Triangular Thematic Photography

When I saw Carmi's triangular theme I searched the house for something that matched. All I could find was this souvenir of my time in Norway.

Viking ship

Looking for other triangular shapes was more difficult until I remember a photoshoot undertaken for a different reason.

Hope House - blue plaque

OK, I know the plaque is rectangular but you can't say the same about Hope House itself, dwarfed by the railway viaduct in the North Yorkshire town of Yarm.

Hope House (For Sale)

I started this post in Norway so I'll finish there as well with a shot I'hope you don't get hooked upon.

Ugland Crane with a load from Rosenberg Verft, Stavanger

On second thoughts I found an appropriate ship with which to end. 

SS Norway, docked in Stavanger

How many triangles have I shown? I'll let you count them, and others at Carmi's Thematic Photographic 166 triangular.

Docked - Thematic Photography

My posts this weekend all have a Norway theme (Sepia Saturday at Rosenberg Verft, and Ula First Day for Sunday Stamps). I have maintained the connection with these photos from Stavanger taken in the 1980s.

Beached for the winter at Stokkavatnet

SS Norway visited Stavanger and drew a large crowd of onlookers at the harbour which is right in the centre of town.

Escorted in.

Docked.

Framed by the dockside crane.

Carmi's theme this week is By land, sea or air ; check out others taking part.

A Mystery Tour? - Sepia Saturday

It may seem strange that a tour with a nautical flavour starts at a pub in the village where I was born.

The Railway Inn at Ketton, Rutland

Suitable refreshed our next stop is on the North Yorkshire Moors to get directions from a sailor who knew his way around the world.

Captain Cook's Monument

Before we go too far I want us to stop in the town of Fowey on Cornwall's south coast for a pint or two with the King of Prussia.

But we don't want to arrive on a day like this.

While we are there you may want to take a trip across the river to see the house in which Daphne du Maurier wrote her first novel, The Loving Spirit.

 

Ferryside

Look closely at the right-hand edge of the house, almost touching the trees. You should be able to see the figurehead  from the schooner Jane Slade; Daphne was inspired to write her book after discovering the wreck of the schooner in the nearby Pont Creek.

If you are inspired by figureheads then you might want to travel on to the Scilly Isles and check out the maritime museum in Tresco Abbey Gardens.

Now it's time for us to go further afield and call at Copenhagen and see what sailors fantasised about.

The Little Mermaid

However it is Stavanger in  Norway that is our final port of call.

The Square in Stavanger in 1913 leading to the quayside (source - unknown)

Of course it looked different in the 1980s when SS Norway was in town.

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[King of Prussia photos by courtesy of  Ade; the rest excluding the sepia of Stavanger are down to me.]