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I was on one of the aran islands (Inish Oirr) on sunday. It is a beautiful island, well worth a visit, if nothing else but for the flight over! This ship, The MV Plassy, was washed ashore sometime in the 1960's. It was on its way from Belfast to limerick when it got caught up in a storm. Some Years later a bigger storm moved the ship to where it lays now.
I have seen some pretty potent images of ths wreck - here is my take on it.
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Canon 50D
Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm
280 second exposure @ F 22
Lee Big Stopper 10x Neutral Density Filter
Lee 0.9 GND
RAW processing and Sharpening in Digital Photo Professional
B&W conversion, Levels, Curves, and Framing in CS5
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Schneider-Kreuznach Super Angulon 90mm lens
Ilford FP4 125 film
One of the many ships beached at Purton,Gloucestershire,in the 1950s and 60s,in an attempt to shore up the bank between the River Severn and the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal.
The wreck of the steam trawler 'Shereton'. It was built in 1907.
In 1947 the boat broke free from its moorings and was washed up on Hunstanton Beach Norfolk.
The wreck of a crashed US Navy Douglas C-117D at Sólheimasandur ("the sands of Solhmeimasondur") in Southern Iceland. We were lead to this amazing site by a chance meeting with a fellow photographer at Halsanefs Hellir beach near the coastal town of Vik. He stated that this was "the real shit!" which we took to mean it's pretty amazing, which indeed it was. We spent a good while photographing it from all angles, before rain finally halted the proceedings.
The Douglas C-117D (USN 17171) apparently ran out of fuel after getting lost in bad weather and crash landed on November 24th, 1974, luckily without any causalities. The crew later discovered they had switched to the wrong fuel tank and actually had plenty in reserve; that apparently, was put to good use by the local farmer for sometime afterwards. The plane is not where it crashed, having being towed to higher ground for salvage. During these operations a helicopter crashed resulted in fatalities, and salvage operations were aborted leaving the wreck you see today.
Although completely unknown to us, the crash site is quite well know in Iceland and has also featured in a video of the Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós.
Sólheimasandur, Southern Iceland
Canon 5D MII | EF 25-104mm f4 L | f/16.0 | 1/25 sec | ISO 100 | Tripod | ND Grad
The old Wreck near Portsmouth re-worked with the Digital Photo Magazines Instant FX Template, then a simple frame added.
Berrow is a beautiful little town with a gorgeous beach situated near Burnham-on-Sea. The beach becomes really big during low tide where the water draws in a lot. After visiting the Cheddar Gorge where I could not muster up enough courage to go sit by the edge of the precipice and shoot, I decided to take the less adventurous route for my dusk shot...
I suffer from severe acrophobia that can't be quite explained in words and if you really want a good shot of the Cheddar gorge, it has to be with the horse shoe bend from the pinnacles. Though I made it almost to the edge, I quite could not pull that off! May be some other time eh?
Berrow beach is also home to the Norwegian barque SS Nornen shipwreck. I have always wanted to capture at least one of the many still very well preserved shipwrecks all along the coasts of Britain. Something about them is intriguing and if you read about them, you would be drawn to them just as I am to appreciate the courage and valour of the many men who would have lost their lives and the few who lived on to tell the tale...
If you fancy more about this - www.burnham-on-sea.com/berrow-wreck.shtml
The sand was really loose and you would easily be up to your knees as you approach the wreck. Wellies highly recommended as even though I had em, I ended up removing my shoes and going barefoot near the wreck. Quite an interesting evening in all...
EXIF - 13 sec f/22 ISO 50 32mm
Lee Big Stopper, Lee 3 Stop GND
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More popularly known as " The Tank " This American M42 Duster with a self propelled Anti-aircraft canon was originally in employ of the Jordanian Army it was scuttled as an artificial reef on September 1st 1999 by the Jordanian Royal Ecological Diving Society and has since accumulated a lot of marine life
Idilic setting marred by lost lives - Colum Harrington (21), Shane Kelly (20) and Fintan O'Driscoll (17) all died in a freak accident that occurred in front of Dunboy Castle near Castletownebere, west Cork in the early hours of March 1. 2008, when their car toppled into the water.
picked up the canon 14 f/2.8 for the weekend - can't imagine what this sucker would look like on a full frame rig.