Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I went for a walk down by Dun Laoghaire today and was looking at yachts when I thought of this one. Summer '19, I was in Juan-les-Pins in the south of France and took this photo of the superyacht Eclipse owned by Putin's pal Roman Abramovich, an oligarch who has finally just been sanctioned by the tardy Boris Johnson's government. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/France/Cote+dAzur+2019/Cap+d_Antibes+Eclipse+in+Golfe+Juan.jpg.html The yacht is currently in the Caribbean, but was moored a good bit off Cap d'Antibes where I took the shot, so it looks almost small, but it certainly isn't. It's over 500 feet long, was built by Blohm & Voss who built the Bismarck, and is fitted with a mini submarine for quick escapes, military level radar, missiles, helicopters, and cost a pretty penny. Unfortunately, those pennies appear to have come from a dirty source. I only had my Fuji X100S with me, so a 23mm lens didn't exactly cut the mustard. Douglas