Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aren?t there some small portable weapons that can deal with such vessels? Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu YNWA > On 11 Mar 2022, at 00:35, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > I went for a walk down by Dun Laoghaire today and was looking at yachts > when I thought of this one. > Summer '19, I was in Juan-les-Pins in the south of France and took this > photo of the superyacht Eclipse owned by Putin's pal Roman Abramovich, an > oligarch who has finally just been sanctioned by the tardy Boris Johnson's > government. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/France/Cote+dAzur+2019/Cap+d_Antibes+Eclipse+in+Golfe+Juan.jpg.html > > The yacht is currently in the Caribbean, but was moored a good bit off Cap > d'Antibes where I took the shot, so it looks almost small, but it > certainly isn't. It's over 500 feet long, was built by Blohm & Voss who > built the Bismarck, and is fitted with a mini submarine for quick escapes, > military level radar, missiles, helicopters, and cost a pretty penny. > Unfortunately, those pennies appear to have come from a dirty source. > > I only had my Fuji X100S with me, so a 23mm lens didn't exactly cut the > mustard. > > Douglas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information