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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Eighty-three: Impressions of the Galapagos – an extended photo-essay > Tall ships off Santa Fe Island, The Galapagos, Ecuador, 2012
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21-JUN-2012

Tall ships off Santa Fe Island, The Galapagos, Ecuador, 2012

While most cruise ships visiting these islands are products of our own time, there are at least two vintage sailing vessels, known as "tall ships," still carrying passengers from island to island in the Galapago. Here they anchor together off Santa Fe Island, under a dramatic overcast cloudscape. I made this image as I was returning to our ship (the tallest of the two) from a nature walk on the island. My intention was to make an image that speaks of the days when all of the ships visiting the Galapagos looked like these. A photograph made in the 19th century would look very similar to this one.

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Phil Douglis29-Jul-2012 21:44
Thanks for the comment, Jane. It is the cloud formation that makes this picture work -- the billowing shapes of the clouds remind us of unfurled sails at sea, or even the clouds of smoke that once poured from the guns of the warships of that time. (It just occurred to me that the striking cloud formation you note would have never shown up in this picture if it would have been made, as I speculated in my caption, during the 19th century. If you look at photographs made outdoors in that century, you will see that the skies are always devoid of any detail, because of the very slow film and long exposures needed in that era.)
janescottcumming28-Jul-2012 20:41
This does indeed look like an old photograph! A wonderful cloud formation above the tall ships really enhances this fine image. V
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