What’s Your Preference?

billmac57 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-27-2009, 11:29 AM

Lots of Fast boats,old boats and pirate ships, fun on the River Clyde

Played a little with the Waverley to get the funnels to stand out.

audrey-g · #2 (**permalink**) 07-27-2009, 11:36 AM

it's very difficult to capture those fast moving subjects but you did that very well. well done!

Hayward Taylor · #3 (**permalink**) 07-27-2009, 01:16 PM

I can hear the engines revving .. great job with the post on the 3rd image .. very nice

billmac57 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-27-2009, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by audrey-g

it's very difficult to capture those fast moving subjects but you did that very well. well done!

Thanks Audrey, was pleased and surprised with how they turned out

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Originally Posted by Hayward Taylor

I can hear the engines revving .. great job with the post on the 3rd image .. very nice

Thanks Hayward, they were loud and really fast. I did the 3rd. one in Picassa, don`t really do much with my pictures but I liked how this turned out.

lindyannajones · #5 (**permalink**) 07-27-2009, 03:09 PM

These photos do a great job of giving you a sense of the speed and competition. And a now pitch for why DPS is a great website. You learn stuff. Paddleboad steamer? I was completely unaware this technology--old but nevertheless interesting. I can see why you chose your BW/leave the funnels Red, white and Black treatment. Anyone who knows the Waverley will recognize them. Very well done, Bill.

beachcomber · #6 (**permalink**) 07-27-2009, 04:47 PM

You have been busy and innovative with these three bright action pictures. You can feel the power of the boat in the first as the driver leans to the right taking a tight left hand hand turn.
The second looks fun, and forgive my apparent rudeness but at first glance it looked to me if the driver was wearing an animal head, either a zebra or badger with a small mane.
The final one is clever, the boat works great in black and white and even better with the funnels emphasised.
Excellent work Bill

beach

billmac57 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-27-2009, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by lindyannajones

These photos do a great job of giving you a sense of the speed and competition. And a now pitch for why DPS is a great website. You learn stuff. Paddleboad steamer? I was completely unaware this technology--old but nevertheless interesting. I can see why you chose your BW/leave the funnels Red, white and Black treatment. Anyone who knows the Waverley will recognize them. Very well done, Bill.

Thank you Linda, a little info on the boat.

Waverley

"Built on the Clyde in 1947 - to replace the original Waverley that sunk off Dunkirk in 1940, the Waverley was originally built to sail only between Craigendorran & Arrochar in West Scotland. It is amazing to think that she now sails right round Britain offering regular trips on the Clyde, the Thames, South Coast of England and the Bristol Channel with other calls at various ports & piers throughout the UK."

It is quite a boat, I remember going on it when I was lots younger, the big treat was to be taken down to see the engines, to look out at the paddles beating through the water. Now I am going to have to book a trip and take some pictures of the engine.

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Originally Posted by beachcomber

You have been busy and innovative with these three bright action pictures. You can feel the power of the boat in the first as the driver leans to the right taking a tight left hand hand turn.
The second looks fun, and forgive my apparent rudeness but at first glance it looked to me if the driver was wearing an animal head, either a zebra or badger with a small mane.
The final one is clever, the boat works great in black and white and even better with the funnels emphasised.
Excellent work Bill

beach

Thanks Beach.
It was quite a day but we moved away from the fast boat area to go down to see the Waverley, open the paper this morning and see pictures of jet skis doing somersaults, I could have got some pictures of that but thats the way it goes