The last remnants of ice are melting away and floating rafts of reeds have gathered around them. The first few are braving the cold in their boats now usable again after a long winter.
#spring #shipsaturday #sea #espoo #finland
Okay, zum #SchiffsSamstag möchte ich mit diesem Bild die kalte Jahreszeit gerne endgültig verabschieden.😊
Die #StenaScandinavica, analog fotografiert auf #KodakTmax400 35mm Kleinbildfilm.
#ShipSaturday #analogphotography #SchwedenFähre #blackandwhite #madewithkodak #BelieveInFilm
We're in a calm harbour looking from one low, stone-lined, concrete jetty extending out from the shoreline to another just across an empty stretch of water. On the other side of that jetty, docked and with no sign of anyone aboard, there is a white passenger ferry, about a hundred metres long with an accommodation structure and bridge in the centre and even amounts of deck space fore and aft. Large blue lettering reading "Jadrolinija" is in the centre of the ship's hull with a blue line extending out of it contrasting with the white of the vessel catching a lot of sunshine. Above the name there are large, glass-free porthole windows showing an empty space within the ship that could normally contain vehicles. Above that there is a deck with square windows for passengers. Bench seating on open deck above that is then topped off with the bridge. At the prow to the left there's the word "Faros". The background shows a city with a ridge of mountains behind under an overcast sky. The buildings of the city are light-coloured stone with red tiled roofs, and a few church towers stick out.
For #SchiffSamstag this is the Jadrolinja Faros, a roll-on, roll-off passenger and cargo ferry and this was taken in 2023 in the port of Split, Croatia.
#Photography #Travel #SchiffsSamstag #ShipSaturday #Ship #Ferry #Croatia #Split
Farbfotografie im Querformat zeigt eine Landschaftsfotografie an der Elbe kurz vor Sonnenuntergang. Im Mittelpunkt einer kompakten Wolke befindet sich ein Loch, durch das das Sonnenlicht nach unten fällt. Links im Bild und sehr dunkeln sieht man ein Schiff. Im Hintergrund sieht man das niedersächsische Ufer.
'Im Mittelpunkt' #FotoVorschlag
#schiffssamstag #shipsaturday
We're on a high deck of a cruise ship that's in the process of leaving a port. Our view is mostly of the open sea which is a deep, dark blue but reasonably calm, just textured enough to suggest a decent breeze rippling across its surface. A concrete jetty extends out from the shore which is somewhere out of view to the left, and we'd been docked to it. Still docked at its end is a smaller cruise ship with sharp prow angled towards land. The ship catches the late afternoon sun on the side we're looking it making it appear to glow. The ship isn't very large - just a hundred metres long - and has a traditional-looking navy blue hull with gleaming white upper decks. The forward structure with bridge is heavily sloped backwards giving the ship a very pointed, sleek look. Writing near the tip of the prow tells us the ship is "La Belle Des Oceans".
For #SchiffsSamstag here's La Belle Des Océans, a former expedition cruise ship now mostly operating as a coastal cruiser in the Mediterranean and around the Canaries. We spotted her here while visiting Lanzarote in 2021. With only 130 passengers aboard she'd be […]
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Zwei Frachtschiffe fahren auf der Elbe aufeinander zu. Im Vordergrund die Mündung der Stör in die Elbe mit einer Reihe Dalben, Schilf und Eisflächen.
#SchiffsSamstag #ShipSaturday
Heute mit einem Beitrag von der Elbe.
big orange shipt labeled "Stanten Island Ferry" in blue cursive letters along the side, surrounded by dock with numerous posts. in the background a another white ship can be seen passing by in front of a large suspension bridge
**"Maritime Afternoon"** , ( Kiel 2008 ),
zum #SchiffsSamstag / for #ShipSaturday
From the archives: Historical Steamer 'Freya', Ferry 'Stena Germanica' and, more in the image's background, 'M/S Deutschland' leaving Port of Kiel. 'Developed' today […]
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Ganz vergessen: es ist ja #SchiffsSamstag!
(I completely forgot, today is #shipsaturday! 😊)
#analogphotography #Analogfotografie #FromTheArchives
#AgfaVista200 #35mm #expiredfilm #lifeboat #RettungsBoot #shipphotography #SchiffsFotografie #maritime #fotografie #photography #msalkor #alkor #geomar
A portrait orientation image taken on a hot, bright, and humid day with a patchwork sky of deep blue behind puffy white clouds. We're standing at the edge of a harbour of calm, green-blue water. A few metres across the water from us there's a small tourist catamaran moored up. Its hulls are bright red and its sail is furled. In the distance behind the catamaran, alongside a long pier, there's a large cruise ship docked with her sharp prow pointing towards the land on our right. The ship is mostly white with nine decks of balcony cabins running along the sides above the lifeboats on its promenade deck level. Stylistic blue artwork on the ship's prow depicts a woman's head with her hair forming waves undulating back along the hull.
