[ 04-09-2003: Message edited by: Captain Rhone ]

your choice is incredible, in a million postcards of a zillion ships, Eugenio C from the 80's... With the slight lean towards starboard due to the turn and the angled funnels and the double curved bow and the bow wave and the islands in the background... This is what a dream ship should look like in a postcard. Thanks for sharing it.

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Originally posted by flotsam'n jetsam:
your choice is incredible, in a million postcards of a zillion ships, Eugenio C from the 80's...

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How do you know it's the 80s? Just curious.

[ 04-10-2003: Message edited by: Captain Rhone ]

And here is a picture of the Southward in a San Pedro, California drydock.

Another favorite...This is a shot taken from the top of the forward funnel of the SS United States in 1986 while she was still in Norfolk. I crawled to the edge of the fin at the top of the funnel and nearly hung over the edge to get this interesting shot. Makes you kind of dizzy?

Now THIS photo is really one of my favorites..I have it blown up into a huge cebechrome (sp). This is me in my youth at the peak of of my fascination and passion with ocean liners and cruise ships waving at the SS Norway shortly after she entered service. I think this was my second visit to see the ship in Miami, and I wanted to see her arrival and watch her turn in the harbor. I had the camera set up on a tripod...my Dad snapped the picture. This picture really brings back fond memories.

And one more.....This is the mv Empress with Starlite Cruises. I was Assistant Cruise Director and became Cuise Director. This picture was taken as I hung from a parachute in xtapa, Mexico. I parasailed around the ship several times to try and get a decent shot of the ship for the company to use for postcards, because at the time there were no aerial shots of the Empress. In fact my pictures are the only aerial photos of the "Empress" with Starlite Cruises. Before the postcards were made, the ship was taken out of service in the Mexican Riviera and leased to a company in Singapore where she was hit by a fishing trawler and sunk. Too bad she was a nice little ship.

[ 04-10-2003: Message edited by: Barryboat ]

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Originally posted by cruiseny:

How do you know it's the 80s? Just curious.

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I have copies of this postcard. It has different versions from different angles taken during the same fly over and they're all perfect. I have received this and a bunch of other postcards from Costa in the second half of the eighties.

(A favorite ship in a favorite place by a favorite artist)

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[ 04-10-2003: Message edited by: Fairsky ]

Here are some pictures out of my own collection that are my favourite, more can be seen on my site: Cruising the 21st Century
I got so much more pictures from last cruise season that aren’t on my site yet. If I only had some free time to post them on my site!

Best, Onno

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Originally posted by Fairsky:
I think the site with the very best photos has to be Bart's Passenger Ship Parade.

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Certainly it's up there! The variety of ships is not great though, or at least it wasn't until recently. Mind you, there are plenty of them, but most are ones hardly worth his great photography.

The new SEVEN SEAS VOYAGER has to be an exception though, she looks fantastic.

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I don't think we're allowed to post his photos here..

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Originally posted by Onno:
I like Bart’s site as well especially his interior pictures are excellent and professional. Most interior pictures on the web have mostly bad lighting. His does not!

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I agree. What's amazing is that I think he uses a rather ordinary consumer digital camera, which is no problem, except on interior shots like that you must have a flash with quite a bit of "punch" and the little built-in units most digitals come with are usually very much lacking in that respect.

I guess he must use an external flash, either that or he's really extraordinary in Photoshop!

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Here are some pictures out of my own collection that are my favourite

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You certainly picked some of the more interesting ones!

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Originally posted by cruiseny:
That would be SWITZERLAND, NOORDAM, VICTORIA, ROYAL PRINCESS, and the sixth is FUNCHAL, but I can't figure out what the fifth is?

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Five out of six not bad! The fifth is the Kristina Regina.
As a graphic designer I tent to make my photo’s more graphically and look at the composition more then simply snapping a totality shot of the ship (Which I also do of course, but that is to satisfy my ship passion)