Alma Doepel with Clouds
THE SUBJECT:
The ship is the Alma Doepel., “a three masted topsail schooner, Australian built and operated with more than one hundred years of history behind her and with more history to be written.”
The ship was cared for by the members of The Alma Doepel Supporters Club.
She spends most of her time moored wharf side as a tourist attraction but a few time a year she heads off to sea for a short voyage, carrying the members and friends of the club. A great tourist attraction, she must appear in thousands of photographs around the world by now.
2009: Sadly the owners have sent her to Melbourne and we may never see her in Port again.
THE LOCATION:
She was moored at the Lady Nelson Wharf on the south bank of the Hastings River in Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia.
THE MAKING OF ‘Alma Doepel with Clouds’:
This maritime B&W was photographed on one of my winter afternoon strolls.
Fuji S5500: High resolution jpg, f/8 @ 1/120sec, Auto focus, ISO100, Hand held.
Photoshop CS
Visit the Watercraft collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more ships ‘n’ boats n’n’ things.
UPDATE: March 2008
An unknown buyer with impeccable taste has bought a matted print.
UPDATE: 15-12-09
BIG news! A framed 60cm x 100cm (24”x40”) B&W print of my wonderful old sailing ship has been sold as part of a collection of 16 of my Port Macquarie photographs to be displayed permanently in the Coast Apartments complex.
Enjoy!
WATERCRAFT
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Alma Doepel with Clouds