For #SchiffsSamstag this week here's a snap from #Antigua a few weeks ago. Behind the catamaran is Regal Princess, one of two Princess Cruises ships in the port on that day. We were visiting while cruising on the other ship, Grand Princess. We've cruised on […]
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It's an overcast day with a few patches of blue sky, but it's hot and humid here. We're looking across a stretch of grass, patchy with dry spots in places. In the distance there are some small hills rising but they're mostly obscured by the superyacht that's moored in front with its upper decks visible but most of its hull below the level of the ground we're gazing past. The yacht structure is broadly white in colour but where it has large glass windows they're tinted almost to black, probably for privacy. The effect is almost as if a large block of smoky quartz were broken up by slices of white decking arranged almost organically, slightly offset vertically. A central column seems to show a central atrium on the yacht of four decks with window shapes as if rectangles had been stretched and warped and twisted. A very strange-looking ship.
For #SchiffsSamstag here's the superyacht Artefact docked in Philipsburg, St Maarten a couple of weeks ago. She was quite a striking and unusual sight and was the subject of a huge number of photos from everyone disembarking our cruise ship to head ashore […]
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Ein großes Segelschiff liegt in einem Hafen vor Anker, umgeben von modernen Gebäuden. Menschen haben sich auf einem nahe gelegenen Dock und einer Brücke versammelt und genießen den Blick auf das Wasser. Weitere Boote sind entlang des Hafens zu sehen. Das Wasser spiegelt die Stadtlandschaft wider und wirkt ruhig.
The Birka Gotland in Stockholm on August 2025. This ship cruises between Gotland and Stockholm and is co-owned by Viking Line and Gotlandsbolaget.
#schiffsamstag #shipsaturday #ships #passengership #stockholm
We're on the balcony of a cruise ship facing away from the dock and across a stretch of water to land and further docks and cranes on the other side, behind which there is a low landscape of trees and fields. A ship is docked opposite us, facing outwards and to the left. It has a deep green hull with white superstructure and a single yellow funnel slanting backwards at the very rear behind where the bridge is located. Most of the forward half of the vessel has open deck and the tops of vehicles can just be seen. The top deck's fore slopes down slightly before meeting the prow of the ship. It's a fairly overcast day.
For #SchiffsSamstag here's Anvil Point, a point-class ship that can be used as a roll-on, roll-off ferry but is designed to be used as a military cargo transporter when needed too. She was the last ship to be built at Belfast's famous Harland & Wolff shipyard in […]
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Tugboat "Sami" photographed in Herttoniemenranta, Helsinki, Finland.
#ships #shipsaturday #schiffsamstag #tugboats #helsinki
It's night and we're on a ship in a commercial dock looking across a small, rippled stretch of inky black water to the dockside where a container ship sits in front of a background of cranes and tall lamp post with warm-toned lights casting the area in an orange-gold tone. The long container ship has shipping containers loaded along its deck and on its dark hull we can make out the large letters MSC.
#FotoVorschlag “Nachtschicht”
Photo theme: Night shift.
There's usually always something taking place in commercial docks, day or night. This was after midnight on Gran Canaria in 2021 when our ship had to divert to offload a passenger following a medical […]
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We're on a brick slipway at the water's edge in a calm harbour on a bright day. The sky above has thin veils of clouds all over but is largely a deep blue. The water is lapping gently up the slipway and the lower metre or two of the bricks are dark, indicating where the tide reaches. A dozen or more small boats are anchored mainly on the right of view, some row boats, others with motors, none able to take more than a handful of people. A large brick building is to the right, behind a jetty that stretches out and against which there is a three-masted, iron-clad, sailing ship. Its hull is black except just above the water line where it's red. There are no sails on the masts. The bowsprit mast at the front, and facing towards land, is very long. Notably, the vessel has two low, pale orange funnels mounted midships indicating it can sail under power and under wind.
For #SchiffsSamstag here's HMS Warrior beside the naval port in #Portsmouth as taken last week. Impossible to head down here and not take a picture of this 1860 frigate, the first iron-hulled warship.
