When Worlds Collide (20) - 4 July 2020

It is more than two years since I last added to my series 'When Worlds Collide' which, simply, shows cruise ships in unexpected settings. In 2020 the world's cruise ships all found themselves in unexpected settings far from the itineraries or ports they had imagined for 2020, the year coronavirus changed lives and livelihoods.

While no fewer than six ships crowded Weymouth Bay, three were at anchor off Bournemouth. Haze and drizzle had made it impractical to photograph these earlier in the day and Marella Explorer and Marella Explorer 2 remained less easy to see clearly than P&O Aurora which I shot on an evening walk using the structures on Bournemouth Pier to frame the slightly ghostly figure of the ship.

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