coming back from the melbourne short film festival - the sunset on the wreck was too good to miss

River Leven, Dumbarton

Voigtlander 35mm f2.5 VM Color-Skopar P II lens adapted for a Fujifilm X-T1 camera.

F/8.0

1/220 sec

ISO 200

Solheimasandur, Iceland

Dive site :- Wreck Point, Layang-Layang, Malasia.

Taken at a depth of 15.4 metres.

The Wreck of Edros iii, Coral Bay, Cyprus.

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Wreck ...

The Old wreck and the Toll Bridge at Shoreham by sea under a nice sunset. Lancing college in the distance.

Edro III

Pin Mill on the Orwell estuary, Suffolk

A revisited photo from the first month I ever started using a DSLR. The camera was a Nikon D500 (12mp) and I knew very very little about anything. This shot was taken at Wrabness and I really loved this old wreck and in particular the way I processed the image made it very dark and moody mainly because the day was grey and overcast. So I reprocessed it in PS for the first time tonight and just updated the sharpening best I could and did a little luminosity masking and if you pixel peep you can see some noise but printed on paper for instance at 20 inches it would still hold its own, this made it on my calendar for 2019 and is the only image from my old D000 still on my website :-)

Low light landscape shot

And so the first ever pilgrimage to the land of Ice and Fire has come to an end as I find myself with a frightening number of raw files to pore over, discard, keep, process, and furrow my brow at in the coming weeks.

1100 miles around the ring road in a yellow VW camper van named Brian, with a detour here and there was always going to be a challenge, but one I will remember happily as we plan another slightly more target specific visit in a couple of years from now. The plane wreck was the penultimate stop on our travels, and despite arriving there after most of the crowds had left, a persistent drift of stragglers wandering over the fuselage and into the scene brought many a distraction, despite the long exposure time ghosting them out of the image.

The United States Navy Douglas Dakota crashed here in November 1973, and thankfully all of the crew survived the accident. Visitors can pay a truly Icelandic fare to board a bus from the car park and make the 4 mile return journey or they can walk or cycle to the wreck. It was a bit of a surprise at around 8pm to find a wedding party arrive on foot, with a particularly fetching bride in a white gown clambering onto the wing to be photographed beside the lucky groom. As the group swarmed over the scene we decided to move on and head for Skogafoss.

This was a ship carrying asylum seekers in 2013. People searching for a safer and better life, for greener pastures. What did they go through to get to this ship, what did they go through on the journey across? What happened when they landed because it is not easy getting off that beach. It is sort of in the middle of nowhere so which direction did they go in this hard harsh environment.? Where are they now? Have they found greener pastures?

The Portlairge wreck in Wexford. Infrared image converted to B&W

The Diabaig wreck again.

Back to infrared this Sunday with another shot of the old boat wrecks at Fleetwood in Lancashire.

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7.5 Miles Wrecked oh and a shipwreck to

The first thing that came to mind when I saw this wreck in an otherwise empty lot was texting. Now texting may or may not have caused this damage but it's important regardless. People please, please, please don't text and drive.

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Bahamas

I visited this famous location for the first time on a quick jaunt to the west coast in February. What had started as a sunny day began to cloud over so there was a somewhat diffused, soft light over the scene. Ben Nevis was looking good under a dusting of snow. The tides had dumped lots of driftwood around the wreck.

A B&W of the SS Nornen on Berrow Sands. I'm not sure this has worked as well as I hoped it might.

Amidst the fragments of what was once whole, a sense of being wrecked pervades the landscape of emotions. It's as if the world has tilted, leaving us unmoored and adrift amidst the debris of heartache and loss. The echoes of memories reverberate, haunting the spaces between shattered dreams. But within this wreckage lies the potential for renewal, a chance to rebuild amidst the ruins. Just as the phoenix rises from its ashes, the journey from being wrecked to finding strength is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, a reminder that even in the midst of despair, there's a flicker of hope waiting to be ignited.

MT Hephaestus Wreck - Xatt L’Ahmar - Gozo Island Malta

Wreck of the Norwegian barque SS Nornen. March 1897, the ship's crew of ten, together with their dog, were taken off by the lifeboat the John Godfrey Morris, launched from Burnham, and landed safely at three o'clock in the afternoon. The rescue is recorded on the honours board of rescues made by the three lifeboats at Burnham during the period from 1867 to 1930 and which today stands in the entrance to the Burnham RNLI Station.

The same sad scene; not sure why the wreckage is still here.

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The rather eerie remains of the trawler Epine, wrecked on Djupalonssandur beach, Snaefellsnes peninsula, Iceland in 1948. The remains of the trawler are still scattered across this beach over 70 years later.

I believe 14 men drowned and 5 were rescued (just had a quick check - there’s an interesting official report into the wrecking here, it’s the pdf at the bottom ):

www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?153223

both photos of were took by me and blended in photoshop, the wreck is in plymouth which nick kindly showed me the other night

One from the archives!

A wreck of a fishing boat MV Dayspring with Ben Nevis in the Background

I liked the Gulls making use of this wreck in Portsmouth Harbour

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In 1973 a United States Navy DC plane ran out of fuel and crashed on the black beach at Sólheimasandur.

Now known as The Corpach Wreck, the MV Dayspring ran aground near the Corpach Sea Lock in December 2011 after breaking her mooring during a storm. She triggered an air sea search in 2017 when her emergency beacon was triggered, even though she had lain on the beach for several years.

Now known as The Corpach Wreck, the MV Dayspring ran aground near the Corpach Sea Lock in December 2011 after breaking her mooring during a storm. She triggered an air sea search in 2017 when her emergency beacon was triggered, even though she had lain on the beach for several years.

One that I've been processing for a while now :) Quite often photographed shipwreck located between Arrecife and Costa Teguise in Lanzarote. Visited this place a few times during my little holliday until I've got what I wanted :) This was shot at a sunset during high tide and was a 180 second exposure. As always thank you all for looking and all the comments and constructive criticism are more than welcome as usual :)

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Woodbridge, Suffolk England

Homebush Bay wrecks, well 1 of them anyway. This is a reworking of an older pic, just wanted to give it the topaz treatment, see how it worked out. cheers

Late evening on Newburgh beach, Forgot to change the ISO

A wonderful boat wreck

Bahamas

Yesterday morning as it was high tide at Fleetwood, I had a ride out to the fishing wrecks to see if I could capture anything.

A wreck resting on Truro River.

This morning was grey and overcast. The light was flat and uninspiring. I had to work much harder to take a decent photo, but the benefit of the overcast sky were that conditions were constant for hours - not just a fleeting moment as the sun came up.

I first stopped at Kennall Vale - but uninspired there, I didn't take a single photo. Next I visited a woods close to my home that I've never been to before (pic to follow!)

Then, I remembered noticing this characterful boat tied up on Truro River while driving for work last week - so that's where I headed!

I envisaged a minimal shot in high contrast Black & White. I tried a higher vantage point to angle the camera down at the boat to eliminate the messy river bank opposite - which didn't really work. This lower angle was more natural, but left me more to do in post editing!

A 10 stop neutral density filter allowed me to extend the exposure time to 90 seconds in order to smooth our the water for a minimal shot. I faded out the opposing bank in post to give the appearance of mist and further simplify the image.

Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 24mm | ƒ/11 | 90 sec | ISO 100 | Lee Big Stopper (taken 07-04-2019)

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Old fishing boats, Salen, Isle Of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland.

Slipped her moorings somewhere and ended up on the hard Lytham beach.

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