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Corpach, Fort William, Scotland
STS will be back shortly, but here's a few notes on the image...
In recent years this wreck has become a photographer’s hotspot along with the Glenfinnan Viaduct of Harry Potter fame.
It's true name is the "MV Dayspring", a fishing boat built in 1975 to catch herring and mackerel. It's life as a fishing vessel came to an end in 2000 and was moored in the Fort William area. However, the boat was caught in a storm in December 2011 which ripped it from its moorings where it ran aground at Corpach.
Since then, the Dayspring MV has been quietly waiting where the storm brought it. Not so quietly... in 2017, a large rescue operation was launched because a boat had just triggered its distress beacon. It was actually the wreck’s buoy. It was perhaps MV Dayspring’s trick not to be forgotten. The banks of the loch have now calmed down. But the old fishing boat is still waiting for someone to look at it and to reinvent a future for it.
Union Pacific C41-8W No. 9502 leads a Yermo-North Platte manifest freight through Echo, Utah the morning of June 4, 1994. UP 9502 and UP 9504 were involved in a collision with a westbound train in Keystone, Nebraska on October 1, 1993. Both locomotives were only eight days old at the time, and were repaired by UP and returned to service. Info from UtahRails.net
''Treat This'' 292 ~ Kreative People group
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Solheimasandur plane wreck in 1973 at south Iceland.
The Douglas R4D-8 US Navy transport plane had delivered supplies at Hofn Hornafjördur Airport for the radar-station in Stokksnes, Iceland. En route the airplane encountered severe icing. The crew were not able to maintain altitude. A forced landing was carried out on an ice covered river on near coast of Iceland. The ice broke but the airplane did not sink.
The remains of the plane were abandoned and the main fuselage as still there since 1973.
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Wreck of the SS Nornen, Berrow, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
This old wreck has been on my mind to shoot for about 2 years but as it's a bit of a drive and you need the weather, tides and sunset to align plus have the time in the schedule to shoot it I haven't before now. On the August Bank Holiday weekend I was free and had reason to be heading that way so I decided to make an afternoon/evening out of it and try to get something.
The SS Nornen was a Norwegian Barque sailing ship. It had 3 masts and was built in France in 1876.
On 1 Feb 1897 it set sail from Bristol bound for Brunswick in Georgia, USA. Having loaded a cargo of resin and turpentine, the Nornen set sail back to Bristol. During the night of 2/3 March, a major storm battered the coasts of south west England. Captain Olsen made an attempt to shelter in the lee of Lundy Island, but this was in vain. With sails torn, the crew were powerless against the rough swells and driving sleet. The Nornen drifted north-westward, eventually running aground on Berrow Beach, Berrow, Somerset.
The captain risked his life by jumping overboard, into the muddy, icy cold waters of the Severn Estuary. None of the other crewmen nor the ship's dog followed. At 11:30 on 3 March, the RNLI lifeboat "Godfrey Morris"[ reached the stricken vessel, which was standing upright on Gore Sands. All crew* and the ship's dog were rescued and taken to safety.
Salvage began almost immediately, with the insurers logging her as 'sold as a wreck' on 2 April 1897. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nornen
I did find shooting this wreck a challenge as I wanted to go low to the sand but if I did that it was impossible to isolate the two rows of timbers from each other. I was there for a few hours with one other Tog appearing during Golden Hour and several beach walkers visited as well. Luckily although there were a number of heavy rain showers skirting the site (you can see one to the left of the frame) I stayed dry the whole time. This shot is is a series of 5 bracketed images taken shortly before the sun was lost behind that bank of clouds. I'd hoped the shadows you can see would appear as I thought they could be used in the shot.
It's pretty flat there and I know the Bristol channel has a massive tidal range so you need to be careful there but I've seen some shots with more of the sand missing and water sitting between the timbers which can make for a cracking image. A place I hope to return to.
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Repainted IC SD40-3 6263 leads ore loads South at Sax, MN. The 6263 has a unusual cab window on this side due to a repair from wreck damage.
10 years ago
This is a shot of the Maheno wreck on Fraser Island Australia, which I've taken 10 years ago on my Down Under trip.
Don't blame me about picture quality! At this time, I owned only a simple point and shoot camera and it was the beginning of my passion to photography.
This might just be an art installation at MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), but the wreck might symbolise a lot more.
In 2004 the Australian sociologist, John Carroll, published a controversial take on the state of our civilisation. He called it, The Wreck of Western Culture (Scribe). scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-wreck-o...
Since then quite a number of thinkers have follow similar themes in their work, most notably the American political philosopher, Victor Davis Hanson. Western civilisation would appear to be on its last legs as foundational values have been eroded to the point of utter nihilism. Even today there are people in our countries who wonder aloud whether in fact democracy is finished.
