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| I see Coquet Mouth has lost her original crane, looks like an old crawler crane now. |
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| Good to see the old girl still exists-
memories from early 70s on the coquet at Amble.The original crane has gone though. thanks for the great photo |
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| Saw This one dredge the marina when I was a lad.
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| I worked on the Coquetmouth for several years during the mid to late 80's.origional crane was a priestman.We dregded the east coast of Scotland for three years as she was small enough to get into places like Whitehills, Montrose Arbroath and Helmsdale. She would weather a force 8 laden with 300 tonnes of mud with 3 inch of free board. I know i was there!! Andy |
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King George Dock and River Humber |
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King George Dock, Hull |
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| This shot was taken at full zoom from Alexandandra Dock entrance across to King George Dock entrance. I would guess at the distance to be over a mile. This accounts for the darkness of the image but overall I think I did well capture this image at all. |
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Howdendyke, Goole Docks and the Trent Wharves. |
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| Mike,
Very nice pictures from my ship.
Best regards
Rob |
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| hallo rob ze word een beetje roestig .groetjes philippe |
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Thanks to Jimmy Christie and Patrick Hill for confirming this as the LADYBIRD. She is an ex-RN Insect Class Fleet Tender. She was built in 1973 by C D Holmes at their Beverley Yard. She was used as an armaments carrier.
Albert & WmWright Dock, King George Dock |
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| Mick,
pretty sure this is Ladybird. She listed on humber.com as being in Wm Wright dock and is also shown on Equasis as having been sold for scrap!!
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| www.gogibraltarsite.com
Check out the RMAS site, as well as other shipping, whats the chance of getting the pic of Ladybird to put on my site 800 x 600 (credit will be given)
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| RMAS LADYBIRD A253 NAVAL ARMAMENTS CARRIER WAS AT DEVONPORT DOCKYARD AT THE END OF 1999. I BELEVE IT IS STILL ABOUT. A SISTER SHIP NAMED GNAT COULD ALSO HAVE BEEN BUILT. |
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Goole Docks, River Trent and WmWright Dock, Hull |
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| We were passing through WHITGIFT I believe when I spotted the running light of this vessel. We quickly pulled over but had already passed it. It got a few shots off and this was the best composed of those.
I have posted it here because one of Rix's apprentice's, Matty Finn is a regular visitor to this site and I had promised that I would get some shots of the ' Falcon for him.
The visit to Goole was a little impromptu anyway so I didn't have any time to contact Matty about his sailing schedule.
Matty, hope you enjoy this shot. Mail me and i'll send you the others :) |
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River Humber |
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| Mick, this split hopper barge was the MVA (Mega Volts Amps )and was built for fly ash dumping from Blyth Power Station. |
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River Humber, King and Alexandra Docks |
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| Does anybody else notice the resemblence between this funnel and the one of the J Lauritsen vessels - the Danish 'Dan' vessels?
Perhaps there is a connection between the companies? |
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River Humber and King George Dock |
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| Looks like alan pratts 'nipashore' |
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River Humber and Hull Docks |
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| This is Steve, the owner of the DRAGONFLY. He runs river trips from the Admirals Steps on the Hull Pier and also does Parascending from his vessel. If you are about and have a chance to go on the DRAGONFLY, then don't miss it. It's a real experience! |
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Vasiliy Burkhanov at KGD |
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| You nearly got all of me in this shot Mick,mines the body and pair of legs in the distance with the yellow lock gate warning board on my shoulders,Nice Pics! |
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River Humber and Hull Docks |
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| These are the old offices of the ELLERMAN-WILSON shipping line.
They were a major shipping line back in the day and finally ceased trading back in 1983 I beleive. Many of there vessels ran the trade routes around the world and from Hull to many European ports.
Some of you will remember such vessels as the BORODINO that ran a liner service from the Riverside Quay here at Albert Dock. Also the SPERO that ran from the old Ro-Ro terminal at Alexandra Dock during the 1960's.
These buildings are now used by the Viking FM and Magic 1161 radio stations as well as being used as a pub/workingmens club and offices.
At the rear of this building is the old Railway Dock that closed in 1968 and re-opened in 1983 as the extension to the Hull Marina. |
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| This is why I like B&W so much. The tones on this really make this everyday ordinary barge look something quite different altogether.
