misc - waiting to be filed Gallows bay Wreck - Nevis

Your many days at the beach have rewarded you with some really outstanding images. I firmly believe we all attract - or rather beckon forth - a certain type and quality of image, according to our nature. Here is a picture straight out of a good adventure yarn, something to fire the imagination.

Wonderful image.  Great colors and composition. 

Congratulations, Phil

Nice Tony, looks like a painting!

Excellent! Great composition and tones. The setting sun adds drama.

Best regards,

Alain

A beautiful but somewhat melancholy image.  We tend to give ships personalities and names to match and when one is lost, it's like missing a real character.  One can only imaging the stories this old traveler could tell.  Good stuff... Mike 

Hi Tony, I love the perspective of this capture. Good light and great sky, I agree with Mike about the somewhat sad feeling in looking at something that can never again do what it was intended for. Time waits for no one......

BR, Holger

Hi Tony,

  Stunning scene with amazing lighting & colors.  Happy New Year!! Patsy

A wonderful and striking image, very good use of DOF!

Nicely composed but there is more sharpness in the foreground than the ship drawing more attention to the foreground.  Maybe try cropping some of the bottom of the frame would work?

A very nicely composed story telling reward for your travel album.  Looks like the captain got low tide and high tide confused. :-)  Reminds me, I've got a couple of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' to watch.  Catch you later.  Happy New Year!  Len.

Many thanks for all of the positive and constructive comments which are all appreciated.

This ship was removed the following year that I visited this place.  I am guessing bad weather and mechanical problems resulted it its demise.

 

Gallows bay is quite pretty with a pleasant sandy beach most suitable for resting and then having a dip in the relatively shallow waters.  I was curious about the name of the this bay and found some of the following from "google college":

 

Gallows Bay,  located in Charlestown, is guarded by Fort Charles to the south and the long sweep of Pinneys Beach to the north.  From before 1825 when the Courthouse was build, Nevis was the central legal administration for the Eastern Caribbean and its High Court, through the British Privy Council, had powers to hang prisoners.  From the back of the Courthouse prisoners were taken across the swampy bog to where the gallows were located.  Some say that over 350 women, men and children, both the guilty and innocent, were hung and the bay provides memories of those ‘strange fruits’.

 

There was a British Captain on his way to the Americas who  stopped here at gallows Bay. He had a couple of mutineers and decided to have some compassion and hang them here at such an idyllic location. A white sandy beach with gentle trade winds, picturesque coconut trees with birds singing sweetly might have seemed like a prelude to paradise for the condemned. The captain did not hang around after his duties.      

 

 

 

Not only that subject is awesome but moment caught with this light do the magic of the image,my sincerely compliments for this work.

Happy New Year!

Lovely image. Nice use of the setting sun. The foreground really adds to the shot. Well seen and executed.

The lighting, first of all and then the scene make this picture adorable! 

 

Typical Tony Hadley picture (and it's a compliment)!

 

Cheers to that

 

PDE

A fine image Tony - and thanks for the history info as well.

Very interesting stuff . . .

 

Best, David

Tony,  Beautiful photograph... that piece of wood on the foreground, the rocks and the sea. The wonderful colours of the sky and the clouds... but the agonising ship, amazingly tragic.  Such a shuddery story!

This photo tells me a story. I like it.