Looking East
Looking straight overhead
Looking WestToday was great for sky watching. It started with cloud cover, but by midday we were enjoying clear blue skies. About 7 pm I took these three shots through the rigging of the tall ship, WN Ragland. All three photos were taken within a few minutes of each other, but looking different ways. By 8 pm the sky was filled with clouds once again.
For extra glimpses of today's sky in PT, seen from different perspectives, click here.
24 comments:
Thanks for each of these perspectives. Both sky and ship are impressive.
This was a common sight. Looking through the rigging to see the sky. I wonder how many people alive today still remember the tall ships and the rigging. Nice photography.
wow...you have very nice blue sky.
Please visit mine also :D Thanks
I like ur first sky... Great shots for all of them
Mine in here Thanks
Nice set of blue skies Raf, love the way you shot them too.
Great series! :)
Have a wonderful weekend!
These are really pretty. Nice shots.
Beautiful and creative collection for skywatch. I have yet to try the through the rigging shots, and I must. Insprired me today aswell as very pleasing on the eye.
pretty catch for SWF! mine's up too hope you can drop by.
Thank you for joining in with Sky Watch this week and helping to make it special.
Tom:O)
A wonderful series of shots! All beautiful.
nice shots!
Great shots and very nice perspectives!
nice shots
Very nice, Raf! The clouds in the last one looked like a sail being taken down.
"Louis" thanks you for your kind comments about his s H a K y S h O t.
I love schooners. Thanks for the great post.
I know I should be looking at your beautiful sky, but I really love these old wooden tall ships!
Just some rope and wood and clouds. So why is it so EXCITING?!
Mice photos.
I like the different views through the rigging,
Troy
Ah. I think we think very much alike - this is my kind of photography. The first one was an exceptional beauty.
There is such poetry in masts and sails and rigging. They're analogous to the apertures and keys of an oboe or clarinet but on a ship all these things capture and shape the wind to produce movement rather than melody.
In any case, I always enjoy your sailing ship photographs since they plunge me into a world I've only enjoyed vicariously through the works of Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester and their ilk.
Flag Day.
I like th etall ships too. I just wonder if all those ropes are necessary?
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