ELBEBORG maiden voyage to Chicago!

[Jean Hemond]

New Wagenborg Shipping vessel ELBEBORG was seen from Quebec Bridge under the best of lights! She was bound upstream  fully laden for Chicago. I delay  for some time my posting the great photos in the hope to sell exclusive rights to the owners. 

[Fred Vloo]

Keep on dreaming ;-)

[miraflores]

I took some fotos from  a channelbridge of that vessel on her maiden voyage passing the Kiel Canal, date June 11 2001.
Until today nobody has shown any interest in exclusive rights.

[Jean Hemond]

Dreams are what keeps all humanity alive!

Sorry guys but.....!
From  my ship spotting activities, last year,  I got  lucky and managed a 10 day 1st class all included voyage in Venice for witnessing a maritime event .


And by the way I already,  like a certain number of us I am sure,   sell a  certain number of  ship photos each year! Some outside my country!
 
My next awake dream is seriously selling ship paintings and this one is well in the making.

Shipspotting can be something more than a passive activity if one  very seriously get to it.
This website should make room for shipspotting opportunities it could only help the general interest!

Thousands  if not millions of birds pictures are  published and sold each year why not ships pictures.

[Jeff Thoreson]

New Wagenborg Shipping vessel ELBEBORG was seen from Quebec Bridge under the best of lights! She was bound upstream  fully laden for Chicago. I delay  for some time my posting the great photos in the hope to sell exclusive rights to the owners. 

There are many beautiful photos of her already on this site. I doubt the owners have purchased the rights to them.

[Robert Smith]

Jean,

These owners habitually have professional (aerial) pictures made of each vessel prior to entering service for marketing purposes. So I don't think they're very interested to purchase your view from the bridge ....

Ciao,
Rob.

 

[Tomas]

No need to laugh really, i have sold pictures to companies all over the world, and my shots aint that much to brag about, but Wagenborg dont buy, they had interest in getting my shot of Fraserborg for free.
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1279126



Dont give up/in.

Tomas

[Jean Hemond]

 Hi Thomas!  From looking at some of them, I can very well understand shipping companies interest in your pictures!
Aerials  of ships in action and under great light. Not exactly the usual posts across the web!

[Jean Hemond]

 Hi Robert! Thanks for your rightful comment: it is  very true to the effect that shipyard have their ship photographed with helicopters   during  trials and they hand those to ship owners as part of the shipbuilding contract specs.

Some times the light is OK  for good pictures but rarely they have exceptional conditions like a filtered sunlight.

But  even then those  "very costly captions" are  not  in general representative of  the ship in effective operation. (Ship at work and in action is the motto of the  local tug company.)

 That is ; loaded with real cargo and proceeding  through sea  with some waves (not my case here)

Some time the ship is proceeding through ice or (rough weather ) if one gets  well organized and very lucky .

Marketing   with lousy texts and drab lousy pictures is to my opinion at best counter productive!

Only the best quality stand out in this world!

But  it a fact that old fashioned conservative (and very tight with spendings without regards to results) shipping companies are rather slow to grasp this fact. (Most of their  website photos are small thumb size, dark uninformative and do not generate  interest.)  

And  I might add that a shipping company is only worth what somebody else would be ready to pay for it!

So I am in the opinion that the fleet being their major asset it is well worth  for shipowners, spending what is I think very little money for  well above average photos in light of the impact on their visibility.

At least that is what my clients tell me!

One should only see what those companies,  ship owners, shipyards and marine equipment are spending in shows around the world. I personally attended and went to  more than a hundred of shows and conferences in Europe and North-America. That is Offshore, fishing boats, tugs, ferry, cruise-ships ports etc  etc!
They for some spend above a million dollars for a single show, I once had actual figures for Offshore OTC  for organizing a stand !

I think there is much room for us shipspotters to cover some of our expenses since usual photographers are not in a position to meet competition.

 

[Jean Hemond]

No reply from WAGENBORG !
Here is the link to a watermarked sample of the set.
http://flic.kr/p/a2NmPg

[Robert Smith]

Hi Jean,

As a matter of fact, I do  have some of the trial pictures in my possession but copyright prohibits circulation. They have a very good quality.
I've been in the shipping industry for over 30 years and can assure you that in the present dire straits owners are trying to save every nickel and dime. That includes publicity. Spending millions of dollars on publicity nowadays  is the prerogative of the cruise industry, and other multimillion dollar earners. Regretfully, owners in most shipping markets do not earn enough these days to allow any extravaganza ....

Krgds,
Robert. 

[Jean Hemond]

Yes Robert you are right on both points!
The trial aerial photo posted by the yard is exceptional and great!
Your opinion on the shipping companies is also very true.
But showing one's unfailing strength  with an economy of effort is  often the best strategy for marathon athletes in though uphill lengths.
Our photos pricing is not exactly a burden for shipping companies. I would even rather vouch for a major economy over their usual practices of subcontracting.