Battle of Trafalgar

[cliff123]

A pic from yesterdays firework display for the Festival of Sea in Portsmouth.

[pic]http://www.studiolimonard.co.uk/fireworksph.jpg[/pic]

[DJFish]

Nice!
I was hoping someone would put a few pics up of this event, got any more?

[GetCarter]

Fantastic shot. Get any of the ships?

[Bee_Jay]

I'm processing about 400 at the mo, will have them up a bit later... (got home very late, just got up...)

[simpo two]

Looks good. Only difference is that 200 years ago they were firing them horizontally at the Frecnh and Spanish!

[FourWheelDrift]

Anyone notice the mistakes on the BBC's coverage? Other than the gibbering fool presenting the live footage calling every large ship he saw on screen the French Carrier Charles de Gaulle.

I saw one, when they were describing Napoleon they showed a clip of someone wearing a Napoleon style hat...only it was a clip from ITV's series Hornblower where a spanish Prison commander (wearing tha hat) is riding up to HH who's standing on a cliff top.

[cliff123]

[Bee_Jay]

Here's a taster, more to come...

[cliff123]

Beejay, you must have been at Southsea, the silhouette of the tall ships looks great.

[Bee_Jay]

I was actually on the banking in Old Portsmouth.

Great view, but got there about 8:30, which meant I was testing the limits of the 20D and 100-400L... (monopod helped a bit).

I was having a bit of a testing session, so all of the firework stuff was at 3200 ISO

[Bee_Jay]

OK, they are all here: www.pbase.com/baguleys/trafalgar_200

Here are a couple...

[Bee_Jay]

cliff123 said:

Beejay, you must have been at Southsea, the silhouette of the tall ships looks great.

You like like you were a lot further round...

[Dibble]

Bee_Jay said:

Here are a couple...

She's TS Royalist, she is. Sailed on her a couple of times in my youth - Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races in 1986 and 1988.

Had a great laugh. Apart from the reefing of the sails. On the main t'gallant yard (Top crossy bit of the back stick for any landlubbers...).

In a Force 7...

In the Skaggerak...

At night...

[HarryW]

Some very good pic there . I must say it was the most impressive fireworks display ever , apparently twice the size of the Athens olympics.

Harry

[cliff123]

Yeap, on the Gosport side. 150m up from the harbour entrance. Didnt see a single thing of the Tall ships or the battle as the flood lights which lit it up for you, also managed to shine light straight at us effectively blinding us and getting in the way of the view! Nevermind. Had a few friends on yachts in the Solent who were way out to the east while it was all happening, who had said that they really did see anything!