I promise this photo is not altered in any way

[DFW]

A "tall ship" from Europe came in to Provincetown (MA) harbor last night, just as an incredible moon rose over the harbor. The scene practically screamed "preserve me!!," so we did our best with the cell phones we had.

[Srkdqltr]

1. Wow. Just gorgeous awesome.

[SWinter]

2. Beautiful shot!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Ya done good, my dear DFW! It's gorgeous.

[DFW]

7. We just looked up, and there it was.

We just looked up and saw it, and said, "OK, we are not leaving without getting that one!"

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Wow! It's a beautiful scene! The moon really makes it special.

[CTyankee]

5. Is that the French flag on the right?

[DFW]

6. No, that's Nederland (the Netherlands)

France's stripes are vertical, NL's stripes are horizontal. Russia's, too (same stripes, different order).

[CTyankee]

8. thanks. My flag education is flagging...

[DFW]

9. Hey, give yourself some credit

You got Finland right, didn't you? How many people whose names don't end in "nen" or "sto" would have gotten that one?

[CTyankee]

23. No, I never even ventured a guess. You must have me confused with someone else on this thread...

[DFW]

44. Shhhh!

I was throwing you a freebie!

[pandr32]

10. Wow!

I can even see it's face. Great shot!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

11. Gorgeous!

So dramatic and wonderfully caught!

[Figarosmom]

12. No filter? That's beautiful.

[DFW]

18. No artificial ingredients

I juts took out the cell phone, pointed, and shot. End of story.

[justaprogressive]

13. It's The Kalmar Nykel

The Tall Ship of Delaware is a full-scale replica of the original Swedish colonial ship, a floating classroom, and inspirational centerpiece for the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation’s broad array of sea- and land-based educational programs that engage students and visitors of all ages.

https://www.kalmarnyckel.org/

[DFW]

19. That's it.

I had forgotten the name, although I knew about the 1638 Swedes in Delaware, and that the ship was being used for educational purposes.

"Nyckel" is the Swedish word for "key."

[calimary]

42. A floating classroom! What a World-Class idea!

Now that’s a history lesson you can actually touch and walk around in!

[TommieMommy]

14. WOW 👍👍 fantastic photo

[Bayard]

15. Incredible!

Thanks for sharing with us.

[niyad]

16. Simply stunning. Thank you for sharing.

[judesedit]

17. Awesome pic! Thank you

[DFW]

20. I just pointed and got lucky.

Everyone was saying, "wow look at the color of the moon!" and I looked and thought, give the ship about ten more seconds to move, and I'd have one hell of a shot, and that's just what happened.

[Wild blueberry]

21. WOW

Thank you!

[liberalla]

22. Gorgeous!

[Upthevibe]

24. Stunning! N/T

[fierywoman]

25. Tall ships in person are just breathtaking, aren't they?

[DFW]

57. Very much so! I got one tour I wasn't supposed to have.

I was in San Francisco on the last night of some gathering, and our host, who lived in San Fransisco, remembered the tall ships in town. So after dinner, she took us in her car, and we rushed down to the port.

All ships but one were closed for the night, and the last one had JUST closed the last tour. It was the Russian ship. They said come back the next morning. I said I was flying to Boston early the next morning. I pleaded with the guy in Russian. He got the captain. The captain came over and said, “one of you speaks Russian?” I said I did. He said, well, in that case, OK. He called over some 19 year old sailor, and told him to show us around. The poor kid spoke ONLY Russian, which normally wouldn’t have been a problem, except that he was using dozens of nautical terms I had never heard of. I had him repeat almost everything, and had him explain what half his words meant. I had never read “Captains Courageous” in Russian, after all.

But all in all, it worked out, and we DID get our three person private tour (I translated for the other two), where most people were in groups of 20 or more.

[fierywoman]

60. In the end, "Alle Menschen werden Brdern" (?sp?), such a beautiful thing.

[fierywoman]

61. I *swear* I put --

an " u- umlaut" in Brüdern!

[DFW]

62. Much of the "exotic" punctuation won't show in the title line

And in any case, you need to ditch the final “n.” That’s only for the dative case, plural. I’ll give it to my brothers—“Ich werde es meinen Brüdern geben.”

LvB’s text read:

Alle Menschen werden Brüder.

Close, anyway!

[fierywoman]

63. Thanks for the correction. I only know the words from hearing them hurtling over

my head as a violist in an orchestra -- and I never played it with a conductor I liked, sniff sniff!

