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Neil A
{K:297} 12/29/2007
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Great photograph. The many colors of rust are amazing.
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Paul Stockley
{K:1028} 12/29/2007
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Great photo and a very well detailed story behind it. It must be fantastic to get the chance to see these places.
Regards,
Paul.
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Tim Schumm
{K:28854} 12/30/2007
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hi Paul,
Yes i made a pact with myself to get out there and see things cause life is short and things are changing fast....so I am working little and traveling lots.
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Gust@vo Sch3v3rin
{K:153867} 12/30/2007
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Una gran foto, gran hallazgo!
Felicitaciones!
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Roger Skinner
{K:75111} 12/30/2007
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amzing how we just leave junk all over the planet eh.. next thing you know we'll be leaving it on the moon or mars or ...
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26689} 12/30/2007
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Tim it sure is surprising to see how intact the Ships hull is.
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Dave Stacey
{K:138306} 12/30/2007
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Good capture of the wreck and an interesting description, Tim!
Dave.
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Tim Schumm
{K:28854} 12/30/2007
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Hi Roger,
Isn't there junk already on both Mars and the moon?...lol....we are just the same as caveman throwing the bone out of the cave. Not much has changed with all that tech knowledge. We have gained little wisdom to balance the intellectual knowledge, so the destruction continues.
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Roger Skinner
{K:75111} 12/30/2007
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yeah you are right.. the big difference is that the bone was biodegradable whereas some of the stuff we now leave behind isnt without even thinking about spent nuclear fuel rods OMG and whats weirder is that Mawson's Hut is now subject to a Heritage Listing what a joke much as it is a fascinating place.. it is a joke.. it should be pulled down.. If people want to see what it looked like they can look at Eliot Porter's photographs
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Tim Schumm
{K:28854} 12/30/2007
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I am donating massive funds to the cause as we speak...may it live on forever....Hail the Hut!
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Tim Schumm
{K:28854} 12/30/2007
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I have to say I was not very interested in the ship really so I thought I would try to see it as a Art subject and ignore the fact that it is just old junk. We visited another area ( Ex Whaling Station) with lots more junk lying around a week later and i found it very depressing so I shot all the compositions in cool blues or B/W to express my dismay. Couldn't get out of there fast enough.
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Roger Skinner
{K:75111} 12/30/2007
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woops picked the wrong bloke for a rant !! kekeke
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txules .
{K:49668} 12/30/2007
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fabulous...txules
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* James *
{K:20200} 12/30/2007
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this is the kind of junk i dont mind seeing left around. its a wreck, and you can find them all over the world, and people pay to see them, in particular divers. this one would be very interesting to have a look at, and i'm curious what happened to the crew of the ship after it was beached. this photo is intriguing for that fact alone.
james
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Tim Schumm
{K:28854} 12/30/2007
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Hi James,
Knee how ma,
Good to hear from you. What you say is true. I think though for me in this context, where the land is so untouched for the most part that it is a bit shocking to see this ship lodged there. It was a Whaling factory ship having worked in this harbour for only a year before burning. Having processed over 550 whales during that time. All the crew was saved I believe because for the most part it was in the harbour here when it happened and there were many other ships around. The hull was still a half inch thick so i imagine it will be there for a while yet. For being there close to 90 years, there was still paint on the hull and it looked like the surface rust was not the problem for it. This may have been due to type of steel. In fact it may have been iron and not steel at all.
The Whaling thing is a tough one for me, as it is not really needed these days and yet we seem to be interested in hunting to the very point of extinction. The one way I attempt to look and except this ignorance is that we are here on this planet as a result of a certain lacking in wisdom and that maybe this world is a training ground for that in which we are lacking. I suppose that really, not so long ago, it was a molten ball of lava and that really we can't destroy the creativity of Earth, it just keeps changing. So we have the fortune to see it in all it's manifestations.....humans included.
Now China is a different story, the history there is so deep it is hard to fathom and the relics left behind are fascinating beyond comprehension. The difference here is that it has been occupied for so long with a ever changing style of civilization that this in itself becomes the focus of all that you see there.
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Eb Mueller
{K:23800} 12/30/2007
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Beautiful rich tonality and dramatic forms, Tim! Excellent!
Eb
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* James *
{K:20200} 12/30/2007
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Tim, i was thinking of the X-Files episode "Dod Kalm" when I saw this photo. Not sure if you have ever seen it but this image invokes the same kind of mystery in my mind.
More closely to what you've written, I can forgive people 50-100 years ago for their actions. No-one could really foresee the state of the planet today. Now we all need to do something to improve conditions, but as long as some people think others arent doing anything, then i understand why nothing seems to be happening in protecting the planet.
one thing we ought not to do is invade antartica (and the far north) and start plundering whatever might be there.
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John Bohner
{K:8327} 12/31/2007
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I would remind both you and Tim the among the 'junk' left on the moon are a number of Hasselblads and Nikons. No doubt a collector would pay a pretty penny to own one of those! Only the film came back, the rest was too heavy and on no use!
JB
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Roger Skinner
{K:75111} 12/31/2007
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yeah but the 'blads had that silly glass frame in 'em n mine doesnt so I guess I dont care I mean once ya got one what do you want with another.. nevertheless John you are right and it sticks in my throat a little.. now.. whats your position on Mawson's Hut kekeke
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Roger Skinner
{K:75111} 12/31/2007
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LMAO James!!
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Sharrie Shaw
{K:944} 1/21/2008
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Somewhere in time....... captured on film!
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Omar Amroussy
{K:4078} 12/28/2008
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amazing colors and compositions
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