One of my favorite events every summer in Cleveland is the GIFT Cruise - it's a benefit for the Gay Invitational Fellowship Tournament, a gay bowling league tournament. I'm not a bowler and I doubt most of the attendees are, but it's always a good time. Oh yeah, it's on the Goodtime III, and every year I've gone the weather has been decent to great - this time it was so-so, there were storm clouds to the north and south and the route didn't make it very far down the Cuyahoga but I still managed to get some nice shots.

 

 

Federal Building reclad is plugging along:

 

 

Boaters making use of the new transient marina:

 

All kinds of watercraft on the Lake:

 

 

 

 

Sorry about the gratuitous photos of the Hilton construction - not that often we see tall buildings go up, so why not:

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently the container shipping business at the Port of Cleveland is double what it used to be?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm guessing it was either the threatening weather or multiple ore freighters further along the river, but this was as far down the Cuyahoga as we got.  :|

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed!

 

 

 

 

Indeed I did.

I thought container shipping had much more than doubled.

Awesome shots Mayday! Can you give us some advance notice next year. It looks like a really good time.

Great stuff. Nice collection of boats, tugs, barges and ships! The third-to-last is my favorite pic.

 

And congrats on UO's advertising partnership with the Cleveland Browns!

 

That last photo is one of the best skyline shots I've seen.

Jeez man, do you take photos professionally? Those are really good.

Thanks everyone! TBideon[/member] I guess "semi-pro" would be more appropriate - some of my work has been in local ads/media, I've done some event/tradeshow work and then the opening photo for 'Hot in Cleveland'; not enough to go full-time but it's all good.

Another great set. I am anxious to see the Hilton and federal building reclad complete.

 

Another great set. I am anxious to see the Hilton and federal building reclad complete.

 

The Hilton will be built and fully occupied before the Federal Building is done...

I really like the shot of Terminal towering over AT&T, which IIRC was the tallest building in Cleveland before the former was built.

Good job, as usual, MayDay!  :clap:

 

Another great set. I am anxious to see the Hilton and federal building reclad complete.

 

The Hilton will be built and fully occupied before the Federal Building is done...

 

Right?  Unbelievable amount of "clock-whoring" happening on that job! :)

 

Another great set. I am anxious to see the Hilton and federal building reclad complete.

 

The Hilton will be built and fully occupied before the Federal Building is done...

 

Right?  Unbelievable amount of "clock-whoring" happening on that job! :)

 

"Clock-whoring".  Sounds like a job ColDayMan[/member] would do!