"Morning Rain, Grand Canal, Venice, Italy" (1999) shows dawn's first light as it creeps through the dock, lighted by lamp posts, where gondolas shiver in the quivering sea.
They include "Starlight Night, Lake George," from 1922, a dark blue landscape dotted with globes of dock lights and stars; "Storm Cloud, Lake George," from a year later, a darker canvas, the mountains in silhouette with a whipping flare of light above; and "The Old Maple," from 1926, a tribute to a knotted climbing tree on the Stieglitz estate.
From the fountain at Lincoln Center to the laundry room and swimming pool at the Gotham condominium building on East 87th Street to the elevators and loading dock lighting at 344 Hudson Street in Manhattan, things are being turned off when supply demands it.
The last days of May are among the longest of the year and, in spite of the ferry-dock lights and the lights of the cars streaming into the belly of the boat, she could see some glow in the western sky and, against it, the black mound of an island — not Bowen but one whose name she did not know — tidy as a pudding set in the mouth of the bay.
Point Welcome turned on all of her running and docking lights when first illuminated by the FAC aircraft and contacted the CSC by radio telling them that they were being illuminated by aircraft.
By the time the ship left the dock, a light drizzle was falling and the Detroit skyline passed in a soggy blur.
The stately Charles W. Morgan whaling ship and its dock was lighted.
His use of painted and projected backdrops (including the Roman Forum, a boat dock, and light-show psychedelia) gave his photographs a low-budget Hollywood touch that looks positively postmodern today.
Last week, I took a flight across the Thames in the Emirates Air Line and marveled at all the historic and modern engineering achievements I could see from the capsule: the Olympic park, the Thames barrier, East India docks, Canary Wharf, Docklands Light Railway and the cable car itself.
In a test it was attached to a connector of a small music dock; a blue light on top showed that it had power.