When the lighting is bad and it is washing out the colour in everything why no go the whole hog so to say and just run with B&W?
It seems that i'm the only one in the area doing ship photo's in B&W. I guess you saw it here first! |
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Cruise Ship FUNCHAL at KGD, Hull |
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| The Rix Falcon inbound for the Old Harbour |
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| Quite right matty. I'd just renamed a whole photo set without checking on each one individually. The crewman in the foreground is on the Funchal though :) |
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| Would this be the "Falcon" that has the desperate misfortune to be skippered on occasions by the "Beast of Barmston" and earl of Bridlington the one and only Colin Featheringhaugh Tomlinson.
Doubtless you are all aware of the dubious character of the aforesaid, none moreso than me who grew up with him from childhood however there is redemption for all so there is hope.
An ex Trinity House brat. |
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Spurn Point and Humber Approaches |
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| Who are these two dodgy geezers? Apparently there is a reward out for two fellas who pretend to be shipspotters.
Answers on the back of a £10 note please :) |
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Spurn Point and Humber Approaches |
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| This effect was created with the use of a 300mm Mirror Lens. It was slight defocused to allow the shimmering sun on the shoreline to turn into these doughnut shapes. The shape comes from the mirror in the centre of the lens blocking the light.
Mirror lenes are useful in that they allow a large focal length lens to be effectively folded to that of one around 1/3rd of its size.
My 300mm Mirror lens is around the same length as a 35-70mm zoom lens although it is considerably wider. Mirror lenses are also of a fixed aperture - this one being f5.6. To alter the amount of light entering the lens they are also usually supplied with Neutral Density (ND) or grey filters in 0-Stop 1-Stop and 2-Stop strengths. |
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King George Dock and River Humber |
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| this heavy lift barge was used to salvage the skagern in kgd after the collision in the humber owned by titan salvage plymouth |
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King George Dock and River Humber |
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| are you aware that this vessel was formely owned by rix shipping sold as beyound economic repair to russian federation shipping company former name liz /lea rix |
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GUEST GALLERY - Ships at Immigham and other places |
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| Hi can you tell me the name of this barge thanks geoff c |
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GUEST GALLERY - Ships at Immigham and other places |
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| HI can you tell me the name of this barge thanks geoff c |
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Cruise Ship FUNCHAL leaves Hull |
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| the unknown tendar is b/j |
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| the owners of this litte work boat/ tug ih hughes marine |
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| HI THAT TUG IS 760 IT USED TO BE OWED BY KBMASON |
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King George Dock - (Kapitan Kuroptev Inwards) |
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| Nice pics of the Falcon Mick
It wasen't my shift otherwise I would have given you a wave.
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| hi could you tell me if RIX FALCON has been withdrawn by rix if so do you know where she is now thanks geoff c |
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Goole, the River Ouse and the Trent |
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| Mick,
This is the Kovera - name is in cyrillic on the bow. |
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| Many thanks Patrick. I didn't realise this was a Cyrillic name. |
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Polish Bulker POWSTANIEC LISTOPADOWY at KGD |
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| This shot is slightly hazy due to having been taken with a small amount of Digital Zoom applied. I hate digital zoom but if it gets the job done what the heck? |
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Vessels at the Humber Bridge |
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| This is your average shipspotter. This individual was enaged in looking for his Elephant Gun and Pithhat at the time. The sun had gotten to him somewhat hence the stupid look on his face |
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Mahinabank at KGD |
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| Sorry... this is the OAK and obviously not the MAHINABANK which is featured elsewhere in this collection. |
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UNDEN at SE Corner Albert Dock, Hull |
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| bill in crane tony in shovel good photos |
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UNDEN at SE Corner Albert Dock, Hull |
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| great photos nice to see keep them coming mate |
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Humber Shipping from the early 1990s |
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| This is the ex-ABP HULL tug WYKE. She is from the 1960's I believe and was a regular feature of the corner of Queen Elizabeth Dock along with the Humber Guardian. I beleive that she was used for gneral maintenance and surveying on the river. This shot was taken around 1990/1.
