Queen Mary 2 cruising at hyperspeed

Posted by Aaron Schmidt (Auckland, New Zealand) on 8 March 2007 in Transportation and Portfolio.

Here she is, achieving the incredible speed of 200m in 25 seconds. This shot was taken after the Queen Mary 2 left Auckland harbour and made her way out towards the open Pacific, destination: Sydney.

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Comments (13)

Bronnie from Christchurch, New Zealand

Superb image Aaron. Would that I was on board her...

8 Mar 2007 12:12am

@Bronnie: Good thing you weren't otherwise you would have aged 20 years traveling so close to the speed of light!

Chris from Brampton, Canada

i love the streaking lines

and ive always wanted to visit new zealand

8 Mar 2007 12:27am

Daniel from Olympia, United States

Kinda cool!!

8 Mar 2007 2:09am

Jerry from Tampa, United States

Aaron - LOVE the motion and energy - very compelling image!

8 Mar 2007 5:32am

Siba from London, United Kingdom

Aaron, I love this picture! Is there any post production????

8 Mar 2007 7:20am

@Siba: None besides a small bump in saturation.

Suby from Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

VERY VERY NICELY SNAPPED. 200mph in 25 secs, wow.

8 Mar 2007 7:50am

Shiva from Kajang, Malaysia

This is a good pic! I like the streaking lines ....

8 Mar 2007 9:05am

Sandip Debnath from Bangalore, India

hooooooooooooooooooooos .. this is first impression from me when i saw this .. very nice with a long exposure ..

8 Mar 2007 9:37am

Alfredo J. Martiz J. from Tokyo, Japan

Great shot Aaron, nice motion blur!

8 Mar 2007 1:12pm

Pedro Ferreira from Portugal

Huge ship, she's been in Portugal several times, but never had the chance to snapshot it, and thanks for the advice on Palmela, after looking at it, you were absolutly wright, very good advice, thanks.

8 Mar 2007 5:56pm