Shipwreck

An old decommisioned boat on the banks of Loch Linnhe, looking towards Ben Nevis in the distance.

Ben Nevis - the highest mountain in the British Isles. This picture was taken near the Fort William in Scotland.

On Maheraclogher beach near Bunbeg Cara Na Mara stranded in the 1970s. The wreck, simply called Eddie's boat (Bád Eddie) by the locals, has since become a popular attraction.

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The ship is called Garðar BA 64. It ist hought to be the oldest ship made of steel in Iceland. It was built in Norway as a whaling vessel exactly one hundred years ago. Garðar was launched in Norway in 1912, the year Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was named Globe IV and was equipped with both sails and a steam engine to use when the weather was still. It was specially reinforced to endure the harsh conditions of the Southern Ocean where it was used to hunt whales

The Corpach Shipwreck with the town of Fort William and the snow capped peak of Ben Nevis looming large in the background. An eerie yet strikingly...

Thought this kind of sums up things today... :-D The old boat at Corpach once again serves as a great subject and Ben Nevis is not a bad backdrop!

Abandoned.

Back to Scotland again, and the mainland this time.

We had decided to stop here on the way up to Skye to shoot the old marooned boat on the shores of Loch Linnhe as a few hadn't done it before and we weren't exactly in a rush..

The weather was grim to say the very least, dreich and generally horrible, raining non stop but hey we were passing so why not !!

As much as I enjoy shooting beautiful sunrises and sunsets that's most definitely not always the case, and if you come to Scotland with that mindset you may as well just not bother full stop ! I hadn't decided wether or not I was going to shoot the boat until we got there, thankfully there was definition in the sky and due to the non stop rain the flow of water into the Loch was enough to enable this shot to be worth it, we were never going to see the top of Ben Nevis but a large portion of the upper slopes covered in snow kept becoming visible so the stuff came out and I shot the scene.

We were all totally soaked here, and probably fairly knackered after a night in the car (although some folk will tell you I had a good sleep) I certainly didn't feel like it !

Scottish folk have a term for this weather - Dreich.

"dreich"

adjective - Scottish (especially of weather) dreary; bleak. "a cold, dreich early April day"

This is Dreich !

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On Maheraclogher beach near Bunbeg Cara Na Mara stranded in the 1970s. The wreck, simply called Eddie's boat (Bád Eddie) by the locals, has since become a popular attraction.

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Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015

Bad Eddie Shipwreck, Magheraclogher Strand, Bunbeg, Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland

Captured over the 'Cara Na Mara' (Friend of the sea) or 'Bád...

Early morning after a high tide the beach was cleaned of footprints and small sand ripples were there instead. I positioned my camera very low to emphasize the ripples and made a long exposure to smooth out the sky. Some focus stacking was need as well, since the foreground was very close to the camera. I opted for B/W, since the sky color was rather dull.

The beached fishing boat on the shores of Loch Linnhe, at Corpach, with the stunning backdrop of Ben Nevis.

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