A container ship dwarfs the pier where Spike Island tours have their office at Cobh.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Tag Archives: ship
Wisdom Visits Cork
In 2018, a ship called WISDOM visited Cork. Which is odd because this site says the ship was renamed, “Jasmine Scan”, in 2012. Apparently, it’s now called “WARTHOG” and bears a striking orange colour that’ll be hard to miss.
If you were ever nostalgic for the old R&H Hall building, it’s here too. Must be loads of photos of that place taken by loads of people over the years. I’d love to see some from when it was actually being used.
| Aperture | ƒ/9 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 28mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/80s |
Loading the containers
Loading a container ship in Malaga Harbour. The sun has already set but there’s a lovely glow in the sky!
Trying something new this time. You’ll probably have the visit the site to get the full effect. I’ll be uploading these images to Instagram shortly.
As before, these images were cut up with the convert command:
convert input.jpg -crop 3x1@ out-%02d.jpg| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 212mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1s |
Elisabeth Leaves Cork
The container ship Elisabeth left Cork yesterday at 17:19 on its way to Southampton in the UK. Here it is rounding the bend by Blackrock Castle as it heads into the harbour and out to sea.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 240mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/320s |
The Jewel of the Seas in Cobh
The Jewel of the Seas, a gigantic cruise liner operated by Royal Caribbean left Cobh in Co Cork yesterday. The Cobh Confraternity Band played music while she undocked and set off.
Looking up at this enormous ship makes you feel like insignificant. The decks extend up into the sky and she left the harbour quickly and smoothly.
| Camera | SM-G998B |
| Focal length | 2.2mm |
Christian Radich in Cork Harbour
The Christian Radich is a beautiful sailing ship that’s in Cork Harbour this weekend. I took advantage of a foggy morning to get some photos of it and the surrounding docklands.
Christian Radich is a Norwegian full-rigged ship, named after a Norwegian shipowner. The vessel was built at Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937. The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation established by a grant from an officer of that name. Wikipedia
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 47mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/4s |
Dunbrody, New Ross
Hold Her Steady
A ship tied up at the quay in Kinsale, Co. Cork last year. The vessel was mostly deserted but we saw revellers boarding it regularly, walking around the deck and then off again!
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 10mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1.3s |
Happy on the Köln
A very happy crew member of the Köln when she docked in Cork in 2005.
Now that I’ve archived my photo collection to DVD (only 41 DVDs for 2009 so far!) I’m converting RAW files to Jpeg to reduce the insane storage requirements of 179GB of data for 2009 alone. As an example, I squashed 2GB of RAW files to high quality Jpeg files that only took up 362MB. I’ve saved over 20GB so far and I’ve only started. 🙂
It is risky having only one copy of the RAW files on DVD but I haven’t yet deleted the files from my backup drives. The plan is to make duplicate DVD copies of each year, and then every year or more likely every 2 years make another 2 copies of each disc. Or use a Bluray burner if they’re available.
Or use a hard disk, I suspect that the disk capacity I need will probably come close to the cost of a spindle of high quality DVD discs.
Me paranoid? Not paranoid enough.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 160mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
Thumbs up for Comandante João Belo
Members of the crew of the F480 Comandante João Belo as the ship was known in 2005. In 2008 it was sold to Uruguay, with official transfer on 8th April 2008, renamed ROU-01 URUGUAY.
| Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 45mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
F211 – Fregatte Köln
The Fregatte Köln docked in Cork Harbour in 2005. Glorious day for a photowalk!
| Aperture | ƒ/3.5 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 18mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/1600s |
Eyes on Fregatte Köln
Crewmen on the Fregatte Köln when it visited Cork in 2005 kept a close eye on me, Ryan and AJ as we photographed every inch of the ship we could see.
Looking back over these photos reminds me that this was the day the cheap memory card I used at the time failed on me and I lost a number of fairly decent shots.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 300mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |