![]() ![]() Such conditions were rare for the area, occurring only a few times every fall and winter, but for ferries of this size they were not considered to be severe. There were various forecasts, and they tended to agree: an intense low-pressure system near Oslo was moving quickly to the east, and was expected to drag rain and strong winds across the route, stirring up waves occasionally as high as twenty feet. Gentle swells rolled in from the west, indicating the sea's unease-with significance probably only to the crew, which had received storm warnings for the open water ahead but had not spread the news. Passengers hardy enough to withstand the wind and cold on deck would have seen gray forested islands creeping by to the north, and to the south the long industrial shoreline of Estonia giving way to a low coast darkening until it faded into the night. For the first several hours, as dusk turned to night, it moved through sheltered coastal waters. It departed from its home port, Tallinn, at around 7:15 P.M., and proceeded on its regular run, 258 miles and fifteen hours west across open waters to the Swedish archipelago and Stockholm. On the night of its demise the Estonia had 989 people aboard. In this case, however, it did not-and indeed it caused the ship to capsize and sink when it came open in the storm and then fell entirely off. At sea that bow was supposed to remain closed and locked. In port the car deck was accessed through a special openable bow that could be raised to allow vehicles to drive in and out. It also had a car deck that stretched from bow to stern through the hull's insides. It had labyrinths of cabins, a swimming pool and sauna, a duty-free shop, a cinema, a casino, a video arcade, a conference center, three restaurants, and three bars. It was a massive steel vessel, 510 feet long and nine decks high, with accommodations for up to 2,000 people. The ship was the pride of the newly independent Estonian nation, recently arisen from the Soviet ruins. If you are looking for a reverse image search tutorial, I have done a brief tutorial here.A fter midnight, in the first hours of September 28, 1994, the ferry Estonia foundered in the waves of a Baltic storm. If you have ever had an image stolen, let me know in the comments. ![]() Of the many, my preferred choice at the moment is Copytrack. I wrote a review of them over at Light Stalking. These days I use a copyright enforcement agency to to track down and claim compensation on stolen images. Check out just how and why this images was stolen in the following video. This makes it virtually impossible to stop infringement, a serious situation for a stock travel photographer. Now a Google reverse image search show well in excess or 20 pages of results for this image alone. At first with wallpaper sites, then more widespread, to the point where a major 24 hour tv news company is using the shot illegally. This image went viral on 500px in 2013 and from there, the copyright theft became rampant. Cruise ship beside massive tabular iceberg in Antarctica My Most Stolen Image. ![]() In the first of the series I look at this image, A Sense of Scale. To highlight the depth of this problem I have started a video series looking at some of my images that have been extensively stolen. It’s a problem whose scale is virtually impossible to comprehend. One of the biggest issues in travel photography is stolen images. These are difficult and troubling times in travel photography. Covid-19 has seen many freelance photographer’s incomes drop to zero as the effects of lockdown begin to bite.
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