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Re: A Flag Flying Visit?
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2022 Aug 16, 22:05 +0200
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2022 Aug 16, 22:05 +0200
On 16/08/2022 19:30, Frank Reed wrote: > I'm still mildly curious about the exact location of the photographer > who took the photo. By the way, thanks for mentioned that the Washington > Post got the location right, and I notice they also did --as they are > supposed to with images licensed via Getty-- and credited the > photographer, Fiona Goodall. For the location, I didn't notice right > away, but it's taken looking through a storm fence, which is out of > focus but has left its pattern in the image. It's almost surprising that > the image is usable, but being so far out of focus, it doesn't seem to > do much harm. I assume there's telephoto compression in this shot, and > the pier with the newly-delivered cars is actually a considerable > distance in the foreground from the pier where the Chinese ship is docked. A mildly interesting geolocation challenge, yay! To the right of the racing sailboat you can see the small white roof and white fence of Stainly Point Viewpoint: https://goo.gl/maps/cSAa5X8ukFmeNtaE6 Behind the mooring ropes on the right the triangular roofs and vertical windows of the Naval Base are visible. https://goo.gl/maps/WUSUA8kTtZZCw6fM7 A pier with cars on it is in the foreground (it is longer on Google Maps. On Bing Maps you can see its half demolished state like in the picture): https://goo.gl/maps/1xNDQChzY4FXoLn28 Location of the photographer would be about here: https://goo.gl/maps/KThtT5o34uBBU3GZ7 And yes, there's a fence there! Luc
