Tall Ships Festival 2014.....

[WereBo]

I went to the 'Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta' last year, 'twas a great day indeed seeing so many beautiful ships, apart from the aches from too much walking - I really suffered the next day....

 

The old Royal Naval College makes a wonderful backdrop....

 

[ChrisLumix]

Nice. Perhaps the first and last could be colour warmed a little? They're a bit on the cool side.

[Terry]

Great set 

[Denis]

...especially No3, a bit of a crop and a little pp and bobs yer uncle!

[NannyFerret]

A smashing set

I would love to be able to shoot boats like this.

[WereBo]

Thanks folks, having the Thames nearby is one of the few joys of living where I am.....

Warmth added to 1st & last piiccies, I did consider cropping #3, but I like the row of gulls sat on the railings, admiring the view....

Although all the ships were beautiful to see, this one was my personal 'Star Of Show' - The 'Dar Młodzieży'  (Polish for 'The Gift of Youth', a perfect name for a youth-training ship)....

 

The masts behind the trees in the background is the 'Cutty Sark'....

 

Gulls on the Thames....

 

[ChrisLumix]

The added warmth has made a big difference (to my eyes).

[WereBo]

Thanks Chris, I'd tweaked the levels on a few pics that needed it and noticed some had a decidedly blueish caste to 'em, this one must've been overlooked.

 

Not exactly a job I'd fancy having to do, but at least the water's calm.....

 

There was also a lot of fun to be had on land too, I don't remember seeing anything like this in any of the films though....

 

[Korky]

A very nice set of images - I love the ones with the tall buildings in the background.

Number 2 in your second set is my favourite, though I think a  bit of PP would work wonders.

Quite like the Depp lookalike, too. 

Korky

[ChrisLumix]

Very bad camera shake in the first. But I agree about the Depp lookalike - uncanny!

[Black Pearl]

Saw them years back when they were in Newcastle - think they're coming to Sunderland soon so will be back with plenty of memory card space.

[WereBo]

Thank'ee for the kind words peoples - @ Korky - The tall buildings are part of 'Canary Wharf' on the Isle of Dogs and now London's 'Financial Heart'...... (The Isle of Dogs got it's name 'cos King Henry VIII kept his hunting-dogs kenneled there )

Unfortunately (for me anyway), Greenwich was packed with sightseers, either aimlessy meandering around or rushing to get the good spots by the riverfront, as they opened up.  The blurry one is the best of a bad bunch from folks jostling me and each other, to 'get that shot'.

This is the main 'River-Gate' from the Thames to the Naval College (or it was, it's now part of the 'Greenwich University' complex).  The small white building some distance behind, is 'Queen Anne's House', part of the Greenwich Maritime Museum and, right in the far distance at the top of the hill, is 'Flamsteed House', part of the Royal Observatory (look very closely and you can just see one of the domes hiding behind the big tree).

 

The Thames steps.....  I suspect some little kid had been gleaning on the river-bank, before the tide came in.....

 

This is looking up-river, the huge sheds behind is 'Convoys Wharf' where the news-paper used to come in, then transported up to Fleet Street.  Years ago Henry VIII (again...) built the Royal Naval Dockyards there....  I live just t'other side of the trees at the far end of the sheds - Just in front of the 2 white tower-blocks is 'The Foreshore, with some of the original 'Captains Houses' there).  If the weather had been clearer you could also have seen the London skyline too, with The Shard, The Gherkin, The Cheesegrater  and The Walkie-Talkie etc.