John Brody Photography

Monterey Marina in Midnight Fog - As a fan of John Steinbeck and his novel Cannery Row, I thought this image fit the feeling he portrayed. The first paragraph of the book: "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitant are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches,' by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'Saints and angels and martyrs and holymen' and he would have meant the same thing" I spent many nights in this type of drizzly fog during the two years I spent in Monterey, one of the more beautiful places I've lived - John Brody Photography
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