CaptainsVoyage by Captain Bank

12/09/2026

Sharing an image with you from a little while back, when the elegant "Seven Seas Mariner" called at Trondheim and spent the day alongside at Ila pier.

For someone who has spent a fair portion of life looking at ships from one bridge or another, I still never really grow tired of it.

Seven Seas Mariner entered service in 2001, built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France. She measures about 216 metres in length, 28 metres across the beam, and comes in at 48,075 GT, carrying around 700 guests with a crew of roughly 445.

And here is a little fun fact from the ship’s logbook: when she entered service, Seven Seas Mariner was regarded as the world’s first all-suite, all-balcony cruise ship. Every guest had a suite, and every suite had its own private balcony, something considerably less common in 2001 than it is today.

Not the biggest ship to sail into Trondheim, nor the newest, but certainly a very handsome visitor.

And as always, when a ship comes alongside in my home waters, the camera is never very far away.

11/09/2026

Dear , I have to admit, I’m feeling incredibly grateful today.

Right now, 18.832 people have chosen to watch my latest YouTube video since I uploaded it just seven days ago. For a small channel like mine, that is quite a number to see on the ship’s log, and certainly not something I take for granted.

On October 31st, my YouTube channel will be ten years old. And, to be quite brutally honest, it hasn’t exactly been what anyone would call a significant success.

But perhaps that is also why seeing this latest video suddenly find its audience means so much to me. After almost a decade of filming, editing, uploading and quietly sailing onwards, knowing that so many people have chosen to come aboard and watch this one genuinely makes me very happy.

Obviously, even after ten years at sea, you catch a little unexpected wind in the sails. And I am sincerely grateful for it.

To every single person who watched, commented, subscribed, shared, or simply came aboard for the journey: thank you. Genuinely. It means far more to me than the numbers alone can ever show.

And we are certainly not dropping anchor just yet.

Season 1/2026 continues this early evening with the premiere of Episode 2. Another course plotted, another little adventure ahead, and I very much hope some of you will sail along with me again.

Thank you for being part of the voyage.

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08/09/2026

A few weeks ago my , I caught "Scanbio Arnesen" inbound on the Trondheimsfjord, sailing quietly into the sunrise as another night watch was coming to an end for me.

While she was steering towards a new day, I was preparing to sign off, leave the bridge behind and head home for some well-earned R&R after spending the night crossing the fjord.

Two ships, two different courses, and for a brief moment our watches met in the golden morning light. Just another small scene from life at sea, but exactly the kind I never grow tired of.

I am Captain.

07/09/2026

Sometimes, when I’m standing watch on the bridge, I can’t help wondering about the ships that have sailed these exact waters before us.

And with my fascination also for wartime history, my thoughts occasionally wander onto a very different course.

There I was, in charge on duty, on the bridge of a hyper-modern plug-in hybrid ferry, gliding quietly through the Trondheim Fjord, running almost entirely on battery power.

And I started thinking about TIRPITZ.

More than eight decades ago, the enormous German battleship sailed through these same waters to her hiding place in Fættenfjorden. Heavily armoured, heavily armed, and surrounded by secrecy, she must have been an ominous sight against the otherwise peaceful Norwegian landscape.

What an extraordinary contrast.

Today, we cross the fjord almost silently on electricity. Back then, one of the most feared battleships in the world moved through these waters while war raged across Europe.

Standing on the bridge, looking across the same fjord, it is difficult not to let the imagination slip its moorings for a moment.

What if time suddenly folded upon itself?

What if, somewhere ahead of our bow, the unmistakable silhouette of TIRPITZ emerged from a time portal in the mist, steaming out of Fættenfjorden as she once did.....and crossed our course in 2026?

Two ships.
The same fjord.
More than eighty years apart.
One built for war.
The other built for an entirely different future.

Now THAT would be one hell of a meeting at sea.

Dear , am I alone to sometimes think about things like that?

Photo created in Photoshop, based on actual photos of Tirpitz.

04/09/2026

Perhaps some of the agree, but there is clearly something unmistakably cheerful about AIDAbella, with those famous red lips and enormous eye keeping watch from her bow.

At 252 metres, she certainly commands her share of the harbour. With Trondheim behind and beautiful light across the water, I sent the DJI Mavic 4 Pro aloft once again, perhaps the finest little flying photographic vessel ever to join my fleet.

02/09/2026

These are nights dreams are made of, or am I wrong, ?

31/08/2026

And that’s it. We’ve reached 500 images!

The first chapter of my DJI MAVIC 4 PRO photo album has reached its final port of call, but the photographic voyage is certainly not over. The continuation is already waiting in Album 2, with another 500 aerial moments ready to be captured as the journey continues.

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Before we close this particular logbook, I would genuinely love to know: which image among these 500 has been your favourite? Perhaps a ship, a landscape, an unexpected moment, or simply a photograph that made you stop scrolling for a few seconds.

Whatever your choice, thank you very much for following along.

I sincerely hope you will join me in Album 2 and continue seeing the world from above through the cameras of this quite incredible little flying machine.

500 photographs down. Rotors turning. The next 500 await.

31/08/2026

After reaching 499 images in Part 1 of my DJI MAVIC 4 PRO photo album, it is time to launch the next 500 and continue the flight.

I still believe this is just about the finest photographic drone anyone has ever made.

The quality delivered by those onboard sensors continues to astonish me, whether I am filming for my YouTube channel or simply taking photographs to share here.

Photography has always been about capturing moments that will never happen in quite the same way again, and having a flying camera of this calibre opens an entirely different window on the world.

So, engines running, rotors turning and Part 2 is officially airborne. I sincerely hope you will continue to enjoy the next 500 images as much as I enjoy heading out there and creating them.

The very first image in this brand-new album will forever be connected to one of those defining moments in Norwegian history: the passing of His Majesty King Harald V.

It somehow feels appropriate that this new photographic voyage should begin not simply with another beautiful view from above, but with a moment of remembrance.

A farewell to a King who served Norway with warmth, dignity, humour and an extraordinary closeness to his people.
There will be hundreds of photographs following this one, of ships, landscapes, travels and everyday life. But image number one will always stand apart.

A moment in history. A moment of reflection. And from high above, my own quiet salute and final farewell to our King.

31/08/2026

If any of my came here looking for pictures of ships, you may just have arrived at the right place. This is, after all, the photographic logbook of a Captain with a heartfelt passion for photography, travel, ships and planes, and for capturing those fleeting moments that make an ordinary day feel rather extraordinary.

These are the things that genuinely make my days fantastically rewarding. The ships passing by, an aircraft overhead, a journey somewhere new, a camera in my hand and perhaps a drone somewhere above it all.

I may not be everyone’s cup of tea, and that is perfectly fine. I have never really tried to be.

This is simply my life, my passions and my world, exactly as I see it through my own lens.