Let’s return for a moment to our 2010 journey down the Calumet River under the auspices of the Forgotten Chicago cruise. For all of the industry that was either dead or quiet for the weekend, a very few sites were operating, including this chute very precisely loading the freighter. I was really impressed with how straight the sides of the coal stayed as the stream dropped into the freight ship. And for once, there’s an actual person in the photo, pleasantly unidentifiable, to give us a sense of scale. All of this stuff was just huge and massive, but it’s hard to convey without something identifiable like a person nearby.

August 29, 2010. Nikon D90 (DX sensor), 70–300mm Nikon zoom lens at 70mm (105mm equivalent: 210mm), f/7.1, 1/4,000, ISO 640.