Tampa, Florida - Where have all the people gone?
By Ieuan Dolby | October 5, 2008
The following images were taken in Tampa, Florida on a nice day! In fact it was a Sunday at about 11am and whilst the photographs may not be anything special they do show something amazing!
As I said it is Sunday. There is a cruise ship in port! It is overcast which always helps on a hot day and well, there is something seriously missing! There are no peopel. The park is empty! The cities fabled river walk has nobody walking on it and ………….. were is everybody?
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Singapore Tranquility
By Ieuan Dolby | September 6, 2008
I’ve been to Singapore many times! I’ve partially lived there, worked there and visited there and every time I leave I feel sad and every time I go back I feel at home!
I went back in August 2008, the first time in nearly two years and despite traveling from the airport in a downpour that rivaled a monsoon in full force it was nice, nice to be back in a civilized country, great to see the old haunts and places that I once knew so well!
Here are a couple of photographs! More are always available in the Singapore Album
Viewed from the Eastern Anchorage the skyline of Singapore is forever changing!
Running through the heart of Singapore the tranquility of the river never fades!
Even a rainy day on Orchard Road does not stop the shoppers from traipsing out!
The Funan Center - Six floors of electronic shopping!
Cameras to laptops how-to books to second hand radio’s!
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Eileen C Entering the King George Docks in Hull
By Ieuan Dolby | August 23, 2008
As evening draws in the Eileen C of Carisbrooke Shipping is working her way through the lock and into the King George Docks in Hull! Taken in August 2008.
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The Edinburgh Fringe Cavalcade
By Ieuan Dolby | August 6, 2008
My family and I went along to see the 2008 Edinburgh Cavalcade but due to getting out of the house rather later than expected we arrived in Princes Street to find five-people-thick rows of spectators and no hope of squirming in to the front (worse than an Englishman on a Friday night in a Scottish bar)!
Our view for the most part consisted of the tips of a few bayonets as some military band passed by, a lone guy on stilts and some pretty female on the top deck of a bus - not sure what that was all about as the adverts were hidden from us!
My son soon grew bored of looking at other peoples behinds and of a lady blowing smoke in our faces and so we moved on to stroll around and simply enjoy the atmosphere! A great day out at no expense; even if we were none the wiser as to what the Edinburgh Fringe might hold for us!
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Sod the credit crunch - lets have a laugh!
By Ieuan Dolby | August 5, 2008
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Gormless on the Underground
By Ieuan Dolby | August 1, 2008
My family and I recently headed south to London! Whilst I noticed rather allot of garbage spread liberally around the cities walks and parks, and about as many drunks, beggars and tramps as tourists we did have a great time.
I saw many sites that I have never seen before; including more Indian, Middle East and African Citizens pushing prams, than I did Cockneys, and my son managed in two short minutes to join the gormless club on the underground - amazing how quickly one can fit in without any training!
Many more photographs of the tour will be uploaded shortly, including some of Cowes, Isle of Wight and Leicester and Market Harborough so watch this space for updates.
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The Claudia C Goes High and Dry
By Ieuan Dolby | July 20, 2008
Recently, the MV Claudia C was taken out of the water for a bottom inspection in a busy yard in Tuzla, Istanbul in Turkey! Below are a couple of photographs as she is aligned to the carriages below the water, makes contact with the bow and is then pulled out of the water and up the slip to be totally dry!
The Claudia C totally empty of Ballast prior docking!
The Yards diver measuring and checking the point when the bow will first touch the carriageway!
Contact has been made
The carriages start to pull the vessel out of the water!
The Claudia C High and Dry on the slip in Tuzla, Turkey!
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The Beer Bottle and the Mosque
By Ieuan Dolby | July 6, 2008
Two icons of differing cultures, the beer bottle and the mosque! This is the view from my hotel room in Pendik, Istanbul with a bottle of Tuborg Beer conveniently stuffed in the way to make the picture!
Why can’t they stand side-by-side? And here in Turkey they do!
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The Look of Turkish Woman
By Ieuan Dolby | July 5, 2008
I have been in Turkey for a week or so, ostensibly to look at a ship but I can’t help but wonder how life is here in this religious quagmire!
I took these two photographs from the room of my hotel and I display them not for photographic acclamation but because they seem to tell me something; that jealousy is there – I wouldn’t call that admiration or disgust!
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Hull Docks and a Nokia Moment
By Ieuan Dolby | July 4, 2008
Mobile Phones have come along way since I first had to shove a credit card size chip into a brick! Now I tend to lose my phone amongst the loose change in my pocket!
I have accepted these changes without care until I took this photograph! The scene is of Hull Docks, an evening whilst onboard the Alessia C. The colouring may not be quite correct but the end result of the hastily taken snap is very pleasing indeed. I never in my life thought that a 2MPixel whiff of a Nokia moment could be quite so pleasing – one must wander though whether it is my photographic skills or the phone - I would tend to go for the former despite the “point and shoot” action of course!
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