Punta del Este - fishing dock area

I go very seldom to Punta del Este. I am not interested in the noise, glamour and famous people that it attracts in the summer. When I get there, I make a bee line to the harbor and walk to the fishing dock, where my favorite subjects are waiting in the winter light.



Near noon, there is brisk work on cleaning fish.



which attracts a lot of seagulls.



and sometimes, seawolfs too. This is one of the characters that were around the fish cleaners, hoping to get something.



There are courageous boats, waiting for the order to go out on the ocean in the thick fog.

Most of the boats were just moored after the day work, or maybe waiting for better weather.



Technical: Nikon FE, several lenses, FP4+ in Beutler.

Testing old cameras

I have been again in that fishing dock in Buceo harbor, testing old cameras. Overcast weather, as it must be in our so-called winter.







In the nearby Yacht Club, rows of nice boats wait for the opportunity to sail.



The boats are tightly moored with old rubber, stretching lazily with the wind load.



Technical: Exakta (Isco-Westron), Canonet QL17, well-expired FP4+ in Beutler.

Panoramic Congress (Legislative Palace)

This is an Election Year; primaries in June, legislative and presidential elections in October, and probably ballotage in November. Many people will try to get inside this building for five years.

The Palacio Legislativo, our Congress, was built in the 1920s with all luxury, Italian marble and Uruguayan black granite, and very impressive neoclassical architecture.
 
The legislators inside were expelled at least once by people in uniform. I still remember this building all rounded up by tanks back in late June, 1973, when the storm burst in our politics. Yet, it is a safer place than in other neighboring countries.

I also have been hoping to get inside, but just to take a few pictures. Someday I hope to put on a colored shirt and dark glasses,  and mix with a tourist group from a cruiser's visit.