This is Slussen. It’s in Stockholm, where I come from. Slussen is the place where you leave Lake Mälaren and enters the sea. It’s also the way to go when you leave Southern Stockholm (Söder) and wants to visit Old Town, the oldest part of Stockholm. What you see in the picture is what in Swedish is called a ‘sluss’, which means lock, a place where you by boat go from one water level to another. The location is basically called The Lock, Slussen. It is also called the Divorce Ditch, given by all the argues that husband and wife have had during their not so straight-forward way through the lock. The arguing is always about how the wife handles the situation when the water is let in or out the lock, without damaging your own or another boat. During summertime, this is therefore a popular place for spectators waiting for The Argue.
This picture rooms nothing from this. It cannot be much calmer than this. A swan has decided to have a look if Lake Mälaren offers better waters. The picture is from 1988, and it was captured with my Nikon F2 and a Nikkor 35mm/f2. This, as all my negatives from this time, was scanned during the early 2000s. I have retouched is a little to get it into a descent shape. Most of the scanned material is in a pretty lousy shape, and it was not the raw material but the scanner that made it that way. One day, I might give these negatives another round, with a better scanner…
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I am enjoying the trip through your old images and the stories that go with them. Seattle also has a series of locks to get from the lakes to Puget Sound. Great place to watch salmon and people argue about boat handling as well. I do like the Divorce Ditch name and understand that all to well.
So you do have them in Seattle, too? It’s really interesting going through these locks, the water pressure can be pretty hard on you when the gates are opened. It’s really not easy keeping the boat steady. So you have salmons there as well, that’s almost as enjoyable as those argues. You don’t find any of those in Stockholm but have to go further North.