She has since disappeared and I would be interested to know of here current whereabouts. |
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Humber Shipping earlier this week. |
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| This shot was taken as a test with my new dSLR.
The lens used was a CHINON f1.7 50mm. Stopped down to 1.7 the depth of field is incrediby narrow and allows shots like this to be taken where the water droplets are in sharp focus yet the back ground only 2 inches back is thrown out of focus. This was my itention all along.
The new dSLR has opened up so many other opportunities for me. I am hoping to move into night photography (when I have time) and macro photography (when I have funds enough for the Pentax 100mm macro lens).
If you have a collection of Pentax K-mount equipment already, you could do a lot worse than to invest in an *ist DL or a Samsung GX-1L. Personally i'm loving mine already. |
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KGD and elsewhere |
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| This evil looking critter landed on the handrail on the dockside. He stayed around for quite while giving us time enough to get some shots of him.
Unfortunately I do not have any true Macro lenses as yet so it's not as good as I wanted but nonetheless it turned out quite ok I think? |
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KGD and elsewhere |
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| Careful when on the docks. The buggers are watching you!
Must be enthralling watching shipsotters on the CCTV. Almost as good as watching the paint dry or the grass grow. |
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COQUET MOUTH on the River Hull |
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| Dear Mr. Evans,
I would like to have a possibility to get some photous of "Coquet Mouth" from your site.
What shall I do to get it?
With best regards,
Leonid. |
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River Humber |
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| They really don't want us around do they? |
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| That's the feeling that I get.
Apparently it is to stop people from going on the lock gates when they are in operation. If that was so why didn't they put in a small automatic barrier like the one at the Marina?
Funny thing is. Despite so many of us having had our photographic passes revoked for H&S reasosns, there are still some people around who have them because they know the right people. Also there are numerous people still wanderuing around the docks with camera's who go unchallenged by Profile Security.
Talk about one rule for one and one rule for the others. |
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2006-10-06 19:33:49 |
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| I'm quite please to be able to present this shot to you.
I had set up my gear on the riverfront directly opposit New Holland. It is a distance of at least a mile and possibly a bit further still. The day was overcast and had followed some showers earlier so the air was clear and crisp.
My gear for this shots was my SAMSUNG GX-1L (6.1 MP) dSLR. I used this mounted on a Manfrotto Monopod with a swivel head for stability. The lens was a 300mm K-mount Paraagon with an Ozeck 2x converter. Taking everything into account, the lens focal length amounted to around 900mm. Hence the need for the monopod.
As the lens used is fully manual it doesn't pass any EXIF data to the finished file but I can tell you it was stopped down to f8 to make it a little sharper. The shutter speed was 1/1000 sec so as to lessen camera shake at such an extreme focal length.
What I like about the lens is the fact that it cost me something like £6 at auction. It's not a lens for all though as it has a preset aperture meaning that you have to focus initially and then manually stop down the lens to take a meter reading. It weighs a ton as well being something like 1kg on it's own not counting the camera body.
Was it worth it? You betch. Who else has posted such a close shot of the RMAS Arrochar from that side of the river? |
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| This is the crane barge PANURGIC II (owned by Hughes Marine and skippered by Dean Hughes).
Shot with a late 60's Meyer Orestor 135mm/2.8 lens on a Samsung GX-1L (6.1 MP) camera. I just love this lens to bits.
It is an M42 mount lens fitted with an M42>K adaptor. The lens does not have an automatic aperture and instead relies on a manual (preset) aperture that has be stopped down by hand before shooting. As it is not automatic the makers were able to include substantially more aperture blades than an auto lens (this has 15 blades) and as such the aperture is almost pefectly round at all aperture settings and give really nice out of focus highlights. There are no steps on the aperture between f#'s so it is silky smooth to operate.
