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Shipspotters all over the world => Shipping News and information => Topic started by: Jean Hemond on June 29, 2011, 11:36:36 PM
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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.
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Keep on dreaming ;-)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
8)
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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
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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!
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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.
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No reply from WAGENBORG !
Here is the link to a watermarked sample of the set.
http://flic.kr/p/a2NmPg
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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.
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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.