MACHINES

Sea Space Land


SEA

Costa Brava Ferries (2024)

AZAMARA TOUCH-UP (2018)

Minor paint repairs on the “Azamara Journey”, Trapani, Sicily, Italy.

FOUR CRUISE SHIPS (2018)

Cruise ships, St Johns, Antigua. From left to right (with passenger capacity) are Silver Wind (294), Viking Sea (930), Jewel of the Seas (2501), and Britannia (4324).

MESSINA PILOT (2017)

Pilot boat, Strait of Messina, Italy.

WATER TAXI VICTORIA (2012)

Water Taxi, Inner Harbour, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

CHEYNES IV (2008)

Whale Chaser Cheynes IV, Whale World, Albany, Western Australia, Australia. The decommissioned whaling station at Whale World is both disturbing and fascinating.

RELANDERSGRUND (2011)

Lightship "Relandersgrund", Helsinki, Finland. Built in 1888, sunk by drunken crew in 1917, raised and repaired in 1918, decommissioned in 1937, and photographed by a very cold (-26 °C) yours truly in 2011.

GERDA IN WINTER (2011)

Replica of the brig "Gerda" at Halkolaituri Vedkajen, Helsinki, Finland.

SUGAR BERTH (2018)

Viking Sea at Sugar Berth, Bridgetown, Barbados.

BONITA PORTOFERRAIO (2018)

Schooner “Bonita”, Portoferraio, Elba, Italy.

Happy Jet Boaters Sydney (2006)

Jet boat, Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

DUK LING (2006)

Junk “Duk Ling”, Hong Kong, China.


SPACE

MARS ROVER ATACAMA (2013)

Rover platform "Bridget", Mars mission simulation, Atacama desert, Chile.

SATURN-V FIRST STAGE (2008)

Saturn-V first stage engines, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.

STS ENTERPRISE (1983)

Space Shuttle Enterprise, Stansted Airport, Essex, UK.

MARS CURIOSITY ROVER JPL (2011)

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) aka "Curiosity" Vehicle System Testbed (VSTB), JPL Mars Yard, Pasadena, California, USA.

VLT ESO PARANAL (2013)

Very Large Telescope (VLT), European Southern Observatory, Cerro Paranal, Atacama, Chile. The four main Unit Telescopes from left to right are UT1 (“Antu”), UT2 (“Kueyen”), UT3 (“Melipal”), and UT4 (“Yepun”).

UT4 YEPUN (2013)

Unit Telescope 4 "Yepun", Very Large Telescope (VLT), European Southern Observatory, Cerro Paranal, Atacama, Chile. Each of the four Unit Telescopes that make up the VLT are 8.2 m diameter Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrains.


LAND

HELLO KITTY (2019)

Hello Kitty Shinkansen, Osaka, Japan.

ATHABASCA EXPLORER (2012)

Ice Explorer, Athabasca Glacier, Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.