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Ocean going big-box vehicle carriers are not sleek mega-yachts, warships, or cruise ships, so how do you photograph them to make them look interesting?
I made this try.

The Grand Vega just finished delivery of a load of European new cars to the Autoport at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, when we started out mackerel fishing. The fog was coming over Eastern Passage in the first photo. As we were fishing, the Grand Vega went from being in complete sun to completely disappearing in fog; all in 5 minutes. It's a good reminder that the small pleasure boats should stay out of the shipping lanes. Those are a couple of gannets in the last photo.


My fishing buddy shoots Nikon SLR, but he won't take his photo gear fishing because it might get wet. I take my K5 and DA*16-50 mm WR and get the shots.

Well done; and well said.

Commercial 'tools' don't have to be pretty, eh? So long as they work.

But there's nothing sayin' they *can't* be pretty too

This tug was coming back to dock after berthing another container ship in Tacoma, WA... Shot from my kayak yesterday, WG-10 since I was chasing salmon not photo ops...

Jim

I'm working on the St. Lawrence river for one of the larger Great Lake fleets and the amount of pleasure craft that like to think they're a deep draft vessel is staggering. Very nice shots of the Grand Vega! Visited the Dartmouth oil terminal a couple of times in 2012, quite enjoyed my time ashore in Halifax

True, but is she a blond or a red head? An impressive vessel for sure, but she looks like she ought'a be a modern control tower at an airport.

Actually, that seems like a great solution for a conning station for the work involved. Would be fun to watch 'er at work. Searching on 'Crowley Tugs' produces some interesting info.

I'd call her a natural redhead with a platinum blonde wig

The tower design seems to be a very common theme for tugs, as I understand it. Just about every new(ish) boat has it, at least the seagoing and larger harbor boats around here. These are a couple of Foss tugs also built locally, very similar.

Jim

Ah, there's the answer. I left the Punget Sound area in '85.

Colorado's never seen a tug and the river tugs here in TN are, shall we say, a little more traditional lookin'?