Give us your best shot

[toesup]

Post a single pic that you think is your best shot of either a model or real boat.

Here is one to start you off....

[avidjeepr]

Here's mine.

[Ghost 2501]

This one of mine, my favourite ship taken from a low angle.

[in-d-boat]

One of my favorite boats that I have. 34" scratch-built.

[Kmot]

I have so many 'best shots' I could never pick just one overall best shot. It would take me too many days to go through my folders. :rolleyes:

Here is one of my B&W which are sort of limited in supply.

[gpzy]

Here is one of my favorites.

[Deestingray]

Here is an old shot of my Riviera 80. I quite likey........

[woodybob]

Eenie, meenie, minie, moe;

Off the coast of Oxnard, CA., early eighties.

[patmat2350]

Skipjacks racing at Solomons Island, MD, in front of the Calvert Marine Museum. The models are a standard class, about 4 feet long.
One of the local watermen took me out in a rowboat so I could get the blue-crab's eye level shots.
2005

[joe31hat]

First attempt at model boat building... I like it!!!

[MUG1982]

Eenie, meenie, minie, moe;

Off the coast of Oxnard, CA., early eighties.


February 2006 I was standing on top of what was left of that wreck!

They left a lot of the hull there as a sort of wall.

[quicksilver]

This is still my favorite shot.

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

I think #17 from 2004 would qualify..
Seven AM at Sutherlin, Oregon, before breakfast.

[MILLERTIME]

My Sanibel at sunset, taken with a slow Shutter speed to freeze the water.

[tsenecal]

the most recent photo of my favorite "boat"

[gary r uk]

guys
global warming
gary

[AndyKunz]

I thought Global Warming is supposed to raise the oceans?!?!

Great shots. I'm going to try to remember to scan mine and post it tonight.

Andy

[boater_dave]

How do you pick just one favorite?

Dave

[Jerome Morris]

This is one I just finished restoring

[Kmot]

How do you pick just one favorite?

Dave
I find that to be impossible too!

[charlie eaton]

SIGH!!! A long long time ago.

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

Charlie your a handsome man! :o

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I thought Global Warming is supposed to raise the oceans?!?!
Andy

It is, but they keep watering lawns in Las Vegas... it strikes a balance. :p
There was an Ice Age.... the earth is warmer.... When you see dinosaurs,
You will know that the earth is as hot as it can get. ;)
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All nice one shotters guys...
My most recent favorite pic from this Summer...

[toesup]

I find that to be impossible too!

I know its impossible... :o

[Swift16]

R/C U-boat on the surface at the Carmel, IN reflecting pond and USS Brooks (APD-10) R/C model. I must have a "night fixation"!
John

[Ghost 2501]

speaking of photoshop, here's a before and after i did of an American member's pic of his beloved bizmark

to get the muzzel flash I took a pic off Google of a guy in a gun club letting fly with an M16 rifle and put the muzzleflash onto the cannon.

the sea and sky were also transposed onto the original image to hide the cafe behind, topped off with a movie style "periscope" view

[gpzy]

Three more from me.

[Ghost 2501]

and two more from me,

[Prins Willem]

I just spent 20 minutes going through "My Pictures" and guess what, pick a best/favorite shot, not likely. I chose the picture I use as my desktop on this computer. The boat being offset is perfect as there are no icons near it to spoil the photo.

[Norway2112]

Here's all I got right now....Great idea btw...some cool stuff is sure to surface!

Phillip

Str. Delta Queen, up bound on the Ohio River from Louisville, KY 9-27-07.

[dostacos]

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x94/Dostacos/BB2.jpg

[boater_dave]

If we get to choose more than one...

[MUG1982]

Well if people are gonna put in more...I shalt follow suit, submitting my Smasher DD.

Kevin

[arrow5]

Favourite full-size ship photo...got to be this show-off maneouver by Royal Navy`s through-deck carrier HMS Invincible. French carrier Clemenceau`s crew were not amused by +30knot turn :rolleyes:

[Hoghappy]

One shot is not feasible...there are too many.

Here is one of my old favorites.

Below was actually 3 shots taped together from my Kodak 110 pocket camera. A Soviet cruiser off Iran during the botched hostage rescue back in the mid 70's. Notice my ships shadow on the cruiser...also notice the crew is in formation aft...they pulled a GQ and manned, then trained all there weapons on us...we did not respond. We couldn't due too much even if we wanted to...most of our systems were down after a long cruise and the parts plane was down for parts too. No wonder the rescue failed! Our military was in sad shape back then. :(

[Swift16]

Official US Navy shot of USS Stennis (CVN-74) off Alaska.

John

[Boatfox]

They used boats to leave.

Chaiten Volcano.
Not sure who gets the credit for the shot, but it is AMAZING

[Ghost 2501]

They used boats to leave.

