Mariquita Book - mk2.5

Photography Note
This photograph is an excellent example of keeping your eyes open and scanning a race for opportunities. I could never have predicted this almost perfect arrangement of yachts as they rounded a mark and then
hardened up onto a tight reach. I’d been following Mariquita, who was 30 seconds ahead, when I looked round and saw the red spinnaker in the centre of the shot. Our rib was drifting slowly to the right so I
didn’t even need to change our course as this gap opened up between the two lead yachts, and I depressed the shutter. The tantalising nature of photography can sometimes be difficult to articulate. Out of an
unpromising situation came this lovely Saint-Tropez image. B.W
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