Like a Crow

It's difficult to come up with some slightly unusual perspective while

sailing, isn't it?

It's a cool shot! Excellent really.

 

I wonder, did you change the sea colour to dark or it was really like this colour?

 

7/7

Ehi Salvatore anche al mare ti arrampichi!!?? Ehehe.... bella foto complimenti!

Elegant composition !

Originalissima foto!!!!..ma..se cadevi????..sarebbe stata piu' originale e drammatica!!!he..he..Scherzo!!!!!

Unique angle and great use of wide angle. I love the light color against the dark sea. You did super scan job. Very sharp with great detail.

Well, rather you than me... don't really need to talk lines here, do we? O.K., maybe a little, three triangles, the first, obviously, is the sail and whatever the horizontal mast thing-e is called, the second is the shape of the cabin, and the third, the pose of the person lying down. Is he taking a picture of you? Little hard to tell at this size. Good shot, and slightly scarey.

Sempre in alto!!! Anche al mare! Complimenti!

were u really on the top of the pole! amazing point of view!!! beautiful one, congrats.

Totally amazing and RISKY! I could never try something like that when I'm afraid of both water and height! Excellent shot!

Outstanding photograph.

 

Very nicely done.

No wonder you climb mountains Salvatore. You have all the right gear. Nice angle, are you really up there or is it on remote.

I'm impressed by the positive feedback on this. It's well worth having lost the plastic cap I had on the 20mm during the trip up the mast.

A few answers to some questions expressed above:

• @Altay The colour of the sea was really this one, given the angle of the light, and the liberal use of polariser from up there.
• @Stephen The guy down there is taking a video of me being hoisted up the mast. Later in our trip we had to send someone up there to grease the railing on which the mainsail is hoisted, and I got these pictures posted here to give some furhter scale to the thing.
• @Alec No remote, check out the technical details ;) The interesting part is that ten minutes or so later the wind would have picked up much more and, having 100square meter of spinnaker and 70square meter of mainsail which you see here, we would have eventually broached, which means the boat starts heeling, goes a bit out of control, and turns into the wind with quite some strenght. Luckly I was already back down by then...A broach is scaring enough on the deck, better not to experience one at 20m a.s.l.

Actually, little quiz, why is is Like a Crow rather than Like a Seagull?

Crow rather than seagull, no idea... maybe... because a seagull won't land on the mast? That's the only thing I can think off... do I get the prize, a few 7/7's, I think... nope, I give up.

Great shot, I know it takes a lot to get to the crows nest.

I beleive it was called the crows nest up there, a perch to view the horizon from,...yes,no? Great shot, it looks exciting just viewing it!

Brian wins the special competition, then!

Indeed, "crow's nest" is the name of the barrel-shaped structure on the aft mast of old sailing ships where someone was sent to sight land and cry the "land, land!" catch-line of many a movie. Being up there I felt as in the crow nest, and it does take some non-vomiting guts when the ship rolls.

Seagulls were rather uninterested in the mast but liked to sail around the boat. Later in the trip an arctic tern on its way south decided to repeatedly attack the windex (an arrow showing you the apparent wind direction) which sits on top of the mast.

Grrr... I knew that. Its Dylan's fault, the fiddle from Hurricane was distracting me...

Great composition! I like the crew scattered about the deck (probably hoping you don't drop anything heavier than the lenscap!)

Hi Salvatore. You definitely deserve extra points for getting up there to take a shot with the sails up. Regards,

Brilliant !!!!!!!!!

Actually, the guy lying down taking a picture of me has meanwhile sent me the picture of me being hoisted on the mast for the photo stunt...

Yes, an unusual point of view. Hard to understand how you get there...! I would correct nothing of this one.

Great result Salvatore, I think one of my favs from your work, I love everything in here, specially the contrast of black water and whites on deck and mainsail, looks like there was backwind so a bit of ideal conditions to the effort climb, in top of mast you are swinged around with violence and you acheived an excellent result, uff! broaching makes your pulse go up quickly even on deck, up there would have been a mad experience 8^), regards