Collection of Seascapes from Seven Seas.

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Ramblings at a Midnight Watch.

Welcome to my Marine Photography web site. You will find here samples of various nautical images that I have tried to preserve using my cameras. Seascapes of all kinds - sailing ships at open ocean, sailors during sailtraining climbing masts and yards of tall ships as well as portraits of seamen and ships in harbors. Busy commercial port scenes including handling hundreds of colorful containers and gigantic tankers and crude carriers moored in cargo terminals. Fishing vessels plowing the seas.... People who go down the seas because they have to and those who love to ... Sailors, fishermen, yachtsmen. They sail on small boats, and gigantic ships. Ships using wind as the propulsion and powered by engines.

I was not sure how to title my growing collection of images from the sea taken both during my active sailing career and afterwards - when I decided to combine my passion for the sea and sailing with the photography.

I had to choose from many synonyms available in English to describe my photographic portfolio... Marine Photographs? Nautical Photos? Maritime Images? Pictures taken by a Marine Photographer or maybe a Naval Photographer? As a non-native English speaker I decided to trust a Dictionary - I believe that adjective marine is the best, however it might be misleading - my photographic portfolio does not include underwater photography. Maybe the right term would be a Gallery of Seascapes, including my specialty photos - Tall Ship Images... It is true that sailing ships of all kinds are my favorite subjects - Windjammers, Schooners, Squareriggers of all kinds. Not that many real Clippers are sailing the oceans nowadays but many argue that we are living throuh a new Golden Era of Sail. Today there are more large full rigged ships, barques, barquentines, brigantines, brigs and schooners sailing the Seven Seas than 50 years ago... Every year new tall ships are being built. Replicas and reconstructions of old historic ships - "Bounty", "Endavour", "Pride of Baltimore", "Amistad" to name a few... New modern sailing cruise ships - "Sea Cloud", "Star Clipper", "Royal Clipper"... Sailtraining ships - "Tenacious", "Stavros Niarchos", "Prince William", "Pogoria"... Educational sailing campuses "Concordia", "Robert C. Seamans"... Naval Training Vessels - "Gloria", "Cuathemoc", "Cisne Branco", "ORP Iskra"... There are several hundred of large sailing ships in the active service registered all over the world .

Waterfronts of many ports on are proud to expose preserved tall ships from the past. In America : "Peking" and "Wavertree" are moored at South Street Seaport in New York City, "Star of India" in San Diego Maritime Museum, "Joseph Conrad" and "Charles Morgan" in Mystic Seaport. In Europe: "Cutty Sark" in Greenwich, "Victory" in Portsmouth, "Rickmer Rickmers" in Hamburg and "Dar Pomorza" in Gdynia.

Wojtek (Voytec) Wacowski

DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS:  nautical, marine, maritime, naval.

All these adjectives mean of or relating to the sea, ships, shipping, sailors, or navigation: nautical charts; marine insurance; maritime law; a naval officer.

nau·ti·cal

adj

Of, relating to, or characteristic of ships, shipping, sailors, or navigation on a body of water.

[From Latin nauticus, from Greek nautikos, from nautes, sailor, from naus, ship.]

ma·rine

adj.

1. Of or relating to the sea: marine exploration.
2. Native to, inhabiting, or formed by the sea: marine animals.
3. Of or relating to shipping or maritime affairs.
4. Of or relating to sea navigation; nautical: a marine chart.

n.

1. The mercantile or naval ships or shipping fleet of a country.
2. The governmental department in charge of naval affairs in some nations.
3. A painting or photograph of the sea.

[Middle English marin, marine, from Old French, from Latin marinus, from mare, sea.]

mar·i·time

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or adjacent to the sea.
2. Of or relating to marine shipping or navigation. See synonyms at nautical.
3. Of or resembling a mariner.

[Latin maritimus, from mare, mari-, sea.]

na·val

adj.

1. Of or relating to ships or shipping
2. Of or relating to a navy.
3. Having a navy: a great naval power.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin navalis, from navis, ship.]

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Arguably the most popular piece of English marine poetry - almost everybody knows the few first verses... My research on the topic shows that not that many know the following text as well as history of the creation by the poet.

"Sea Fever"
By John Masefield

I must down to the seas again,
to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship
and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song
and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face
and a grey dawn breaking.

I must go down to the seas again,
for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call
that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day
with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume,
and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again
to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way
where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn
from a laughing fellow rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream
when the long trick's over.

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