One Bubbly Son and a Garden Party
By Ieuan Dolby | August 2, 2009
This photograph was taken moments before disaster struck!
It was beautiful day, made all the better as I was on holiday, the sun was shining and for once I had no appointment to get to or to be naggingly aware of. So we organized the garden into one large fun park, resplendent with outdoor shower and paddling pool, party food, iced drinks and lollies and a concoction of chemicals to blow bubbles with (my son insisted on this part).
To make this incredible bubble blowing fluid I used 1 part orange bubble bath, 1 part purple washing up liquid, a sprinkling of sugar and a large dash of tap water, gently stirred until all nice and bubbly!
So we blew bubbles and splashed in the pool, ate some food, drank some drinks, blew some more bubbles and basically had a great old time. That was until my son decided to drink half the contents of the container holding my amazing bubble mixture. I think his excitement got the better of him as he mentally mixed-up his iced drink with the bubble mixture but the end result was one retching son!
He is okay now after drinking a bathtub full of water but my what a strange way to end the day!
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A weekend in Savannah, Georgia
By Ieuan Dolby | May 7, 2009
Arriving at Savannah Airport on the coldest flight I have ever taken, seemingly the aircon broke in full swing and couldn’t be stopped (it actually snowed inside the cabin) I shivered my way into a taxi. The driver, not understanding my freezing predicament cranked up the air conditioning and proceeded to regale me with stories about Savannah the night life, thre Irish roots and the fact that this corner of America was better than anywhere else.
So I took some photographs.
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And when I had walked all around town and when I had taken some photographs I came to the conclusion that yes, Savannah is a nice place and that yes, perhaps it does have something that many other places in America don’t have. Large cars yes, enormous people who can hardly shuffle along yes, and perhaps a few too many Americans with loud voices but at least one can walk around - can’t say that for many towns/cities in the States now can we?
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Seagulls on the River Esk
By Ieuan Dolby | May 5, 2009
I recently and lavishly spent a veritable fortune on a peice of very expensive and extreme piece of photograhic technology. The sequence of events went like this: I received news of my yearly bonus! I went online and within ten minutes I was the proud owner (not yet delivered) of a Casio Exelim 40fps, 20 X Zoom, etc, ect, bla, bla and I must admit now that it is is superb. It does everything except whistle up the prints themselves.
The point of this story though is that I am rather proud of my seagull snaps as shown below. I went out one fine yet cold day with my mother and my son. We walked from her house to the banks of the River Esk and we fed the seagulls (the swans were sulking on the other side whilst the ducks couldn’t get a quack in edgewise) some three week old welsh scones. And I was rather proud of the snaps that I took.
Funny thing is though that I couldn’t even get my recently purchased camera out the case. It snagged on a removable section inside and once I managed to get it out and up I found out that the batteries were flat.
So I took the photographs with my mobile phone!
I’m very proud of them and it just goes to show that good pictures are not necessarily the result of what money can by but more to do with that darn good old fashioned photographic spirit and a wee bit of thought to light!
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The Beer Bottle and the Mosque
By Ieuan Dolby | November 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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Singapore Tranquility
By Ieuan Dolby | August 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!
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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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The Claudia C Goes High and Dry
By Ieuan Dolby | June 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!
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The carriages start to pull the vessel out of the water!
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The Edinburgh Fringe Cavalcade
By Ieuan Dolby | June 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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Eileen C Entering the King George Docks in Hull
By Ieuan Dolby | May 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 Maritime Photographer
By Ieuan Dolby | May 13, 2008
I used to own this enormous collection of cameras, ranging from a prehistoric wooden peep hole style box to the latest Practica with enough lenses to sink a ship. Even though I had one of the most diverse collections above the Scottish border I was never very skilled in the art! Even though I had all the gear some of the best photographs I have ever taken have been with a five dollar disposable camera bought at Woolworth’s! Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby film
Keeping up with modern times I have now purchased a digital camera! Not a toy that resides as a ‘talking point’ on my mobile phone but a proper camera; no extra lenses, no zooms and wide angles, no filtration, teardrops or blurred settings just a camera that can do everything that I want it to do. But this new acquisition leaves me in a slight predicament as concerns the large pile of older cameras and accessories that clutter up my house. I approached an official in NASA wandering if they could use my zoom lenses, maybe glue them together end for end, make a Super Telescope or something, but they never replied to my emails. I have used many of the filters to make what turned out to be a most amazing mosaic style window, but the wife, the cat and the neighbors have been complaining of headaches after looking through it.
