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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 :)
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 ):
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
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.
Big storm on the Central Coast a few years ago. Two boats washed ashore that morning. One was smashed to smithereens under the pier. This one was about 200 ft west of the pier.
I visited this wreck in Wrabness Essex 3 years ago and took a series of images i was very happy with at the time, they were very dark and moody with heavy overcast clouds. I vowed to return one day and try and capture a sunrise image that would do this scene justice. Well i'm so happy to have captured this amazing sunrise with the wreck looking glorious in the golden light. Sometimes all the cosmic tumblers fall into place for one precious moment of photographic joy. This is x5 shot HDR image @f11 with a 0.6 medium grad filter. This image will definitely be on next years calendar for sure.
Here's a colour version of my shot of the RMS Mulheim wreck posted a little while back! I'd be interested to hear which you prefer!
A LITTLE ABOUT THE MULHEIM WRECK...
German cargo ship, the RMS Mulheim, carrying scrap car plastic ran aground in March 2003. Investigations revealed that the chief officer on watch at the time had caught his trousers in the lever of his chair when trying to get up, causing him to fall and rendering him unconscious. By the time he regained consciousness, RMS Mülheim was bearing down on the shoreline. The six-man Polish crew were airlifted to safety by a search and rescue helicopter from RNAS Culdrose. On 7 October 2003, in heavy seas, the ship was broken into two pieces. On 31 October 2003, the swells pushed half of the wreck into a rocky inlet called Castle Zawn where it now rests.
Source: Wikipedia (more info there)
Copyright Andrew Hocking 2018
just a short boat ride away
Canadian Shield meets the shoreline
www.gbbr.ca/kids-nature-news/the-canadian-shield-rocks/
summer vacation, Georgian Bay
I was out for a walk yesterday evening in this rarely visited forest when I stumbled across this wrecked car. In the vicinity there was a vehicle ramp and a very small shed. It would appear that someone had been using this as some sort of outdoor garage which is most strange. The light was diminishing fast so I was lucky enough to get this shot, happy days
The wreck of HMAS Gayundah at Woody Point, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. This ship was built at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1884 for the Australian Navy & sailed to Australia to start its working life. Long exposure image.
In my previous photo today I mentioned that this wreck is actually the "Pon Rabbel II", a dredge that was used to clear the Tamar River of silt from the 1920s to the 1960s. The fire in 1979 seemed to have put an end to any serious revival of the Port of Launceston, and this wreck has remained here ever since. www.dredgepoint.org/dredging-database/equipment/ponrabbel-ii
I was delighted to find a Facebook group dedicated to some of this history and I'll give you a few outlines from their findings: www.facebook.com/pg/ponrabble/posts/
"The Ponrabbel operated as a steam 'bucket dredge' in the Tamar River from the 1920s until the 1960s. The Port of Launceston authority was determined that as many ships as possible should berth at wharves close to the city centre." This changed once the decision was made to move the cargo berthing to Bell Bay where the Tamar is much wider and deeper so it can accommodate modern cargo ships.
"The Ponrabbel was used to dredge the channel near Launceston to facilitate shipping access. As larger ships were brought into the Tamar some strategic rocks in the Tamar were blasted and removed by the Ponrabbel to improve navigation. She was also used in the building of the Bell Bay berthing facilities. Albeit that commercial shipping barely persists in the upper reaches of the Tamar, the silting of the estuary 'interferes' with the waterway's aesthetics and its recreational 'utility' – and is thus seen as tourism detractor and simultaneously as evidence of environmental degradation."
In any case this wreck is now part of the "visual furniture" of this part of Launceston. And those rusty tones do look good against the green reeds and the hills of Trevallyn on the other side of the river.
Virgin Mary : Old and abandoned passenger ferry , tied at dock , half sinking in water due to prolong disuse
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...." Τους ναυτικούς, τους γέρους συλλογίζομαι
που στα μεγάλα των χειμώνων βράδια
με υπομονή κι αγάπη για τα εγγόνια τους
είτε γι' αυτούς μικρά φτιάχνουν καράβια.
Και δεν μπορούν πια να ταξιδέψουνε
μα κάθε μέρα ως το λιμάνι πάνε
κι άνεργοι, ανώφελοι και πένθιμοι
σαν κάτι τις να χάσανε κοιτάνε.............."
Format: Silver gelatin photoprint
Notes: First Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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No not me, the boat!!
One of my favourite places. It makes for quite a 'busy' photo, but this is what it's like, all crooked and jumbled, everything weathered and old, then the shiny new boats in the background. There are even some umbellifers in the foreground here, this place has it all!!
The song.....just because it's Friday night :) have a great weekend all!
Wrecked during the first days of March 1897 when a howling south westerly gale swept up the Bristol Channel.
Many ships soon found themselves in distress, among them the Norwegian barque SS Nornen which had tried to ride out the storm in the lee of the Lundy Roads but had found her anchors dragging. She was being driven towards Berrow mud flats.
When the mists cleared on the morning of March 3, the crippled ship was spotted just off Gore Sands, her sails blown to rags by the gale. Down the ramp to her aid went the Burnham lifeboat, the John Godfrey Morris.
The lifeboat with its crew of ten oarsmen battled through high seas and winds to the SS Nornen.
The ship's crew of ten, together with their dog, were taken off by the lifeboat and landed safely at Burnham. 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.
Last frosty nights exploring car wrecks with Janne Parviainen: www.flickr.com/photos/jannepaint/34147801982/in/photostream/, www.flickr.com/photos/jannepaint/33867123100/in/dateposted/. Paippinen/Paipis, Sipoo/Sibbo.