In Photos dot Org » QE2 http://inphotos.org no photoshopped images here Thu, 24 May 2012 18:47:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Turning Circle of the QE2 http://inphotos.org/2009/01/22/turning-circle-of-the-qe2/ http://inphotos.org/2009/01/22/turning-circle-of-the-qe2/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:10:05 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=3449 Turning Circle of the QE2

The Queen Elizabeth 2 took several minutes to turn in the harbour outside Cobh in Co Cork. Plenty of spectators watching from boats as the sun started to sink behind the horizon.

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Cunard, owner of the Queen Elizabeth 2 which docked in Cobh a few weeks ago.

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Lifeboats are dotted around the The Queen Elizabeth 2. They’re high up above some of the lower decks as far as I can remember and there are plenty of them. Hopefully won’t ever be needed.

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Crowds gathered to see the Queen Elizabeth 2 off from Cobh 2 weeks ago, but they weren’t getting on board unless they had a ticket!

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The funnel of the Queen Elizabeth 2 looms over Cobh as seen from near the Commodore Hotel.

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2008/10/09/qe2-funnel-in-the-sky/feed/ 6 Queen Elizabeth 2 in Cobh http://inphotos.org/2008/10/08/queen-elizabeth-2-in-cobh/ http://inphotos.org/2008/10/08/queen-elizabeth-2-in-cobh/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:36:00 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=3028 Queen Elizabeth 2 in Cobh

The QE2 docked in Cobh last Thursday. This was shot at the bottom of steps down to the water where seaweed made footing precarious. I saw a few people venture down the steps but none went further than half way down. The tide was well out so I was maybe 3m below the quayside, standing in wet and slippery seaweed. The risks I take to get a photo!

Oh yeah, there’s already something gone bust in my new Canon 40D. The pop up flash refuses to pop up unless I prise it open with a fingernail. It tries a few times, gives up and issues an Error 99 and needs to be switched off and on. The same happened to my Canon 20D, but I’m surprised the 40D didn’t last a bit longer ..

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2008/10/08/queen-elizabeth-2-in-cobh/feed/ 4 Queen Elizabeth 2 http://inphotos.org/2008/10/06/queen-elizabeth-2/ http://inphotos.org/2008/10/06/queen-elizabeth-2/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:00:14 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=3018 Queen Elizabeth 2

Luxury cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 tied up at the quayside in Cobh, Co Cork last Thursday. This was moments before she cast off. You can see a tug in the background of this image.

It was bitterly cold down on the quay, but we were lucky that the evening sun cast a lovely golden glow over everything.

PS. some photography links: The Right Frame of Mind, Design Star, Join a stock photog on a photoshoot.
PPS. Just back from the camera club. This image came second overall in the digital section of tonight’s open photo competition. It drew with another image, on equal points. Chuffed!

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2008/10/06/queen-elizabeth-2/feed/ 4 Flying the Irish Tricolour on the QE2 http://inphotos.org/2008/10/03/flying-the-irish-tricolour-on-the-qe2/ http://inphotos.org/2008/10/03/flying-the-irish-tricolour-on-the-qe2/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:14:29 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=3008 Flying the Irish Tricolour on the QE2

The Queen Elizabeth 2 is a British ship, and it’s likely that many of the passengers were British too. I spotted one large Union Jack flag draped over a railing and people on the ship waved mini Union Jack flags too. That sort of gets under the skin of many Irish people.

A huge crowd had gathered on the quayside at Cobh. A band was playing and people cheered and waved as the ship departed. The atmosphere was great but when the Irish Tricolour appeared on the roof of the ship, being waved by a young man, the crowd let out a huge cheer, and whistled and clapped in appreciation.
They were still waving the Irish flag as the ship left the harbour. I spotted them after she turned!

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The Queen Elizabeth 2, or QE2, flagship of the Cunard Line, docked for the last time in Cobh yesterday and left this evening just after 6pm. Here she is after turning in Cork Harbour and seconds before she increased speed and left the harbour for good.

In 2009, she will become a floating hotel in Dubai. A fitting ending for a luxury ship that has plied the waters of the world for the last 39 years.

I took over 300 shots of the Queen Elizabeth 2 today and filled almost 4GB of space with RAW images. In hindsight, many of the images would have been fine as Jpeg files but I had the space, so I used it. I hope to upload a gallery of my favourite images tomorrow.

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