ALAN LEVENSON PHOTOGRAPHY

Commerce

These ship are skillfully unloaded.Part mechanics,Part skill,Part art,Part plain old hard work.
   
Being unloaded at Los Angeles Harbor.The containers are stacked very high these days. The older height restrictions are out. Because they are stacked so high, more containers are lost to wild seas.The cost of doing business.
  
Have you had your first $50 fillup yet?
     
  
Walking through an oil refinery you can't helpbut think of dinosaurs.Old oil.Old technology.A beautiful place at twilight.
   
The crew of this boat were fishermen, turned oil spill clean-up workers.They were setting records collecting spilled oil by scooping it upby hand.They'd rather be fish'in.
   
Piled high at the Long Beach, Ca Harbor,these shipping containers await their returnto Asia.A real life result of the (im)balance of trade.
     
  
The Tokyo Fish Market opens before sunrise.The Tuna auction is the main event. Frozen, numbered, and headless bodies are inspected and prodded before the bidding begins.
   
Born together.....