Pic(k) of the week 22: LOST AT SEA

June 01, 2021

Pic(k) of the week 22: LOST AT SEA - Umm al Quwain, UAE

Last week I announced, WIDE, a new project where I shot the Fujifilm GFX100S in a 65:24 panorama aspect ratio. This week, I'm announcing a new project where the images were all shot without really seeing the connection between them until a certain body of work was there. Do not always thing that a project is known from the very start.

"LOST A SEA" is a collection of aerial images of ships and aircraft that didn't quite make it and therefore were lost at sea, sometimes going back more than 80 years; e.g. Battle of Dunkerque, WWII.

While it is relatively easy to find the name and history of the ships found in Europe, it seems much harder here locally in the UAE.

Typically for these type of images, one will often want to photograph them at low tide. Not every low tide is as low as the other however. Typically around a full and new moon, tides are the most extreme (spring-tides). Whenever there is a supermoon, like last week, the tides are even more extreme.

I normally also try to time the shoot so that the low tide is close to a good time for photography; for some that is early morning for others late afternoon, depending on the orientation. All of this makes that these shoots are often planned months in advance, within the restrictions of personal travel of course.

Last week, I added another ship to my collection which was found at the Northern tip of Umm al Quwain (Northern Emirates, UAE). While it clearly has been there for some time, online research has not produced any results so far to answer the what, when and how.

I shot a series of images and eventually choose the one below shot from a higher altitude for this weeks Pic(k) as it provides a good overview of the entire environment.

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