drive, walk and photograph
everywhere in European sea ports for many years, they've now been turned
into some kind of high-security prisons. Fences, CCTV and security
patrols now make them the most forbidding (and forbidden) places.

It is now easier for a normal citizen to legally go to the moon than
into a port under ISPS rules. The Belgian minister for North Sea affairs
has just suggested raising the penalty for illegal entry into an ISPS
area to 15 years. That's what the average murderer gets in Belgium.

With the exception of a few glossy pics from their PR departments,
following generations will never know what a sea port looks like from
the inside.

Has there ever been an attempt to hijack a vessel in Europe and ram it
into the Statue of Liberty? Patently not. So, what's the point of the
exercise? Our politicians have 'done something' and the suppliers of
fences, CCTV equipment and the whole "security industry" are making a
fortune.

Now, have another look at the photo: an unused jetty 'protected' by a
solid metal gate and the threat of a prison sentence. There's nothing
there to protect.

Methinks that's plain stupid.

Ralf

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