Image:Soaybaskingsharkfisheries.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

[edit] Summary

Description

The Island of Soay Shark Fisheries Ltd The basking shark fishing station was established here in Soay Harbour by Gavin Maxwell, on a small island off Skye. It operated between 1945 and 1948, when it collapsed financially, having caught around 1,000 sharks. The huge carcasses were pulled out of the water here, the livers rendered for oil, the rest sold for fertilizer, aphrodisiacs or food. A glorious failure of an enterprise. Not to be confused with Soay in St Kilda, or Soay in the Outer Hebrides.
Source
This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by John Allan and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution iconCreative Commons Share Alike icon		 This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License (cc-by-sa-2.0). In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it under this or a similar cc-by-sa license.
Date

See image source page.
Author

See above.
Permission
(Reusing this image)

See above.

[edit] Licensing

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution iconCreative Commons Share Alike icon		 This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License (cc-by-sa-2.0). In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it under this or a similar cc-by-sa license.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current17:50, 22 November 2007640×425 (307 KB)MacRusgail (== Summary == {{Information |Description=The Island of Soay Shark Fisheries Ltd The basking shark fishing station was established here in Soay Harbour by Gavin Maxwell, on a small island off Skye. It operated between 1945 and 1948, when it collapsed finan)
The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Camera manufacturer NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model NIKON D50
Exposure time 1/250 sec (0.004)
F-number f/10
Date and time of data generation 17:09, 13 April 2007
Lens focal length 48 mm
Orientation Normal
Horizontal resolution 300 dpi
Vertical resolution 300 dpi
Software used Ver.1.00
File change date and time 17:09, 13 April 2007
Y and C positioning 2
Exposure Program Not defined
Exif version 2.21
Date and time of digitizing 17:09, 13 April 2007
Image compression mode 4
Exposure bias 0
Maximum land aperture 4.9
Metering mode Pattern
Light source Unknown
Flash 16
DateTime subseconds 60
DateTimeOriginal subseconds 60
DateTimeDigitized subseconds 60
Color space sRGB
Sensing method One-chip color area sensor
Custom image processing Normal process
Exposure mode Auto exposure
White balance Auto white balance
Digital zoom ratio 1
Focal length in 35 mm film 72
Scene capture type Landscape
Contrast Normal
Saturation Normal
Sharpness Hard
Subject distance range Unknown