[irisblue]

26. My friend what a photo

[electric_blue68]

27. Fabulous! What a color of the moon, and contrast with the cooler ship colors.

As for the ship; *I wonder how old it is? I'm guessing some are quite old, and seriously maintained!

We had Operation Sail in NYC 1976. And, wow, there were so many Tall Ships! My extended family, and I went to watch them ftpm under the GW BridgeI.It was amazing! A great memory.

*I missed justaprogressive's post w photo.

[Hekate]

28. Incredible! ❤️ Is there a fire somewhere that made that moon so orange? Gorgeous.

Thank you for sharing.

[melm00se]

29. Is that ruddy moon

because of smoke coming from Canada?

[DFW]

45. Some here on Cape Cod say that is indeed so.

I’m not enough of a meteorologist to venture a guess.

[Blues Heron]

51. No need to be one - when there's fire smoke.ca that is! Def smoke from Canada, nice shot!

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/ It’s been wafting over the northeast on and off since early June.

[elleng]

30. WOW!!!

Been wondering when we'd hear from you, and this OUTdoes almost everything!!!!

[mountain grammy]

31. Beautiful!

Lot’s of smoke here in Colorado. Makes for beautiful sunsets and that moon!!! Just wow!

[stage left]

32. That is just magical!

What a moon!

[NNadir]

33. Nice picture. Vikings? South of Vinland?

[Permanut]

34. Wow, even the flags cooperated!

[mnhtnbb]

35. The best camera is always the one with you!

Wow. Fabulous sight!

[question everything]

36. Sturgeon Moon

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/sturgeon.html

The Full Moon in August is named after North America’s largest fish, the sturgeon. Other names for this Full Moon include Grain Moon, Corn Moon, Lynx Moon, and Lightning Moon.

[AllaN01Bear]

37. ohm myyy.

[wendyb-NC]

38. Wonderful photo, incredibly clear

The moon is stunning.

[calimary]

39. Absolutely Outstanding!!!

What a terrific catch, DFW! Epic!!!

[George McGovern]

40. In the nick of time! What's your cell phone? It, and you, take terrific images! Thanks!

[DFW]

55. It's an iPhone

12,16 somewhere in between? I’m useless in that department.

[NBachers]

41. AND you managed to get all the flags at full-fly. Most of my flag shots, the flags are furled and crumpled.

"When in flies a guy who's all dressed up just like a Union Jack"

I just couldn't get this flag in Blackheath, London, to fly straight =

[DFW]

48. We saw the ship just coming in to dock, so the flags were still flying in the wind.

Maybe they were limp twenty seconds later, but that was no longer a worry.

[Alliepoo]

43. Wowzers!

That’s a beautiful photo.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

46. Gorgeous.

Last night was the last night of August's full moon. Your photo is breathtaking.

[mitch96]

47. That's amazing... Great shot!!! nt

[DFW]

49. I wish there had been some way to eliminate the banner of the Boston-Provincetown ferry

But that is pretty much a permanent fixture, as it is at the end of the pier, and that is the only place a tall ship can safely dock in Provincetown.

[mitch96]

53. Photoshop!!.. I love the way the shot if framed..nt

[DFW]

54. I don't even know how to use Photoshop

I’m shockingly ignorant when it comes to photography. I point the camera, press the button, and hope for the best. That’s about the limit of my photographic expertise.

[mitch96]

56. I've played around with photo editing software and it can do amazing things but takes a lot of education

to get it right.. I just mess around with the editing software on the phone..I have some software that came with my Olympus camera and it will take some time for me to get into it. There is one tool that is neat to erase parts of a picture that is really cool.. ? a "cool tool" ?
It would have been great for Stalin. When one of his cronies fell out of favor (or fell out of a window) he would actually have the persons picture cut out of all the "official" pictures..Just erased from history..
Kinda takes "cut and paste" to a new level, eh?
m

[DFW]

58. Someone should go back and review Beria's notes.

Maybe they invented “фотошоп» and we never knew it?

[mitch96]

59. HA! I had to break out google translate for that one, da? ...nt

[SpankMe]

50. Lens compression / foreshortening

Whether you intended to use the technique or not, you pulled it off pretty well. A scene photographed in telephoto (i.e., zoomed in) reduces the apparent foreground-to-background distance between objects. Thus, the moon looks closer and larger in the image than it does in person. Nice composition and color temperature contrast between the distant moon (warmer tones as filtered through the Earth's atmosphere) and features within the harbor (cooler tones as illuminated by the artificial lighting of the harbor).

This could win some amateur photo contests. Great job.

[h2ebits]

52. Stunning!