Two major hurricanes devastated the Rhode Island coast in the 20th century. The first of these was the unnamed 1938 Hurricane. Coming up the coast, the '38 destroyed the first Shore Dinner Hall at Rocky Point Park in Warwick, and it also destroyed the Pier at Crescent Park in East Providence. Both were rebuilt only to have Hurricane Carol devastate the coast in 1954. The rebuilt Crescent Park Pier was again destroyed by Carol and some of the remains are seen in today's photo. Carol's storm surge flooded all of downtown Providence to a height just over two stories and prompted the building of the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier. At low tied, another very interesting section of stunted pilings can be seen, and those will be the subject of another photo. For today, I chose to show the section of the pier that stretched out into the Bay. When I was a kid, the Pier was long gone but the amusement park remained. The park couldn't survive an economic downturn in the '60s, and all that's left of the pride of the East Bay is the historic carousel. That, too, will be featured in another photo.
I hadn't planned to go black and white, today, but I just wasn't impressed with the color version. The sand, sky, and sea were all kind of "blah". Besides, the photo depicts and event from 1954, so black and white seemed somewhat appropriate. I went through my traditional b&w conversion, starting with a simple pop filter in Topaz Adjust. A black and white gradient in color blend mode was added, followed by a layer adjustment and then a slight contrast adjustment. The top layer is a sepia filter.
