WPG Vintage Challenge.
Wakering Photography Group Vintage Printed Challenge.
It struck me when my friend Robert Pacheco mentioned that my image of LV 18 was a moving light house, I thought how unusual that may be world wide.
Unmanned light ships were introduced around the UK’s coasts as far back as 250 years ago, this original photograph, (which I own) was taken on the 19th July 1927.
The approaches to the Thames Estuary from the North Sea are littered with huge sand bars just beneath the seas surface, these sand bars are constantly moving, so light vessels were easy to reposition accordingly.
Unfortunately we are not allowed to use other photographers photographs in our challenge, and rightly so, but I thought this image was worth sharing.
WPG Vintage Challenge.
Wakering Photography Group Vintage Printed Challenge.
It struck me when my friend Robert Pacheco mentioned that my image of LV 18 was a moving light house, I thought how unusual that may be world wide.
Unmanned light ships were introduced around the UK’s coasts as far back as 250 years ago, this original photograph, (which I own) was taken on the 19th July 1927.
The approaches to the Thames Estuary from the North Sea are littered with huge sand bars just beneath the seas surface, these sand bars are constantly moving, so light vessels were easy to reposition accordingly.
Unfortunately we are not allowed to use other photographers photographs in our challenge, and rightly so, but I thought this image was worth sharing.