In a couple of weeks time the Volvo Ocean Race comes to Galway and it’s shaping up to be quite an action packed couple of weeks for the city. The highlight will be the Volvo Ocean Race In Port Racing on the weekend of the June Bank Holiday, preceded by an air display from the Red Arrows over Galway Bay. It should be a photographic feast.
I’ll be there with my camera, and am looking forward to an intensive couple of days of photographing the sailing, the aerial acrobatics, and indeed the street theatre that will be on show alongside the main event.
From my limited experience of photographing yachts, that element of the festival will be challenging to capture. They move a lot faster than they may appear, and I’m sure this will be especially true of the ocean going yachts designed especially for round-the-world racing. The photograph above was taken in San Francisco Bay, from the ferry to Alcatraz. I suppose the fact that I was on a moving boat, trying to photograph a moving boat travelling in the other direction, made things a little tougher, both in terms of getting a nice sharp image, and in particular in terms of composition – and you can see here that I only barely kept the yacht in frame.
I have some frames for a few seconds earlier, but none of them are sharp, so i got lucky to get this one just before the boat went out of shot.
The image itself was taken near dusk as we were on our way to Alcatraz for the night time tour. Alcatraz itself provided some nice photographic opportunities and tomorrow I’ll post about one of those.
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