MS Scotia Prince, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Looking northwest from the shore at Kelley Cove, just south of Yarmouth, here's MS Scotia Prince passing Cape Forchu Lighthouse, inbound from Portland Maine. The strip of land in the foreground is the small island at the end of Sunday Point. After an early breakfast I drove along Chebogue Road south from Yarmouth looking for a spot I found the night before where I might be able to get some pics of Scotia Prince as she passed near the lighthouse. Hilton Road in Kelley Cove led down to the shore and provided a clear unobstructed view of the light, and the spot I picked had just enough elevation to prevent the ferry from merging with the land in the foreground. I was using a Pentax 6x7 with a 400 mm f/4.0 lens and a heavy Gitzo tripod. The whole package was a bit more wiggly than I expected, but the half dozen images I got were pretty good.
M/S Scotia Prince, was built in Yugoslavia in 1972 as M/S Stena Olympica, and entered service between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. In 2005 she was leased by FEMA as a "hotel ship", providing temporary housing for folks displaced by Hurricane Katrina. She spent her later years in the service of various companies in the Mediterranean, finally ending up in ferry service between India and Sri Lanka. In April of 2012 she arrived at Chittagong Roads, Bangladesh after being sold for scrap. On April 10, 2012 the ship was run ashore where the business of actual ship-breaking could begin.
The original image was taken with a Pentax 6x7 using Kodak VPS 6006 120 color negative roll film. This was copied using a Nikon D3500 camera, 55mm f/3.5 Micro Nikkor lens fitted with a Nikon 4T closeup lens, with a Soligor 1.6x achromatic closeup lens on the 4T. Lighting was provided by a LED bulb (5000K) in a desk lamp. This is a 35mm frame sized crop from the original 6x7 format negative.
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MS Scotia Prince, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Looking northwest from the shore at Kelley Cove, just south of Yarmouth, here's MS Scotia Prince passing Cape Forchu Lighthouse, inbound from Portland Maine. The strip of land in the foreground is the small island at the end of Sunday Point. After an early breakfast I drove along Chebogue Road south from Yarmouth looking for a spot I found the night before where I might be able to get some pics of Scotia Prince as she passed near the lighthouse. Hilton Road in Kelley Cove led down to the shore and provided a clear unobstructed view of the light, and the spot I picked had just enough elevation to prevent the ferry from merging with the land in the foreground. I was using a Pentax 6x7 with a 400 mm f/4.0 lens and a heavy Gitzo tripod. The whole package was a bit more wiggly than I expected, but the half dozen images I got were pretty good.
M/S Scotia Prince, was built in Yugoslavia in 1972 as M/S Stena Olympica, and entered service between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. In 2005 she was leased by FEMA as a "hotel ship", providing temporary housing for folks displaced by Hurricane Katrina. She spent her later years in the service of various companies in the Mediterranean, finally ending up in ferry service between India and Sri Lanka. In April of 2012 she arrived at Chittagong Roads, Bangladesh after being sold for scrap. On April 10, 2012 the ship was run ashore where the business of actual ship-breaking could begin.
The original image was taken with a Pentax 6x7 using Kodak VPS 6006 120 color negative roll film. This was copied using a Nikon D3500 camera, 55mm f/3.5 Micro Nikkor lens fitted with a Nikon 4T closeup lens, with a Soligor 1.6x achromatic closeup lens on the 4T. Lighting was provided by a LED bulb (5000K) in a desk lamp. This is a 35mm frame sized crop from the original 6x7 format negative.
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