In the golden twilight of Outer Harbour the Japanese flagged ‘Firmament Ace’ rests before its next port of call. This two hundred meter long, sixty thousand tonne vessel was build for just one job, to carry new vehicles internationally, protected from the harsh ocean environment. With a dry weight carrying capacity of over seventeen thousand […]
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Spend a little time at Outer Harbour watching the container ships being unloaded and you realise our huge reliance on trade and shipping. For the most part this great machine goes unnoticed. The ships often seen as silhouette curiosities as they move up and down our gulf far from shore don’t really convey their importance. […]
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I was originally photographing a gorgeous Outer Harbour sunset when I happened to looked behind and saw this.
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For miles all around these two blue giraffe like structures dominate the landscape. As a child, cranes were all about building things and for a long while, just seen from a distance, I was puzzled why nothing seemed to grow taller around any of the Outer Harbour cranes What where they building? Eventually I ventured […]
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I watched the dappled gold light of sunset on the choppy water for some time wondering how I could capture the feel and texture there. With shutter too fast I got a frozen ice look, too slow and it was a mushy blur. With aperture too wide there was no depth to the image, too […]
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