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| The Tall Ship Europa, Charleston, SC © Doug Hickok Every few years, several tall ships from around the world sail into Charleston Harbor for the Maritime Festival. This beauty is the barque Europa, which hails from the Netherlands, and will be 100 years old this summer. Europa is also the woman in Greek mythology after whom Europe was named. Europa is the name of a princess from Tyre, who later became a girlfriend of Zeus. Europa is one of the moons of Jupiter (aka Zeus). Europa is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt. Europa is the web portal for the EU. And perhaps most importantly, Europa is a classic rock song by Santana, and one of the sweetest instrumentals ever! |
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The Many Faces of Europa
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I love the tall ships and this is a beauty--lovely shot Doug and such a cool, interesting narrative.
ReplyDeleteI am a lover of boats, more particularly old sailing ships as this one. Beautiful composition in diagonal.
ReplyDeleteNice photo, I like the bridge at the horizon!
ReplyDeletefascinating details, great work
ReplyDeleteI love your explanation about Europa! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd this picture is beautiful, I would like to visit a ship, I have never visited one inside.Maybe some day! :)
Léia
I love sailboats! Europa is a very fine ship and your photo is excellent!
ReplyDeleteAmen, preach it, Doug! All of it. When it comes to ships (and a lot of other things!), I'm proud to be living in The Netherlands these days. Beautiful image of Europa, and you're so right about the Santana YouTube!
ReplyDeleteCool. I´ve visited the Sedov in antwerp. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteVery cool, like it :-)
ReplyDeleteexcellent framing
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ReplyDeleteI like it, is curios because I have the stern of this sali boat in my blog.
Nice colours, nice light for a nice boat.
Greetings from Spain.
elegant yacht!
ReplyDeletethank you for this beautiful and grand tour of "europa".
ReplyDeleteEach wire, rope, strung net, chain so perfectly clear in the photo with the cables of the bridge barely visible on the horizon. You've captured the beauty of geometry.
ReplyDeleteWe too have a maritime festival up here, Doug, in Quebec City. I think this amazing ship has been here too.
ReplyDeletefabtastic ship - excellent image, framing and colors
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it's also an amazing song from Carlos Santana :).. great photo, I miss Chucktown so much...
ReplyDeleteWell, done, I have always wanted to photo-shoot a tall ship. So much to see with the graceful lines of ropes.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is here in Britain, if you mention Europe, that's actually the European Continent to them.
ReplyDeleteThey don't see themselves as European. ;)
Nice one Doug!
ReplyDeleteto this wonderful picture and your informative words i say, "long live EUROPA, long live santana, long live photographers who take photos like this!" ;-))
ReplyDeleteI love sail boats and would be glad if you will be able to post some other pictures of this beautiful ship. I am old enough to remember well Carlos Santana's Europe and still like it!
ReplyDeletereally nice composition of this sailing boat.
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