Thank you polyrus for posting such wonderful material. Indeed OM1/OM2 were top-of-the-line SLRs at the time, and handy-sized too.

Dear Chris,
I am currently going through my old slides and I only have a few more ships, and none anywhere near as good as this of the Australis unfortunately. (plus a couple of Timaru port from the air, but the ships on them appear too small to submit on this site).

Dear Neil

Hope to see some more of these and I had an Olympus in 80's, the OM2 was a very good camera then, the lens as good or superior tot he Nikons and Canons of the day.

She was an older "version" of the UNITED STATES but not in final and overall so well like her successor; but this small remark should be only considered as to her year of built ( original AMERICA 1939/ UNITED STATES 1953).
A wonderful photo of a great passenger liner and utmost beautiful colors on this pic.
Thanks for sharing,Polyrus.

Thank you Chris & Clive for the positive comments. The conditions played a major part and so did good old Kodachrome which produced good crisp colours as I was able to go down to an f16 on my then new Olympus OM2.
Neil Harvey

Excellent photo and largest ship to berth at Timaru up to that time.

Over the years I have seen many photos of Australis but I think that I can honestly say that this is the very best of them all. All down to a perfect subject in perfect lighting.