Ship Garthsnaid, ca 1920s

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Photographer: Alexander Harper Turner
Ship Garthsnaid, 1920
Glass copy negative
Reference No. 1/2-014494-G
De Maus Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

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  1. Mark Burr 14 months ago | reply

    great photo !!

  2. pinguin1961 14 months ago | reply

    Fantastisches Foto! - Fantastic shot!

  3. mambo1935 13 months ago | reply

    wow - brave!!!!

  4. Andrea Marchini 13 months ago | reply

    Balls of (stainless) steel! Hats off.

  5. tedesco57 13 months ago | reply

    ...and we complain of a breeze!

  6. shirakashi 11 months ago | reply

    Check the horizon line :)

  7. Mark Stoeffler 11 months ago | reply

    What a dramatic capture! Really shows, what it ment to be working on a sailing ship!

  8. timgoes 10 months ago | reply

    I was on a ship like that in wind like that. 100 years later there are not much better high wind tall ship pics anywhere. They are having a scary day. He kept the horizon level.

  9. timgoes 10 months ago | reply

    Do you see the platform on the mast in the middle? Chances are he was on the foremast on it's similar platform. You can bet the ship was rolling heavily and he might've been tied down and his camera in hand. But tied to a safety leash.

  10. Anto57 - 9 months ago | reply

    Impressionante e bellissima!

  11. Darkroom Daze 7 months ago | reply

    I have no idea what it must have been like working these ships in heavy seas. I've been on two three-masters as a passenger but it wasn't in seas like this, and doing photography from the rigging looks pretty daring and difficult.

  12. BCFCapt [deleted] 7 months ago | reply

    Wow! Thank you!

  13. clearbrook4 7 months ago | reply

    This photo is incredible.

  14. iffys 6 months ago | reply

    Wish i could get a shot with a DSLR!! Let alone a film camera!!!!!!!!! :-)

  15. excellentzebu1050 6 months ago | reply

    amazing
    a Masterwork
    Compliments

  16. AXELARIS-Hosting [deleted] 5 months ago | reply

    amazing pic

  17. Ben O Connor 4 months ago | reply

    Imagine,

    No Machinery,
    No GPS
    No Luxury (in terns of ANYTHING, althought they are neccesities of our life in todays world; fridge, telephone, porper stove, not even canned cheap food !!!)

    And still today´s ships (Foreaxmple Costa Concordia), could sink ! Pathetic...

  18. Steve Graham (formerly 'grahamsj3) 4 weeks ago | reply

    Nothing made by man will ever be able to stand up to natures fury if unleashed. Get used to it. We are NOT the ruling factor on this planet, regardless how much we think so.

  19. Robin SC 8 days ago | reply

    The fact that this amazing photographer took the time to risk his life for this shot speaks volumes. I hear people complaining about the elements, trying to get that sweet shot, and this guy was not on a day cruise. He was in it for the long haul, and made the most of it. Hats off to the photographers from the past.

  20. jaimegmera 2 days ago | reply

    wau, parece cabo de hornos

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