Poll for January 2025:Tony Secker's Photos as QE2 Photographer 1970s 80s & 1991

[June Ingram]

The theme for the January 2025 Competition is "Tony Secker's Photos as QE2 Photographer (1970s 1980s & 1991)". This competition features some of the photos taken by Tony and shared with us.

Please vote for your five favourite photos. As this is a special competition with such a powerful selection of photos, we felt that voting for just three would not be enough! This is the third monthly competition of the 2026 calendar year, with winning and runner-up photos going towards the 2026 QE2 Story Calendar.

Voting is easy, but you need to be registered as a Forum member and log into the Forum to vote.  Please choose your five favourites, noting the details, then tick the relevant boxes on the poll.

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To make it easier for you, we have posted the pictures below.

However, you might like to turn to the Gallery Album, "Tony Secker's Photos as QE2 Photographer (1970s and 1980s)", where you can see them all at once, in thumbnail form. Plus you can view larger versions of the pictures by clicking on the photos to see them in medium size, and clicking once more for large size.

https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=315

You will not see the results of the vote until the poll closes on 1 February 2025, after all time zones have had a chance to catch up with the voting deadline.

Enjoy the great variety of the photos. Choose your five favourites, and let's aim for a record number of voters for this month's competition. Thanks in advance for voting and supporting the competition.

[June Ingram]

Sail Away from New York May 4 1987 QE2 “ Maiden Voyage"


QE2 Southern California 1983


QE2 in Black and White


QE2 Leaving Honolulu


QE2 Steams around Diamond Head Honolulu En Route to Japan


QE2 Enhancing the Scenery at Geirangerfjord


QE2 Reflections


QE2 Transits Geirangerfjord 1980


QE2's First Transit of the Suez Canal


QE2 Sails through the Lock Gates 1979 or 1980


QE2 Panama Canal


QE2 Sailing from New York


QE2 Sunset at the Verrazano Narrows Bridge 1989


QE2 at Speed


QE2 Suez Canal 1980 World Cruise


QE2 Panama Canal 1979


Beauty at Sea


QE2 Sailing to Sydney


Sydney Welcomes QE2


QE2 1991 World Cruise Australia


Icons QE2, Sydney Bridge and Opera House


QE2 Sydney Harbour Welcome


QE2 1991 Sailing into Sydney


QE2 Phuket ( Patong Bay ) Thailand 1989 World Cruise


1989 World Cruise Pattaya Thailand

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Welcome to one of the best photo competition we have run so far!

Here are 25 photos from the Tony Secker collection, which you can vote on . Please enjoy these beautiful photos of QE2 at great moments of her career and in extraordinary locations. Tony had the privilege of being able to take photos of QE2 from the air, showing her at speed and doing what she was best that. Enjoy her fabulous shape and the memories of these world cruises.

[pete cain]

for once I thought that I would get in early & vote  , impossible to do with these fine quality one off photos,  this will take time methinks

[Peter Mugridge]

Voted, after as usual being turned into a gibbering wreck at having to choose only five out all those, each of which should win in themselves...

Incidentally... "QE2 Sails through the Lock Gates 1979 or 1980" I think is 1979; the crew on the bow appear to be the same people in the same order as in the other picture six images lower "QE2 Panama Canal 1979".  Additionally, from looking closely at the degree of movement of the lock gates, I think that second picture was taken mere seconds after the first.

[Lynda Bradford]

Thanks Peter and Pete, I can understand your dilemma trying to choose just five favourites.  You can imagine how we felt trying to choose only 25 to include in the poll.... not easy!

Thanks Peter for your observation on the Panama Canal photos.  Tony Secker will hopefully be posting on the forum this month, I am sure he will be interested in your comment. 

[Lynda Bradford]

Five people have voted so far - difficult decision to choose only five favourites but an enjoyable task!