Sailing back home from our holiday cruise around the Mediterranean on the P&O liner Arcadia we were passing through the Bay of Biscay in a force 9 gale when all of sudden the captain comes on the tannoy to tell us that we were passing the venerable ocean liner QE2, heading in the opposite direction.
A mad rush to the portside promenade deck, along with 2,000 other passengers, gave this impressive view of the QE2 ploughing through the rough Atlantic waters.
I thought about fitting a longer lens onto my camera, and zooming in really close, but then I thought again that my photo would be more meaningful if I showed a relatively small ship in a relatively large ocean.
After, all, that's how the QE2 looked to us from a distance of a couple of miles. Rather fragile in the face of so much angry water.
Filename - ship qe2 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 105mm
Exposure - 1/125sec @ f8, ISO100
Location - Somewhere in the Bay of Biscay
This image - 800x450px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Hand held exposure with lens stabilisation.
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