This past weekend I had the chance to photograph people making ditty bags to hold their sailing tools. I wish I had been able to stick around for the end but it was still fun talking with people and learning why they were making these canvas bags meant for holding tools used by sailors for eons.
I’m always looking for an interesting angle to give an overall and this was it. The Waterline Center at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum is a great place with all sorts of cool things, like boats hanging from the ceiling.
Susannah was doing a great job of helping everyone out and in the photo above was talking about how the ditty bag is stitched together.
Steve and his friends were making do sewing for canvas for the first time and having a great time doing it.
Caitland and her mom Bethany were going through the sewing process together and having a ball doing it.
Varying between wide angle and tele long shots breaks up the perspective and gives the viewer a different look at virtually the same thing. I wish I could have stuck around to see the finished product to really end this story.