Mylin IV visits Portsmouth (Collage)

The Superyacht 'Mylin IV' visits Portsmouth this weekend. Heres a selection of pictures I shot of it. Some details:MYLIN IV was built for the late Ted Arison, owner of Carnival Cruise Lines. The yacht is still owned by his family. She was named after his wife Lin and was his fourth and last yacht. It has 14 crew and can have 11 guests on board.

Two images from on the actual ship follow (taken from the interior suppliers website):

Just for these two..

2nd in the series.

Just for these two..

Out of retirement just for these two pictures.

I think that many people around the world would like to see these pictures.

News

Unfortunately due to lack of time I`ve been forced to stop updating the Portsmouth Daily and Ryde Daily photo blogs.

Having to update the blogs once a day as well as go and shoot more pictures became just too time consuming. Instead, I`m going to concentrate on my main focus in photography - long exposure.

In my night time and low light photo blog I`ll be posting occasional images, once a week if I can.

Please drop by that blog, enjoy the pictures and leave some comments!

Portsmouth Taxi's

Portsmouth taxi's in 'The Hard' waiting to pick up. This is right next to the train station, it usually has a big queue of taxi's waiting outside. You can see a few 'typical' taxi's like the one to the right which is a London cab style (as well as one far left) but the rest are mainly privately owned cars with a taxi logo on them!

Old Bluey

Continuing my mini-theme of blue, this is a brand new building thats just been completed right opposite the bus station (The Hard). I was curious about this building - it doesn't look like a normal apartment building, more like an office block, but it has mailboxes all in a row outside. And whats with the blue tinted windows??

The Blue Building

This is the 'Blue Building' thats part of the Gunwharf Quays development. I`m guessing that its blue as a link to the sea - you can see the developers have followed the general rules of 'merging in with the landscape' (not quite) and using subtle shades (definatly not). Its actually an apartment block but looks like an office block. Personally I dont know what they were thinking...

View location of 'The Blue Building' at Google Maps.
This was shot before it was even built!

HMS Warrior

Dating from 1860, HMS Warrior is one of the major tourist attractions at the Portsmouth Naval base. The official site says 'As you arrive at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, the stunning sleek, black lines of Britain's first iron-hulled, armoured battleship, take your breath away.

The pride of Queen Victoria, Warrior revolutionised warship construction. Powered by steam and sail, she was the largest and fastest ship of her day. Her most radical innovation was her citadel - an armoured box housing her guns.'

View Satellite image of HMS Warrior @ Google maps.

Spice Island Panorama

The promised night time panoramic of Old Portsmouth and the Spinnaker Tower

Pavement Cafe

This is the closest thing to a pavement cafe in Southsea - its just a shame that theres an extremely busy road right to the side of it. I guess this could be called the 'trendy' cafe of the area.

The Queens Hotel

Probably the most famous hotel in Southsea is 'The Queens Hotel' - I cant find any information about it online but I`m assuming it dates back to the 1800's, so named because Queen Victoria stayed here (or something similar).

If anybody knows anything of the history of The Queens Hotel, let me know and I`ll post it here.

View Satellite Image of The Queens Hotel @ Google Maps.

Candles (in the tent)

Just around the corner from the coloured sands we have the candle holder stall - actually, I quite like them. However, I`m not paying these prices as they're deliberately inflated to get holiday makers to spend more. (Its common practice here to raise prices if its a public event).

Time for some colour

There wasn't only kites at the festival, a tent had lots of 'exciting' things to do for the whole family - such as putting coloured sand into glass shapes.

In the Wind

More Kites from Southsea Kite Festival 2006

Old Portsmouth Sunset (Panoramic)

Sunset over Gosport with part of Old Portsmouth in view.

Panoramic Portsmouth at Dusk

The entire western side of Portsmouth at dusk.

Summer Monument

All the flowers were in bloom on the day of the Kite Festival.
This is the monument (as featured in an earlier post)