This year I’ve got an opportunity to watch over a hundred of vessels at once at the Tall Ship Races 2009 ( @Shutterstock ) event. ‘With me’ there was about 2.5 million of spectators watching (summed up during four days).
It was a very hot, long weekend (near 88 F / 31 C in shadow) and we was at full sun through out about five hours, thus my skin partially got hit, fortunately I had my white hat;).. but the t-shirt wasn’t white 8-O.
Everything was just BEAUTIFULL.. Can’t be everywhere at one time so I had to choose some location. It wasn’t easy to take particular shots through the Gdynia harbour layout, ongoing maintenance works (machines left etc.), find a place for take photos at wide angle, fortunately I’ve got two cameras with me.
A black camera body and lens was exposed to the direct sunlight and I had to hide it after each shooting.
Setting long focal distance caused appearing the air distortion at taken images and sharpness issues. During all 5 hours we had sun just in front of us so getting best quality photos was very limited :-/
The biggest issue is that I can’t fly;) or haven’t get onto some cruise ship. But the weather was completely unpredictable at the beginning and I had to choose to shoot anything for sure or take a risk and maybe return with nothing.
The weather altough changed for pretty clear! ;), though.
It was a GREAT EVENT and MANY great subjects to watch and take pictures. Too bad it won’t happen next year in Poland.
Great tall ships, yachts and motor and other boats at the high seas.. just unforgettable view.
View few movies (Youtube: 1, 2, 3) from Tall Ship Races in Gdynia Poland 2009.
- Read more about Tall Ship Races
- Find more about the tall ships.
- Official Polish TSR site (english version available).
- Sailing International.
Flying Dutchman ship
photomontage inspired by TSR 2009
©plrang