Whether it is the latest in digital technology or the cheapest Leica (the equivalent of a Skoda car in the UK) available photography is a very powerful and emotional tool. Grandparents and relatives, neighbors and the window cleaner are frequently reduced to tears when viewing pictures of babies, passports would not be quite the same without the obligatory prison mug shot included and many a party-goer feels sick all over again faced with the pictures of the night before. A photograph captures an instant in time to be referred back to again and again. Whole events, periods, days and happenings are captured in one photograph to be easily read and translated years down the line. Snapshots of holidays, moments, birthdays and celebrations are recorded in a manner that is easily preserved and for all to refer back to without hassle or time wasted. A video or tape recording, a book or a letter all preserve for posterity but each takes time to listen to or view, but a photograph will cause a flood of memoirs to come gushing out within nanoseconds. Conversations are put on hold whilst videos are watched or paper is read but a snapshot or even a whole album can be injected without falter into the middle of the fray and without pause for breath.
Certainly photographs mean more when viewed in context. The hundreds of snapshots that my father took of my sisters and me as we grew up mean so much more to us than the next door neighbor. They represent our childhood and through these snaps we can relive the times by recapturing memories and happiness. But these very same images to others outside of the circle mean very little and more use as tinder for the barbecue or to prop up the slightly shorter leg of the dining room table. Especially, but not only because my father tended to miss out our heads; most of the photographs show various torsos rather than whole persons and it is only our family that can recognize the headless children seen.
It is with the above in mind that I can fully appreciate that my seventeen years of taking photographs of endless ships around the world can be viewed by others as extremely sad and a total waste of money. This opinion will be drastically increased if you were to know that I have stashed away in a locker in Edinburgh a whole Tea Chest of photographs that would fill a hundred albums without denting the pile. This T-chest represents a whole career spanning ports from east to west and north to south of the globe. Thousands of photographs with ships on them, with oceans, seaways and lanes, hundreds of docks and wharfs, many more canals, lagoons and lakes and thousands of unrecognizable patches of water as the backdrop are stuffed away in this box. Many friends have asked to see my latest images of exotic places knowing that I have just returned from say the Windward Islands, Hong Kong or Fiji. I will pull out a whole array of photographs and all but a few will just be of ships, ships and more ships! Yes, ships in Hong Kong, in the Windward Islands and in Fiji but not of these places, and very quickly my friends are yawning politely or sometimes fast asleep.
But to myself a snapshot of the Eiffel Tower has less meaning than that of a ferry leaving La Pallice! The Leaning Tower of Pisa gives me less interest than a listing Gas Tanker berthed in Livorno and a series of pictures of General Cargo vessel steaming through the Singapore Straits gives me more pleasure to snap than those obtained from a day out on Sentosa Island.
So yes, photographs are very subjective and my subject is about vessels, ships, boats or call them what you may! I have branched out in recent years to include other items like sunsets, gardens and flowers but for the main part my theme is ‘the vessels of the Merchant Navy’.
The photographs found on this website are all of my own hand or have been passed on to me by willing parties. Some have been snapped by the latest in digital technology, some scanned from older shots that I have taken and others snapped with a 5 dollar disposable camera purchased at Woolworth’s and taken whilst under the influence of alcohol.
I make no claims to being good at what I do!
The quality of the thumbnails is very low. This is to speed up page loading time and to prevent them from being copied by others without my knowledge and used elsewhere for their benefit or profit. I would like to state that should anybody require a full pixel image of the best quality than I would be more than happy to oblige. Just send me an email with your request and I will see what I can do - for a small fee of course! I maybe rather slow in responding to requests (as I work at sea) so be patient in waiting for my reply.
I sincerely hope that the photographs will give to many the watery feeling that I have so long lived and enjoyed. I hope that they will be viewed for fun and interest by the ship enthusiast and that they not become material used to help people to fall asleep. I hope that they will give an excellent maritime ‘picture’ to the dry-footed landlubber; a preview or insight into the worlds first and largest global industry, the Merchant Navy.
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It all Depends upon the Crew
By Ieuan Dolby | May 8, 2008
I saw these amazing tugs in Tampa, Florida! Blink an eye and modern technology creeps up behind! Amazing tugs that resembled large flat buttons and that could turn on a sixpence and supposedly move a VLCC around whilst still half asleep! They looked good and they looked like they meant business!
But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter that some clever Naval Architect has managed to convince a shipowner to build some state-of-the-art, mean looking, swiveling piece of modern technology they are still only as good as the the people sailing on them. And this vessel obviously had problems when it came to maximum pulling power and basically it failed that much talked about environmental awareness that everyone keeps on going on about.
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