Hi Stephen aah, Basler Fasnacht, you know I am from the Kanton of Zurich and Basel is our natural enemy, only kidding :-) Yes, I often regret not having started earlier with photography.
Thanks for commenting my "MS Silvretta" shoot, I will post some more if I can repair the scans enough... The long, long river is the Rhine and the Rhine Ships go from Bale to Rotterdam Holland. Imagine the "Silvretta" passing the Rhine Falls is fun... Every Swiss ship is registered in Basel at the "Schiffahrsamt" in 1977 Switzerland still had 36 freight ships, now maybe 15 and nearly no Swiss crew hired anymore. The crew often comes from the Philippines and the Officers from former Yugoslavia and maybe there is even a Swiss or German captain, cost matters, there is not much "Swissness" anymore like in the Chocolate business (Toblerone = American Philip Morris owned) :-( happy pentaxing Markus > > > I agree completely with Christian - I love this shot! > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2566318 > > As an aside, it makes my mind do a weird little twist > to see an ocean-going ship the size of the MS Silvretta > calling Basel its home port. There's that long, *long* > river you have to sail down first... > > (Had some fun times at Fasnacht in the early 1970s, > but that's another tale -- one for which I wish > I had had a camera.) > > Thanks for some cool photos, > > Stephen Moore > > >