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River Humber and RSQ |
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| Who's that handsome devil walking the spring line round the quay,ah yes that would be me.Nice shots Mick,Annuity had just sat on Riverside Quay to Gas Free before proceeding into the dock and of course had to wait for Kommandor Stuart to leave Albert. |
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River Humber and RSQ |
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| Nice shot of Kommandor Stuart leaving the lock,just see my car under her bow.The reason she took a turn in the square before entering the lock was to carry out Compass Adjusting,she then proceeded to Riverside Quay for some dockworkers and crew to disembark then she sailed about 15 mins later.I wanted some open water shots of her but was busy berthing the Annuity when she sailed,I tried to get some of her from Riverside Quay as she came out the dock but my camera just kept saying 'Error',ah well.I got a few of her in the dock so will post them to my site at a later date.Speak soon Mick ;-) |
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| I wondered if it was compass adjusting. Thought better though as i've only seen them do it out on the river. I guess they use GPS for calibrating these days instead of landmarks. |
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| Believe it or not this image was taken with a camera phone. A Sony Ericsson K800i. I was quite impressed at how it peformed. Certainly not upto dSLR standards but quite acceptable all the same. I guess it may come in handy for those moments when i'm out sans camera. |
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| Great web site.... and interesting pictures.. like the way you choose not to just do 3/4 perfect view... and take interesting angles and industrial lanscapes.. and sequences
keep it up.. |
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| Many thanks for the comment. I do try to be a bit different with my shots and I have been trying to develop my own signature style of photography. It can sometimes be difficult to come up with something original especially as it is a subject that has been so many times before by so many others. |
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| This was shot over a distance of some 5 miles or so. I was on the riverfront coming up to the old Victoria Dock Basin when the SACURA left King.
For this shot I used my k-mount 300mm f5.6 Paragon Telephoto lens coupled to a Super Ozeck 2x convertor. This was also shot handheld with just a little support from the guard rail along the riverfront.
It's not a perfect shot by any means but knowing the circumstances under which it was taken, it makes it a bit more special. In the near future I shall be looking to replace the old Paragon 300 with a SIGMA 135-400 f2.8, i'm just waiting on the funds right now! |
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| Here's a sight that one will never ever see again. Trawlers leaving the bullnose at St. Andrews Dock headed for the distant water fishing grounds. Fancy spending three weeks in the arctic on this? They were brave men every last one of them. |
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BIGMA ! |
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| I like this shot. I like it a lot.
I do wish that I had waited another second or so and gotten some space between the stern of the tug and the buoy. The original image was a bit of a washout due to the bright lighting combined with the heavy mist that was around.
Using Photoshop v6.00 I turned it black and white with the aid of the channel mixer and it's really given this image a great lease of life.
What do you think? |
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I Saw Three Ships ...... and then they were gone! |
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| There is a lot of noise on this image which was caused by shooting in the dense fog. The moisture in the air makes it look like film grain from a fast film (iso 1600 ~ 3200).
Whilst this is not intended and not normally tolerated in digital imaging I think it adds to the atmosphere of the final image.
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Paull foreshore |
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| I just love this shot. We were watching her passing and the wind caught her superstructure. She started to lean quite impressively. The image doesn't show it at it's fullest extent but she went so far over I didn't thing she was gonna come back. |
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Paull foreshore |
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| This was taken with a Tamron SP 500mm Solid "Cat"adioptric lens in conjunction with a 2x convertor. With the 1.5x crop factor of the camera the lens wroks out at an equivalent focal length of 1500mm !
It's bugger to focus but is really nice when it is correctly focused. |
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Hull Pier |
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| One of my favourite haunts for shipspotting. The pier affords really great views of the River Humber and is an ideal place to see vessels that ply the upper reaches of the Humber.
Notice how quiet it is? Come summertime I on't be able to get on here for bloody tourists who think they have more of a right to be here than me.
I should have brought a recliner and a towel and staked my place early like the German's do when on holiday :) |
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Hull Pier |
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| (sings incoherently) ....... dum de dum de dum ...... me and my shaaa-dow! |
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River Humber form KGD Viewpoint |
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| Products tanker LAS CUEVAS headed for SEJ3 assisted by a pair of Adsteam Tugs.
