Photographs of the Tall Ship "Gazela"
on her visit to Portsmouth, NH, July 2005.
Photographs were taken on three days with very different sky
conditions: arrival very late one afternoon; on board one day with brilliant
blue sky; and on board one day with milky overcast.
The "Gazela" is rigged as a barkentine with
a square-rigged fore mast, a fore-and-aft rigged
main mast, and a fore-and-aft rigged mizzen mast.
Before you look at the images, put yourself in the mood by
reciting aloud at least the first stanza from John Masefield's "Sea-Fever"
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
Photography by Jim Cerny using a Konica-Minolta Dimage A1 camera.