Closing of a digital circle

August 27, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Limfjorden 2017

Aarhus 2002

Cuxhaven 2017

Aarhus 2002

When I recently, a wet and dull afternoon photographed THOMSON CELEBRATION departing Aalborg from a grass field at the bank of Limfjorden, I somehow was “closing the circle”. With that photo-shoot my very latest and my very oldest photo file captured with a digital camera now features the same ship. I realised that when I […]

Five years of Samsø ferries

December 11, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

SAMSØ appears behind a field at the new Ballen ferry harbour.

The new established harbour south of Ballen servicing Danske Færger’s east-route to Kalundborg opened 2015.

The new harbour also features a beautiful designed terminal building with a viewing platform.

SAMSØ departs Ballen a December afternoon.

And now heading towards Zeeland and Kalundborg.

Municipality-owned LNG-powered PRINSESSE ISABELLA photographed from the hill Dyret (The beast or maybe just the animal).

PRINSESSE ISABELLA, here under its original name SAMSØ, arrives Sælvig form Jutland.

The naming of Samsø’s present ferries is a bit complicated. The municipality of Samsø introduced their new building in 2014 with the obvious name SAMSØ, promotion the local community, but later renamed it after the second oldest child of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, Princess Isabella, born 2007. Danske Færger quickly snapped the name to their ferry on the east-route, formerly named KANHAVE after an old man-made channel from the Viking age on the island.

Back in 2011 Danske Færger traded under the brand Nordic Ferry Service on both the east- and west-route. Here the ferry KYHOLM on the Zeeland line heading south off Samsø towards the small harbour at Kolby Kaas, used for the east-route until the opening of the new Ballen facility.

These two KYHOLM-photos are photographed from the Vesborg Lighthouse located on the southernmost tip of the island. The name Kyholm originate from a small-uninhabited island northeast of Samsø.

KYHOLM at Kolby Kaas in Nordic Ferry Service livery with a funnel logo inspired by a rope.

KANHAVE was originally built to the west-route. Here the ferry arrives at Sælvig from Hou back in 2011.

KANHAVE again two years later.

Here berthed in Sælvig.

Now KYHOLM rebranded in the livery of Danske Færger in 2013.

The ferry is photographed from the coastline just east of Kolby Kaas harbour a December morning.

Finally a few shots from the northernmost part of the island, Issehoved, overlooking the Aarhus fairway, Djursland and another un-inhabited island, Hjelm.

Mols-Linien’s fast ferries between Aarhus and Zeeland pass close to Issehoved.

Car ferries to both Jutland and Zeeland connect the Kattegat island of Samsø. The west-route to Hou 30 km south of Aarhus and the east-route to Kalundborg 100 km from Copenhagen. Both lines are public subsidised, or owned – and underwent several changes in operators, ports and tonnage the past five years.

MSC OPERA off Grenen (Skagen vol. I)

October 9, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

One of several cruise ships, which on a daily basis pass Grenen – the northern-most tip of Denmark, during the summer season. A small series from a lovely July evening photographed from one of the dunes.

Sletterhage Lighthouse

July 20, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

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The draught of bigger ships calling Port of Aarhus force them to pass through the fairway very close to Sletterhage Lighthouse on the southern-most tip of the Djursland peninsula. Therefore the area surrounding the lighthouse offers great, but with the direct southerly orientation, also challenging opportunities for maritime photography. In recent years Sletterhage Lighthouse has […]

Hirtshals aerials

July 10, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

As described in a previous post I used one of the top floors at the Hotel Neptun, located directly at the waterfront of Warnemünde, as a photo platform earlier this summer. Back in March I did the same, but at the newly built “Seafront” extension of Hotel Hirtshals. The choice of March instead of the […]

Classic Sisters on Display

June 26, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

The small town Hals at the Kattegat-entrance to the Limfjorden is appointed as new layup-base for the two vintage state icebreakers DANBJØRN and ISBJØRN, both awaiting a buyer. An third slightly younger fleet mate, THORBJØRN, from the now total decommissioned Royal Danish Navy-operated icebreaker fleet, is already sold to a private owner in Svendborg. The […]

An eventful hour (Port of Aarhus vol. I)

June 12, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.