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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Ghost Ship...

Hi there,
Just put quite an interesting shot together, it's not really a shot I want to put on my website, but was a pretty interesting find. I was getting pretty close to finishing my boat on the rolling ocean
shot, (Go here to see the finished shot http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/OceanPhotography.htm ) I had the waves and the sky put together and looking nice,



The only thing I need was a good ramshackle boat, I had a real clear image in my head of the type of boat, kind of like the one in Jaws, a boat that’s seen some use, anyway, I decided to take a drive on a grey rainy day out to North Wales. After driving for quite a while and not getting very near the cost, I saw over some fields a rusting ferry, I quickly stopped my van and weaved my way through some fields and down by a stream and got really close to this rusted old passenger ferry, it was a very windy rainy day and I was the only person around, on a grey stone beach which headed out towards the miles of grey mud and then the sea, was this huge boat called the duke of Lancaster. I was kind of stumbling around trying to get a shot, slipping on the mud and falling on my ass, it was a really odd place to be alone, the wind was making all sorts of howling nose as it hit the boat. Anyways, here's the shot I got, think it gets across the atmosphere of the place



The Google earth coordinates of it are 53°18'21.11"N 3°14'14.42"W (Copy Paste these into the fly to box on google earth, see this page http://andrewbrooksphotography.com/GoogleEarth.htm on my site for some more details)

And hears what she used to look like in here heyday



Oh and I just read online that it used to be called The Fun Ship, which is kind'of strange, possably one of the least fun looking things I've ever seen...

A

1 comment:

Andrew Brooks said...

If you want to know a bit more about this boat go to this here page

http://www.hhvferry.com/dukeoflanc.html