Chaiten Volcano.
Not sure who gets the credit for the shot, but it is AMAZING


PC WALLPAPER!!!!!! :) :) :)

[ScottOram]

One of the 1/144 and one of 1/1

[Aerominded]

It appears as if mother nature has some sort of grievance... :eek: :p

[sergio_Italy]

ok guys, let me join you ... :D

[Boatfox]

Sorry about the above...should have been able to SEE the boat as per the threads request.
Mother nature toys with us.....

[Boatfox]

My favorite...
Can someone PLEASE scale this to my models??

[Prins Willem]

My favorite...
Can someone PLEASE scale this to my models??

Try 240 volts to your ESC :D

[EricPW]

Here are my two favorites.

[bigford]

dont know the guy :) umi posted this a while ago
but i laugh every time i see it
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/bigfordf550/mikeharterSmall.jpg

nothing screams more power then a shot like this
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/bigfordf550/thunder-horse-transport.jpg

same haul. i think its the bluemarlin hauling thunderhorse
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/bigfordf550/Blue_Marlin_carrying_Thunder_Horse_.jpg

[joe31hat]

My friends off shore race boat!!

[gpzy]

A couple more.

[tigerbay]

My 1/15 model of a Mary J Ward schooner, modified.
The last two were taken in a good wind and the latter shows the water riding up the side of the hull nicley.

[Kmot]

Some 'go fast' stuff...

[MILLERTIME]

Really great shots Guy’s.
I like the green boat jumping out of the water!!!

[Mule One]

For speed ... I like this. :D

[Jerome Morris]

I can not believe the amount of ship and boat photos that all have collected out there.
They are all fabulous, some more then others.
Thanks for showing them.

[Prins Willem]

If all ye scurvy dogs yonder posted all their photo booty we be scuttlin da server.

(Talk like a pirate day)

[Hannu Vuorinen]

Hi,

Few shots of our Aquacraft Bristol Bay´s and my 69" Bl- powered Riva along with neighbour´s
1/4 scale Piper Cub

BR,

Hannu

[Aerominded]

Riva and Supercub... does it get any better than that? :)

[D Anderson]

This one's sort of a cross between model and real boat. I did not have my parent's to be driving this boat, making this my personal favorite.

[Ghost 2501]

here's Gemini in some REAL water :)

[Aerominded]

driving this boat (without the parents)

I remember that feeling!

Half :eek: and half :cool:

;)

[Prins Willem]

I'm going to post a non-boat picture to demonstrate how often it is better to be lucky than good.

A few weeks ago my brother and me were driving up US 41 in Dodge Co. WI. My brother was driving and I was shotgun. He glanced to the right at a farm coming up and mentioned how the scene would make a great jigsaw puzzle. I had my camera out so I swung it up and took a shot. This photo is through the passenger window of a car moving 65+ MPH (real speed withheld for 5th amendment reasons).

It is now the desktop picture on my computer at work. My boss told me to go cut down the bush in the front and take the picture again.

[Polar Sailor]

You said model or real. These are real, but soon to be model... I have an empty hull all set to become WAGB-10 over the next few years - the whole reason I got into ship modelling. I can't wait to one day have a fully RC model of the ship I served on to show my child (If I am lucky enough to make one - a child, that is).

[Polar Sailor]

I just have to share more - I have thousands if anyone wants to see more...

[jeepers1940]

Brow? Is that like a gangplank?

[Polar Sailor]

Brow? Is that like a gangplank?

It is :)

[785boats]

My cheap brushless cat conversion with a bit too much air under it.

[frankg]

:) This is my favorite picture from our recent club outing. This is my scratch built DODGE speed boat, showing off for the club members. :D

[Gary Mullens]

Here is a boat I scratch built a few years back. Sure miss this one.

[Ghost 2501]

what happenned to it?

[gpzy]

Here is one freh out of the camera.

[SD rc boater]

Polar Sailor,

Thanks for posting the pics of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers/research ships.

Awesome stuff! Please post more. :D

[Le petit normand]

:( :(

[toesup]

:( :(

ST 4?.. :confused:

That one doesnt appear in my Lekko book on the ST series...
Where did you find that Le Petit?.. :eek:

[Polar Sailor]

Polar Sailor,

Thanks for posting the pics of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers/research ships.

Awesome stuff! Please post more. :D

:)
OK, but I don't want to hijack the thread too much, so just one more for now.

[boater_dave]

How about this for a different modeling idea? To get the submarines from the shipyard in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to the ocean, they put them on a floating drydock and pushed it down the Mississippi river with the tug Kansas City. A great subject in 1:72 scale with the new Revell sub. Of course the tug had to come up river with the empty drydock to carry the next sub.
If anyone happens to have plans for that tug I am interested!

Dave

[Le petit normand]

ST 4?.. :confused:

That one doesnt appear in my Lekko book on the ST series...
Where did you find that Le Petit?.. :eek:

On the river called La Seine near Paris in France

[Mac Obsessed]

Ok ,I've been tempted and got out two pictures....
The first one is a Herreshoff 12 1/2 coming into the mooring field at the Herreshoff Museum in Bristol, RI.
The second is one of hundreds of pictures my friend and I took of my footy Logix

Hope you like 'em! :D

[LONGBIKE]

Two of my best shots.