#Photography #SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday #HMSWarrior #Ship #History
A live fish carrier ship sits docked in front of a backdrop of houses and other buildings, themselves backed by a rising, rocky landscape under a clear blue sky on a bright, warm day. We're on the far side of the harbour looking across nearly-still blue water to the vessel which is around 80 metres long and painted on its hull in vibrant blue to offset the clean white elsewhere on its bridge, funnel, and deck machinery. The front half of the ship, facing right, is higher than that behind and it hosts the bridge with its broadly hemispherical design for wide views all around, topped off with radar equipment. The rear central part of the deck is most interesting with an array of cranes with thick, folded arms, similar in appearance to robotic arms on a car assembly line. A small funnel sits to the very rear. Behind the ship on the right there are steep-roofed houses, many red brick to match the tile colours but some with white wooden boarding. Left of the ship on land there is a larger building in paler brick with stepped gables and architecture most associated with northern Europe. A rocky ridge, sparsely filled with dull green foliage rises behind the largest building then climbs gently upwards to the right of view.
For #SchiffsSamstag here's Namsos, a live fish carrier. She houses cylindrical tanks for transportation and the deck hosts equipment to offload, count, and delouse fish as well as water treatment facilities.
#Photography #Travel #Bergen #Norway #SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday #Ship
Grand bateau « GNV » amarré dans le port de Sète, dans la nuit, tout éclairé avec les reflets jaune, blanc, bleu dans la mer.
C'était aussi en décembre, plus vers l'heure noire, à Sète... mais où va ce grand bateau, peut-être à Alger ?
#gayfr #SchiffsSamstag #ShipSaturday
A portrait orientation view from one side of a harbour on a sunny day with a sky largely clear blue above but bubbling with white clouds in the distance over land and hills on the far side of the calm water. We're watching a three-masted, tall ship docked ahead at a curving stone promenade lined with metal railings, facing to the right. The ship's sails are furled and a Swedish flag - blue with a yellow cross on it - hangs high from the aft, catching a light breeze. The ship's aft is smoothly curved and raised slightly from the rest of the deck; it's painted black at the water line but has a thick band of white along the upper surface where small portholes are set into the ship evenly around the hull.
For #SchiffsSamstag here's the Swedish ship Gunilla docked in Portsmouth Harbour, one of a group of tall ships visiting the city in 2011. Gunilla was launched in 1940 as a cargo hauler but was refitted as a barque in the 90s to operate as a sailing training ship […]
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Frachtschiff mit bunten Containern auf tiefblauem Meer unter hellblauem Himmel
We're in a fjord on a bright, sunny, warm day. Our view is from aboard a tender boat, a small boat used to ferry passengers from cruise ships to land and back again, and we're sitting up on top so we've got uninterrupted views across the flat surface of the water. We're looking back to the cruise ship that we've recently departed from. It's all in white and facing slightly towards us with its prow angled over our right shoulder. A split around the ridge of the prow shows off the area in which there is a promenade deck wrapping around the ship and down the left side as we look we can see lifeboats mounted at the same height. The bridge with its wide wings at the upper front of the ship resembles a visor and the overall look is a little like a great, white, metal dolphin or whale on the water. To the left, just beside the ship are two more tender boats, white and orange, small in scale against the ship. To the right, further back, there is another cruise ship; a smaller white one pointing to the left, with a pale orange funnel. The background under the deep blue sky and puffy white clouds comprises of steep rising hills, mostly green with grass and trees, with some more mountainous rises to the rear and some houses visible near the fjord shoreline to the left and right.
A combination #SchiffsSamstag and #FotoVorschlag today with its theme of "Schifffahrt" or shipping or ship-related.
Our view in 2013 from a tender boat departing Crown Princess (left) with P&O Adonia in the background at Geiranger, Norway. We went on a hike up […]
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We're on a cruise ship sailing close to a port area and looking down and across a short stretch of water towards a long, narrow pier against which a large, three-masted, nineteenth century frigate ship is docked, facing away from us. It has a mostly black, ironclad hull with a red base as it tapers near the waterline. The masts are very tall, wooden and warmly-toned with evening sunshine on them, all with numerous spurs, and the central mast is the tallest of the three. Two short, pale yellow funnels sit just forward of midships between the front and central masts. Behind there are buildings and low warehouses typical of an old dockyard area.
For #SchiffsSamstag here's HMS Warrior in our home city of Portsmouth, taken as we sailed out past the historic dockyard on a ship in 2021. HMS Warrior is a nineteenth century ironclad frigate with a steam engine but also the capability to raise sails […]
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