We interrupt this stream of baby photos (at am appropriate moment, having reached a year old), to bring an intermission of travel photos. While I do intend to upload a large backlog of my favourite travel photography (spanning roughly a decade!), I felt that this set deserves a post of its own.
These were taken (according to the photo data - my memory isn't that good, so let's hope the camera was accurate) on 4th December, 2007. Believe me when I say, it doesn't feel so long ago. It still feels like yesterday.
I was working on board the QE2 ocean liner at the time, before her retirement the following year (I remained on board until she retired in Dubai in 2008, after her final voyage). On this particular day, we had docked in Lisbon, Portugal, and the '25 de Abril' bridge was partially submerged in thick fog. It gave a striking visual impression, of a bridge leading to nowhere.
I have many, many images of this bridge, taken on numerous return voyages to Lisbon. But none are as atmospheric, or as powerful as the ones taken on this day. The bridge is notorious for its bright red colour, but somehow the fog sucked out all the colour on this occasion.
Having the opportunity to capture the atmosphere of this unusual visual phenomenon on that particular day - being in the right place at the right time - inspired my photography to capture these moments, and I became more serious about photography after this set. It was shortly after this that I upgraded my camera to achieve better results, although even now, I am not sure that I would have shot these differently, if I'd had better equipment at the time. These are more or less straight out of camera (with some black and white alternatives).
And here she is. QE2, in all her glory.
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