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Corpach, Fort William, Scotland
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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.
This wreck, now is no longer exist... Time and waves take their toll
I don't remember whet is taken... 1998-2000.
I remember instead was around 04:30 AM in May !
I remember instead was a happy time despite appearance...
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Trawler MV Dayspring (built 1975) was beached in 2011 after breaking loose from its mooring during a storm. The wreck lies below the high tide line on a shingle beach on Loch Eil where it joins with Loch Linnhe. Ben Nevis, with its peak obscured by clouds, lies in the background. Scottish Highlands.
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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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Corpach wreck - A rising high tide on Loch Linnhe with the late afternoon light picking out the colours of the Corpach wreck under a dynamic sky.
Formerly the MV Dayspring, she now sits abandoned high (and normally dry) on Loch Linnhe resting where she ran aground on the shingle beach during a storm in December 2011. A magnet for us photographers and a must visit location when up on the West Coast of Scotland to see what conditions will present themselves when in the presence of this charismatic old wreck.
Corpach, Highland Scotland
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.
Wreck of the SS Nornen, Berrow, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, UK
I really can't get used to the new layout on here!👎
Sorry for absence and lack of replies/comments - will try and do better in next week as have a few days off and hoping to have a bit of dry weather for some shooting in east Sussex/Kent.
This shot was taken a little earlier than the last one from a more head-on angle to the wreck of the SS Nornen.
I know to some it will seem quite similar to the last shot and I can understand that. In this one though I liked that the sun was not in the shot to draw the eye, the refinery is visible in the background and just a hint of a rainbow there too that I didn't notice at the time.
For me the clouds that I got that afternoon/evening were the highlight to this old wreck.
I won't be posting whilst I'm away but will try to catch up on acknowledging comments and commenting. How those on several Social Media sites keep up I'll never know!
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.
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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
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.
St. Margaret’s Hope
Two wrecks behind the ferry terminal in the village of St. Margaret’s Hope. Looks as though they were once part of the fishing fleet, which having reached the end of their lives have been abandoned to be replaced by new vessels.
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