We just looked up and saw it, and said, "OK, we are not leaving without getting that one!"

France's stripes are vertical, NL's stripes are horizontal. Russia's, too (same stripes, different order).

You got Finland right, didn't you? How many people whose names don't end in "nen" or "sto" would have gotten that one?

I was throwing you a freebie!

I can even see it's face. Great shot!

So dramatic and wonderfully caught!

I juts took out the cell phone, pointed, and shot. End of story.

I had forgotten the name, although I knew about the 1638 Swedes in Delaware, and that the ship was being used for educational purposes.

"Nyckel" is the Swedish word for "key."

Now that’s a history lesson you can actually touch and walk around in!

Thanks for sharing with us.

Everyone was saying, "wow look at the color of the moon!" and I looked and thought, give the ship about ten more seconds to move, and I'd have one hell of a shot, and that's just what happened.

Thank you!

I was in San Francisco on the last night of some gathering, and our host, who lived in San Fransisco, remembered the tall ships in town. So after dinner, she took us in her car, and we rushed down to the port.

All ships but one were closed for the night, and the last one had JUST closed the last tour. It was the Russian ship. They said come back the next morning. I said I was flying to Boston early the next morning. I pleaded with the guy in Russian. He got the captain. The captain came over and said, “one of you speaks Russian?” I said I did. He said, well, in that case, OK. He called over some 19 year old sailor, and told him to show us around. The poor kid spoke ONLY Russian, which normally wouldn’t have been a problem, except that he was using dozens of nautical terms I had never heard of. I had him repeat almost everything, and had him explain what half his words meant. I had never read “Captains Courageous” in Russian, after all.

But all in all, it worked out, and we DID get our three person private tour (I translated for the other two), where most people were in groups of 20 or more.

an " u- umlaut" in Brüdern!

And in any case, you need to ditch the final “n.” That’s only for the dative case, plural. I’ll give it to my brothers—“Ich werde es meinen Brüdern geben.”

LvB’s text read:

Alle Menschen werden Brüder.

Close, anyway!

my head as a violist in an orchestra -- and I never played it with a conductor I liked, sniff sniff!

As for the ship; *I wonder how old it is? I'm guessing some are quite old, and seriously maintained!

We had Operation Sail in NYC 1976. And, wow, there were so many Tall Ships! My extended family, and I went to watch them ftpm under the GW BridgeI.It was amazing! A great memory.

*I missed justaprogressive's post w photo.

Thank you for sharing.

because of smoke coming from Canada?

I’m not enough of a meteorologist to venture a guess.

Been wondering when we'd hear from you, and this OUTdoes almost everything!!!!

Lot’s of smoke here in Colorado. Makes for beautiful sunsets and that moon!!! Just wow!

What a moon!

Wow. Fabulous sight!

The moon is stunning.

What a terrific catch, DFW! Epic!!!

12,16 somewhere in between? I’m useless in that department.

"When in flies a guy who's all dressed up just like a Union Jack"

I just couldn't get this flag in Blackheath, London, to fly straight =

Maybe they were limp twenty seconds later, but that was no longer a worry.

That’s a beautiful photo.

Last night was the last night of August's full moon. Your photo is breathtaking.

But that is pretty much a permanent fixture, as it is at the end of the pier, and that is the only place a tall ship can safely dock in Provincetown.

I’m shockingly ignorant when it comes to photography. I point the camera, press the button, and hope for the best. That’s about the limit of my photographic expertise.

to get it right.. I just mess around with the editing software on the phone..I have some software that came with my Olympus camera and it will take some time for me to get into it. There is one tool that is neat to erase parts of a picture that is really cool.. ? a "cool tool" ?
It would have been great for Stalin. When one of his cronies fell out of favor (or fell out of a window) he would actually have the persons picture cut out of all the "official" pictures..Just erased from history..
Kinda takes "cut and paste" to a new level, eh?
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Maybe they invented “фотошоп» and we never knew it?

Whether you intended to use the technique or not, you pulled it off pretty well. A scene photographed in telephoto (i.e., zoomed in) reduces the apparent foreground-to-background distance between objects. Thus, the moon looks closer and larger in the image than it does in person. Nice composition and color temperature contrast between the distant moon (warmer tones as filtered through the Earth's atmosphere) and features within the harbor (cooler tones as illuminated by the artificial lighting of the harbor).

This could win some amateur photo contests. Great job.