Naval Ships of the World - Post Yours

[JohnPD]

I have hundreds of shots especially of the USS Massachusetts including areas that are not open to the public and will be posting a sample of them. I also have lots of shots from my time on the USS Independence a carrier and the photo lab on board

Here is the main room in the Indy's photo lab and I got to take lots of great and fun jobs

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Pretty unique shots. I take it you were in an aircraft here?

 

[JohnPD]

Me when a LOT younger

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Great portrait. Looking good.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Of course not all was fun and games, we had to do plane and chopper crashes and autopsies and car accidents etc

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Pretty unique shots. I take it you were in an aircraft here?

Yes Sea King chopper

One of our choppers

 

[JohnPD]

Of course not all was fun and games, we had to do plane and chopper crashes and autopsies and car accidents etc

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The shots are great but that looks pretty serious, no doubt lives were lost.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

In the Med 1976

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

The shots are great but that looks pretty serious, no doubt lives were lost.

the 3 man crew all were lost.

 

[JohnPD]

the 3 man crew all were lost.

Yeah, that's sad.

 

[JohnPD]

Jeff, how do you digitise your photos?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I ran the color darkroom in addition to shooting jobs. Loved doing the color work.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Jeff, how do you digitise your photos?

Since I shot mostly slides for my own work I use a Plustech 8200i slide and neg scanner. I still have more to find and digitize. It is cheaper than sending them out in the long run. I also got all my grandparents slides that my aunt took in the 40's 50's and 60's as well as negs from the 30's and have digitized them.

Which reminds me, winter is going too fast and I need to spend more time digitizing old photos so the my boys will have them.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I also collect TEAK from US Navy ships including the USS Constitution.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

The USS Massachusetts in dry dock, 1999

 

[Darren75]

Great thread! Jeff, your images are amazing.

 

[JohnPD]

I ran the color darkroom in addition to shooting jobs. Loved doing the color work.

Looks impressive.
When I was young we all did B&W because colour was too difficult to develop ourselves.

Since I shot mostly slides for my own work I use a Plustech 8200i slide and neg scanner. I still have more to find and digitize. It is cheaper than sending them out in the long run. I also got all my grandparents slides that my aunt took in the 40's 50's and 60's as well as negs from the 30's and have digitized them.

Which reminds me, winter is going too fast and I need to spend more time digitizing old photos so the my boys will have them.

I have some old pics that I would like to digitise but the Plustech is too pricy, I don't want it that much. I used a flatbed scanner before and it worked but some pics show some weird grid-like pattern. I should just photograph them.