The very fact that question is being asked, indicates that the civilisation which began with ancient Greek philosophy (and yes, Democracy) and was mediated throughout Western Europe by Roman law and governance, and fed by the spirituality of Christianity (which was in itself an offspring of Judaism), is facing a similar end to the first Roman Empire. The major difference this time is that the barbarians are not outside the gates of Rome, but within the very portals of power in our societies.
Thomas Jefferson (the drafter of the American Declaration of Independence) summed it up really with one simple statement.
"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
No wonder there has been such an orchestrated campaign of disarming the people, both figuratively (through restrictions on the freedoms of association, speech and religion), and literally through the confiscation of weapons. We are at a major crossroads and only fools and ostriches don't see it.
It is quite fashionable today by those who wish to deny the imminent collapse of Western civilisation, to point to the success of Corporate Capitalism and the rise of Global networks of power (the UN, the WEF, various 'free trade agreements') as a sign that things are under control. But the price we continue to pay is the loss of liberty. As another American founding father, Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
We all found that to be true during the Covid plan-demic (no that is not a typo).
But don't take my word for this. Instead I would suggest you would be highly enlightened to hear what one of the world's leading psychiatrists and neuroscientists has to say about the link between socio-cultural breakdown, individual sanity and the mental health epidemic.
How Our Brains Turned Fools Woke - Dr. Iain McGilchrist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxupgRr-qwI&t=65s
Since I'm not posting any new photos today let me go all the way heretical and also suggest you watch this one. Carl Benjamin used to be a Leftist. Not any more, and here is why.
The Rise of the Woke Was the DEATH of Liberalism - Carl Benjamin
Another image from our recent day out at Dungeness. Two old wrecks photographing two old wrecks. How apt and ironic is that!
This is a ship wreck near Cape Agulhas, the most southern point of Africa. I am not sure if this scene still exists because the position of the ship changes a lot over the years due to the waves and weather. The ship was named "Meisho Maru No.38" and it was a Japanese fishing trawler. It ran aground in 1982.
Wreck of fishing trawler Addie, which ran aground during the hurrican Maria in 2017, near Roseau - Dominica
Ship wreck at Roa Island without a visible name.The Vita Nova Z588 was built in 1967 and was a Belgian Trawler. She later spent some time in Ireland and then was decommissioned and ended up in Millom, Cumbria . She was sold as scrap to a family who converted her to a houseboat and was anchored just off the causeway between Rampside and Roa Island. The family lived on her until the really high tides at the end of 2014/early 2015 washed her ashore.
Pan Am Railways GP40 (high hood) 380 leads the combined wreck train past MP-100 at Burnham Jct, ME on 3/21/2020. The train was on the return trip from Northern Maine Junction after cleaning up several loaded LPG tank cars which derailed and rolled down an embankment in Etna, ME a week or two prior. The 380 was having a hard time on this day, which required a running start to make many of the hills. At the end of the train, SD40M-2 3405 was isolated. As for the 380, it was reactivated to handle detour traffic, as a result of the CN rail blockades in February of 2020. However, this would prove to be the last stand for the Pan Am high hoods. Upon reaching Waterville, the 380 was cutoff the train and had the water drained after being taken into the shop complex. The 380 would be cut up by LTEX crews at Waterville before the end of the year (despite a few interested parties) ending the high hood era on Pan Am.
Pan Am Railways
Train: Wreck Extra 380 West
Burnham Jct, ME
3/21/2020
Pan Am Railways, District 1
Taken on Crow Point in North Devon - Very different edit for me, however, wanted to bring out just how bright the day was and the subject with what would have been bright colours on the hull (and no doubt the rest of the boat)
Wreck of a fishing vessel on the shore of Loch Linnie, Scotland, with Ben Nevis hiding behind the low cloud.
The 1975 built trawler MV Dayspring was washed up on the shingle at Caol back in 2011 and has been a sight I have kept intending to visit. The 26 metre boat is gradually decaying so the overcast moody weather on the day of my visit seemed so appropriate.
For those who don't know the area, the UK's highest peak, Ben Nevis can be seen directly behind the wreck looming up out of the loch and into the cloud.
The remains of wreck of an English collier brig of 18th century date, thought to have been beached at Seaton Carew during a storm. She is a wooden sailing vessel built primarily of oak. The site is protected under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.
On 21 November 1973, a Douglas C-117D transport aircraft operated by the United States Navy crashed onto Sólheimasandur beach in southern Iceland during severe icing conditions. All seven crewmembers on board survived the accident, and the aircraft was written off.
Today she is a tourist attraction but has suffered damage from these tourists as well as the elements.