Whats your first photo of QE2

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

I have mine on an external hard drive...but it's taken from the top of the piers in NYC, from Quarter Deck-up, with my mother walking in front. 21(?) December 2003.

All of TWO MEGAPIXELS!

Ah! Now, with the new photo upload facility, that should be easy! Please let us see your pic... 

[cunardqueen]

   Ah! Now, with the new photo upload facility, that should be easy! 

I cant tell you how much easier its made things for me !!!
I just need to go around and re upload ones thats vanished.
Thanks

[QE2forever]

Actually not a photo but a capture from my VHS video camera.

Cherbourg, France, October 1994. My first Atlantic crossing to New York.

Magic moment!

[Tom Kirrage]

Hello there.

My family's first photo of the QE2, was when she came into Gibraltar, October 2007. (My Father took it after visiting my brother's school, in Gibraltar, for parent/teacher consultations. I really wish I had been there with him.)

This is actually the only time any of my family saw the QE2, before she went into retirement.

Tom

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Beautiful photo, Tom! She must have made a big impression on your father, lying there in the deep blue water.

Did he talk about having seen the ship at the time, when he came back home?

[Alan Snelson]

I was fortunate enough to get my first real photo shoot of the outside of QE2 from a helicopter. This was on my second visit to New York early September 1978.

[Twynkle]

Hi Alan

These are great shots - what an experience it must have been!

There must be very many 'First photos'...
Somehow they seem incredibly enlightening - 
It would be fantastic to see more - please!

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

I was fortunate enough to get my first real photo shoot of the outside of QE2 from a helicopter. This was on my second visit to New York early September 1978.

Great photos! And I love the "Photographed on board" caption...

[June Ingram]

I was fortunate enough to get my first real photo shoot of the outside of QE2 from a helicopter. This was on my second visit to New York early September 1978.

All of the pictures are wonderful.  Alan's overhead photos are spectacular !!

[Peter Fitness]

My first photos of QE2 were taken in Sydney. I'm not sure of the date, but it was most likely in the early 80s - certainly while she was still steam powered.

Peter.

[June Ingram]

Great pictures, Peter !

[Peter Mugridge]

If we compare her appearance there with that thread ( where is it? ) with all the side on diagrams of her every external change, given that it is Sydney it must be a World cruise so we can probably identify the exact date with not too much trouble...

Excellent pictures, by the way. 

[Alan Snelson]

Would have to be 1984 World cruise by the look of the funnel shape and colour and the lack of the last of the penthouse additions.

The following link leads to the images of the changing profiles, though I know there is another one on the forum somewhere.

http://www.thecaptainslog.org.uk/ShipGalleryIndex/QE2Faces.html

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Here it is : The QE2 Dating Guide :

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/vmorley/QE2data.htm

Hope it never gets lost or removed -- what an invaluable source of information!

This was first mentioned in our thread on "The Changing Colours of QE2", here :

https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,356.0.html

[Peter Fitness]

!984 would be about right, Alan, especially when referring to the profiles in your link. I really should have written a date on the photos at the time , at least with digital cameras all photos are date electronically stamped.

When those photos were taken I never even dreamed I would be on board her for her final departure from Sydney, 24 years later.

Peter.