Author: derekwoods14

Yo! Just found your blog and I must say it’s stunning! You handle that M6 with ease and have some cracking shots. I’m saving for one now. What film & lab do you use? The colours are gorgeous. I did a 365 in 2012 and although rewarding it was tough in the end. I wish you luck.

Howdy and thank you so much!! 

I did the project because I wanted to really get myself super familiar with the M6 and also to push myself to see candid stuff the same as I see my staged work. So far its been tough, as you say, but fun. 

I use all Kodak Portra 400 film. I get it all processed at Kodak Digital Image Center in Glendale CA. The guys there are amazing. 

05.04.14 The Queen Marry.

RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (known as Cunard-White Star when the vessel entered service). Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, Queen Mary along with her running mate, the RMS Queen Elizabeth, were built as part of Cunard’s planned two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg, and New York City. The two ships were a British response to the superliners built by German and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Queen Mary was the flagship of the Cunard Line from May 1936 until October 1946 when she was replaced in that role by Queen Elizabeth. The vessel also held the Blue Riband from 1936 to 1937 and then from 1938 to 1952 when she was beaten by the new SS United States.

Queen Mary sailed on her maiden voyage on 27 May 1936 and captured the Blue Riband in August of that year; she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937 and recaptured it in 1938. With the outbreak of World War II, she was converted into a troopship and ferried Allied soldiers for the duration of the war. Following the war, Queen Mary was refitted for passenger service and along with Queen Elizabeth commenced the two-ship transatlantic passenger service for which the two ships were initially built. The two ships dominated the transatlantic passenger transportation market until the dawn of the jet age in the late 1950s. By the mid-1960s Queen Mary was aging and though still among the most popular transatlantic liners, was operating at a loss.