This image is a 100% crop from the center of an image. It's not ideal but it give you an idea of the weather and the some of the bigger types of vessels operating in the humber. |
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River Humber |
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| Rotten bow section of an old barge on the riverfront at Vivtoria Dock estate. This is at the location of the former Albert Draper Shipbreaking yard and prior to that many years ago it was Earles Shipbuilding yard. |
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Aleksandr Nevskiy on River Humber |
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| The vessel on the left is STENA TRANSFER with PAULINE on the right. |
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Aleksandr Nevskiy on River Humber |
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| This is my first effort at a split Colour/Monochrome image. It's not perfect and I need to perfect it a little but I thought it was a nice try. Let me know what you think? |
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Victoria Dock and Riverfront |
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| This was one of my attempts at being artistic. Hmmm.... What do you think? |
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Victoria Dock and Riverfront |
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| I don't like this image much but posted it because some people may be interested to see the state of disrepair down on Alex Dock front.
The lens used for this image was the Tamron Adaptall-2 28mm / f2.5 02B. This is the first time i've used this lens and whilst it's a nice enough lens it suffers badly from flare and looks as though it needs a deep lens hood to combat this. I guess this lens will stay at home whilst the Pentax SMC-M 28/3.5 will continue to be my go-to 28 for the forseable future. Pity though as the extra stop could have been useful. |
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King George Dock and River Humber |
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| PEYO YAVOROV.
Port of Registry VARNA ~ Bulgaria |
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King George Dock and River Humber |
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| ALEKSANDR SUVOROV is part of the russian northen fleet based at Murmansk on the White Sea.
Notice the icebreaker bows that she has for navigating those northern waters. The bow does not cut into the ice as the ship does not have enough momentum to do that. Rather it allows the ships bow to ride up on top of the ice and the weight bearing down on it breaks the ice and the hull form then pushe it aside. |
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King George Dock early morning |
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King George Dock early morning |
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| These are just off the end of the East Jetty at King George Dock. I'm not altogether sure what they are but the end one seems to have some gauges on it. My best guess is that it is a remote weather and depth monitoring station.
Any further information about it would be appreciated. |
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FSU FED-2 |
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| My 1960 Western Master IV lightmeter. Talk about old school! |
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River Humber and KG Dock, Hull |
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| Taken with a Samsung GX-1L and Pentax Sigma 50-500mm lens @ 115mm. Exposure was 1/400th sec @ f11. I exposed for the cloud highlights and then in post-processing adjusted levels in Adobe Photoshop Elements v4.0
This image was shot in Pentax Raw (.PEF), converted to Adobe Digital Negative (.DNG) for archival and processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements v4.0 as 16-bit / Channel Depth
...... White Balance left as shot
...... Exposure, Shadows, Brightness & Contrast adjusted for best possible settings
...... Spotted for sensor dust using Spot Healing Brush
...... Horizon leveled out using grid and image cropped accordingly.
Processed from Two RAW files. One with exposure corrected for the Sky and the other with exposure corrected for the Vessel and the River. Pasted together as two separate layers and then part of the top layer erased to show the show the darker sky. |
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River Humber and KG Dock, Hull |
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| This one was edited in Photoshop Elements v4.0
As shot the tug was brightly coloured but the background was slightly muted. I created a second layer from the image and then turned it to grayscale. Using the eraser I peeled away the top layer to reveal the colour underneath. When i was happy with what I had done I then merged the layers to end up with the final image.
The B&W effect is quite subtle but show the HT Sabre in a great light. |
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River Humber and KG Dock, Hull |
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| The 'Connie' is no longer the Connie as we knew her.
After escaping taking an Adsteam name she has finally succumbed and is now the 'Svitzer Constance'.
Will the Ladies ever return to the Humber? Probably not, and here endeth a dynasty that has lasted since the 1920's.
IRC, I think it was Piggots of Grimsby that first brought the Lady tugs to the Humber. |
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River Humber and Alexandra Dock |
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| I dont know,wheres the shots of me grafting away...I'll never prove to our lass that I do actually do some work,lol.
Nice pics Mick ;-) |
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HMS Bounty departs |
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River Humber from Hull Pier |
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| hi enjoyed your photos but you have this one wrong it is not the swenderby Im an old riverman from the 60,s its one of old Cook,s boats name of a bird by D |
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River Humber from Hull Pier |
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| Swinderby and David-W are two different ships--Swiderby was built at New Holland, David-W was Yorkshire Dry Dock |
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Kingston Upon Hull |
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| This was formerly the Edwin Davis store in Bond Street |
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| This was formerly the Edwin Davis store in Bond Street |
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