THE KALMAR NYCKEL
A DELAWARE TALL SHIP
This image was made on the Chester River in Maryland and consists of the tall ship Kalmar Nyckel.
It was late in the afternoon when the lighting is golden and the opportunity was right, as a number of tall ships made their way up the river. Unfortunately, you can see how the low sun reflected off the side of the ship. That's the lesson of the day. If I had printed the image taken from the bow or front of the boat, the reflection would not have been a problem. An example of how to mess up a good thing.
This is about 20 miles up from the Chesapeake Bay on Maryland's eastern shore where the "Livin is truly easy." The photo was taken from my own boat as the vessel past by with a hand held Nikon and Ektachrome slide film. For the digital folks amongst us..............can you say stone tablet, hammer, and chisel.
This boat is normally in Wilmington, Delaware and can be seen most times docked there. The Kalmar Nyckel, or Key of Kalmar, was a Dutch built armed merchant ship noted for carrying Swedish settlers in 1638 to establish the colony of New Sweden (Wilmington). A re-creation of the ship was launched in Wilmington, DE in 1997 and this is her.
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