Sail Amsterdam 2010

Jeroen

Amsterdam is having the Sail 2010 event the coming days. Today all the tallships came through the North Sea Canal from the port of IJmuiden to dock in Amsterdam.

The event will last for a few days and I will update this thread the coming days when I have shot new photos.

1 We went to the Silo first, because we thought we'd have a good view overthere.



2 Just waiting in the sun, so I took some more shots of the Silo to kill some time.



3 Some happy couple.



4 More shots to kill boredom. At this moment I spoke to my dad on the phone, who was standing at the port of IJmuiden and who told us how slow they all went through the ship lock. We had come to the same conclusion :-)



5 There it was! The first ship, "The City of Amsterdam" with our Crown Prince on board. Somewhere. I have more exactly the same photos with different ships. Not too interesting as a photo but nice to watch IRL



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Tomorrow I'll go to the docks to take some close-up shots.

Panther

Howdy Jeroen,

What a wonderful adventure, love seeing the pics, great colors and perspectives, and love the narration :D:D

Can't wait to see the Close Up shots, that has to be such a neat
sight to see those coming in.

GSPeP

Hi Jeroen,

Saw about Sail Amsterdam 2010 on dutch television yesterday.

A few weeks ago most of those ships were in Antwerp for the 2010 Tall Ships Race. Those "cathedrals of the sea" are spectacular to look at.

Chrissiebeez_NL

hey Jeroen!

Nice shots! I was thinking about going there myself but was unsure if i could get any decent shots

Is it me or is the focus a bit off on some of them ? might want to watch that, would be a shame with such nice subjects

Jeroen

Today all the ships are docked near the city. So I hopped on my bike and went to get some photos.

I hadn't used my zoomlense (a Tamron 18-200) for a while. I mainly used a static 50mm, a 24mm and a lot of (non zoom) vintage camera's over the past 6 months. So I was really shocked with the softness, the distortion, the aberration and the vignetting. I knew my lense wasn't the best boy of the class but I really want something better in the future (when I find the cash somehow).

Anyway, here are some of today's photos.

7 It was crowded. I parked my bike at Central Station and decided to walk for the rest. The letters spell "I AMsterdam".



8 At the Passengers Terminal, where usually all the cruise ships dock.



9 Not one of the main attractions, but I thought it was pretty cool.



10 I guess it spells "Chaos". But that is a long shot.



11 This is one of my favorites of today.



12 I got on board of a tall ship! How cool is that?



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14 I have tons of these cliche shots. Why did I take them? I dunno.



15 This was one of an Arab couple. They were funny and looked like they were loaded.



16 Burgertime! I love shots like these were you only see what exactly all happened when you open your photo in Photoshop.



17 I had the idea to go to the end of the quay and then go back on the parallel road on the other side of the buildings but I decided to leave at this point. Too many people for my taste.



18 Bye bye.

GSPeP

Hi Jeroen,

Nr. 10 is the "Sedov", a russian training ship. It used to be all white.

Panther

Howdy Jeroen,

WOW, what a great finish to the Amsterdam Tall Ships.

Really love all the details and great compositions and
true shots of the crowds and perspectives.

The Sky and Colors are very accurate and add such a
great background to the Ships.