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USCG Eagle - The US military's only active square rigged ship
USCG Eagle - The US military's only active square rigged ship
boyd2000


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Challenge: Boats (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon
Location: San Diego
Date: May 24, 2008
Aperture: 22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Water, Military
Date Uploaded: May 25, 2008

 Crop building on right
Minor color adjustments in Camera Raw
select and brightened the eagle
Some color adjustments
USM

You can see the Star of India and the Master and Commander ship on the left. I thought they had been done to death, so I'm doing this ship that was open for public tour this weekend. I took a number of on-board shots, but thought this was best. I also tried a number of San Diego Bay shots with ships and the city in the background.

(Post) Thanks everyone for helping put this on my profile front page! I kept waiting for someone to say "The USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is a commissioned ship". Yes, I've been on it, but it's not an actively sailing square rigged ship. I think it goes into Boston harbor once or twice a year. This ship sails around the world. It just came from Mazatlan going through high seas. It's a recruit training ship. One of the recruits was talking about being up in a crow's nest in high seas and being tilted out over the water. Scary stuff.

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Place: 53 out of 162
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Avg (commenters): 6.4167
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Views since voting: 1093
Views during voting: 341
Votes: 185
Comments: 12
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/01/2008 08:32:28 PM
Nice angle to show both the figurehead (a rare non-female fidure at that) and the archaic rigging, with a handly leading line front and center. I've known about this ship for a long time, but I don't think I've ever seen any kind of a close-up until now.
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 05/30/2008 02:16:27 PM
Nice use of leading lines.
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 05/29/2008 11:58:35 PM
Nice leading lines
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 05/27/2008 11:49:51 PM
Creative perspective :)
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 05/27/2008 08:59:09 PM
This is near my home town. Nice piece of history.
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 05/26/2008 11:05:56 PM
Very nice. Good POV that does the best yet with a moored vessel, which are really very unphotogenic.
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 05/26/2008 10:12:36 PM
great lighting and composition
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 05/26/2008 08:07:20 PM
The crop on this is great. Good composition and POV. Very nice image. 7
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 05/26/2008 05:32:32 PM
nice colors and very sharp
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 05/26/2008 09:26:52 AM
What a majestic ship! Only wish the front wasn't cut off.
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 05/26/2008 09:05:18 AM
Hey I've seen that boat! It was here in Newfoundland a couple of years ago. Great ship. I like the clarity of your shot, good colours. Here's a pic I took of it:
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 05/26/2008 12:21:54 AM
Great effect with the shore lines and the rigging...
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