[toesup]

On the river called La Seine near Paris in France

It looks very high in the water, i wonder if the engines have been removed?

Can you find out any more information?... a name?.. or its original ST number?..

[charlie eaton]

It looks very high in the water, i wonder if the engines have been removed?

Can you find out any more information?... a name?.. or its original ST number?..

Toes,looks to me like a convesion to a house boat with all the large windows along the flanks I doubt if it still has an engine in it.

[Swift16]

"Fast Eddie" can get more out of regular electric motors than you would imagine. He holds over 10 world speed records at last count with his own-design fast electrics!

Brian Brozek photo.

[wmcneal]

Awesome shots guys. I think my Theodore tugboat in front of the fountain is my favorite, but I also like these shots of my shrimp trawler.

[fgroza]

My sub at Carmel in the reflecting pool.

[pkboo]

One of the seasons that seem to inspire some of us :cool: It's my first digital camera bought in 2005 in NY. I use to take pics from a Canon AE1 and this is a Panasonic Lumix, I can make short vids (mem card) with it too :D Boo

[Rex R]

here are a couple from this years 'mazo challenge'

[Le petit normand]

It looks very high in the water, i wonder if the engines have been removed?

Can you find out any more information?... a name?.. or its original ST number?..

ST 478 apparently

I can also tell you where is the ST 488 if you want to :p

[toesup]

ST 478 apparently

I can also tell you where is the ST 488 if you want to :p

ST 478
1944 Built by American Machinery Corp, Orlando, Fl (Build No. 20) with a Clark engine
1948 ST 4- Port Autonome du Havre
1981 Became a house boat at Surenes (Paris West)

ST 488
1944 Built by J.K. Welding Co., Brooklyn, NY. (Build No. 81) with a Enterprise engine
1948 ST 8- Port Autonome du Havre
1989 Laid up
1993 ST 488 Association Remorquer USST 488 (museumtug) at Le Havre.

:p:p:p

[Habanero]

Awesome shots guys. I think my Theodore tugboat in front of the fountain is my favorite, but I also like these shots of my shrimp trawler.I like the last one I grew up on the Gulf Coast that's the first RC one I've seen.

[seaphoto]

Here is a bigger version of the shot I use for my avatar, I kinda like it. It is my 1/96 scale model of the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53).

[seaphoto]

Here are a few other shots I have taken over the years...


Enjoy!


Kurt

[SD rc boater]

Kurt,

Great pics! Thanks for posting. I like the lights on the hull of CV-16, and you are right the colors are very rich on the CV-64 pic. The Foss tug is awesome.

You must have been up on "the Gate" taking pictures on some of those shots. Great place to take pictures from.

Question; Where was the pic of Dave's USS San Diego taken?

[ray285]

this is my ken mackenzie tug! towing a chip barge also made by me (the barge is 5ft loa x 2ft beam
regards ray

[Le petit normand]

ST 478
1944 Built by American Machinery Corp, Orlando, Fl (Build No. 20) with a Clark engine
1948 ST 4- Port Autonome du
1981 Became a house boat at Surenes (Paris West)

ST 488
1944 Built by J.K. Welding Co., Brooklyn, NY. (Build No. 81) with a Enterprise engine
1948 ST 8- Port Autonome du Havre
1989 Laid up
1993 ST 488 Association Remorquer USST 488 (museumtug) at Le Havre.

:p:p:p


OK it was way to easy for you let's try something harder ... :D

[Jerome Morris]

Looks like a sunken barge breakwater.

[Le petit normand]

Looks like a sunken barge breakwater.
phoenix

[charlie eaton]

At Normandy??

[Le petit normand]

At Normandy??

Mulberry B (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour)

I took this picture in January 2007, I am always amazed when I see the bay each time i go there

[seaphoto]

Question; Where was the pic of Dave's USS San Diego taken?

Hi Gary, that was taken at a private pond a few miles away from where he lives. They chased us out soon after LOL. Too bad, it is a nice place to run with some really neat rock formations that look a bit like Fjords

The Connie and the Foss tug were taken from the Golden Gate Bridge. I'll be up there again in a couple of weeks photographing Fleet Week again

Kurt

[P_J_Glor]

I didn't take this one, but find it amazing. No, this is not a Fast Electric heat race, but the real thing. It is my understanding teh driver being ejected from his boat lived.

Pete G.

[Hoghappy]

Woooaaaahhhhhh! Now that is a great pic. What is that on his head..his helmet coming off? Man...that had to hurt! :eek:

[SD rc boater]

Thanks Kurt. Great pics. Got any more good ones?

Look closely at the picture of the guy crashing the race boat and walking on the water. His right shoe is the item 2nd to his left between he and the boat. He is milliseconds from doing the forced splits. That definitely had to hurt! Hurts me just looking at it. :eek:

HogHappy,

You are right it does look like his helmet is coming off of his head.

[bigford]

your boats fast,but i'm faster!!! :eek: ouch