Impossible

The sun Princes is one big ship. The first time I saw her come under the gateway bridge I was amazed. I was looking for something that was half way up the footings not something that filled the whole span.

www.princess.com/learn/ships/sp/

The second thing I found was how fast she moved, she goes under the bridge under her own control with a tug hanging off the back for later and she gets along quite well.

I found her arrival times and it’s taken me a while to work out how much earlier she would come under the bridge downstream. Just when I thought I had her worked out at 50 minutes earlier she would not turn up. That’s when I worked out she is so big she has to come under on the low tide. I also found this great satellite tracking site

www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?zoom=10&mmsi=3...

Next trick was to photograph her in the low light of dawn while she was still moving but I needed a long exposure to capture her cleanly. Well that’s what they call intellectual property I guess but there are no tricks here, it’s all about timing, mud, ISO and light even if they are hours apart.

Nikon ‘s rule D300 with a sigma 10-20 mm