søndag 5. november 2017

Nice lens mounted on that old Rolleiflex!

I was here just a few weeks ago, at the Fitjar island a bit down south and western part of the country of Norway. I always seem to find myself somewhere along the coast line by the way. This time we were laid up with the ship for about a week in between a couple of jobs. It was somewhat boring, to tell the truth. Got a couple of snaps done with the Rolleiflex though, so that would still mean it was good for something. 
I sort of like the one with the collection of abandoned road signs for some reason, to be honest. I might even find out why some day for all we know. 

 A tiny jungle of roadsigns leaned towards a steel wall. Looking at them now I can see a couple of them fitting rather well inside the engine room of the ship. I'm glad I didn't see that possibility that day, after all :))

We had a couple of other ships laid up alongside the same quay at the time. They've been there for a while, I think. Bad times for the industry, you know. 
As we were parked here for a bit of time my engine crew was appointed to take a good daily inspection round on board the two other ships as well, just to act as a support for the guys who usually have to drive for a couple of hours to get the rather small job done. 
The outer one of the two ships were a breeze to go through. The inner one not so. Not at all, as it happens. You will not believe me if I started to talk about it anyway, so I leave it be. 
Let's just say you're never completely all alone on board that one... Freaky thing, it was for sure!


A couple of snaps taken with the Rolleiflex, obviously with the aperture thing more or less fully open just to add some separation inside the frames. Seems like I missed the exposure a bit. I think the faster shutter times on that thing is a bit slow to be honest, but I've never got it checked or anything. At least it's getting a tiny bit better when adding a yellow filter as I did here. 

3 kommentarer:

  1. Great shots - the light in the last one is lovely. Your eye was certainly 'in' that day, Roy :)

    SvarSlett
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    1. Thank you Mucho, Michael :)
      I know, I know... I'm very much behind on everything with this blog... as expected, to be honest. We might see a bit more of it in the months to come, as I at least seemed to manage talking the IT dept. into a deal with the google stuff. We still have to see if it will happen, of course.
      Now off to read a few blog posts from the last couple of months before I start on my own stuff, with my own words and all that sorts. You know...!

      Slett
  2. Good news about the Internet, Roy - hopefully those 0s and 1s will just appear somewhere inside the Subsea Viking one day soon when you aren't even expecting them to. And then normal service can be resumed...

    SvarSlett

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