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Black-and-white photo of the view looking up at the Spinnaker Tower, its sweeping curves and vertical concrete form rising against a pale sky, framed by sharp, angular steel beams.

From the same hill, you can see the British #mainland and here is #Portsmouth, where you can just make out the #SpinnakerTower, which we visiting earlier this year.

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Spinnaker night

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#blip of the #spinnakerTower in #Portsmouth at night.

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Spinnaker dawn

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#blip of the #SpinnakerTower in #Portsmouth at dawn from a ship in the channel.

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Photo theme: At the dawn of day

I wasn't sure we were ever awake to see a sunrise but remembered a few occasions and one of them was sailing back into Portsmouth aboard the now-scrapped cruise ship Astoria in 2018.

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The sun hasn't quite risen above the far horizon but the sky there is burning orange and lighting up the patchy clouds low down. It won't be long. The glow pales to a light blue then darkens further up the image as the sun prepares to chase the night away. We're on the water in a harbour, slowly and quietly coming in past a city. The skyline is in silhouette and is mostly low-lying with only a few office blocks offering jagged relief. Central, however, there is a tall tower behind a small pier against which a ferry can just be seen. The tower has a distinctive shape: it has a single tall, tapering column forming a spike; from a quarter of the way down two arching beams bow out to the right and reach down to cross over and stretch down to the ground behind to the left. Horizontal struts between the middle tower and the arching beams form a rib-like cage structure and the overall shape is that of a huge, skeletal spinnaker sail.

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We were treated to a wonderful display from the Red Arrows over Ryde last Sunday.

Unfortunately the weather was rubbish and meant that the photoshoot wasn't the best. We have been coerced into making this one public by a few customers in the shop who wanted it on their walls.

The Red Arrows were fab as always, the sun came out within minutes of the display ending. #RedArrows #SpinnakerTower

9 red display aeroplanes with red, white and blue smoke trailing in their wake. A tall structure that represents a sail stands in the distance.

Going home

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We've had a pleasant few hours down Spice Island commemorating the life of our friend's wife. Always lovely to meet up with various friends and family for this annual event although that heatwave of the last week vanished in a hurry down by the water. Quite a chilly breeze by the time we parted company with everyone.

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We're standing on the waterfront of a large harbour with a short, rocky foreshore leading to the calm, deep blue water. A spit of land emerges a few hundred metres back to the right on which there are buildings and boats docked alongside. Dominating the skyline is a white tower with curved, skeletal struts looping out from it like billowing sails from a ship's mast. The sky is a mix of blue patches and thin sheets of white cloud.

For #SchiffsSamstag here's HMS Prince of Wales, the fleet flagship of the Royal Navy, at her home port (and ours) of Portsmouth. This was taken as we cruised out aboard Scarlet Lady in 2021 and it was a great experience to see all the naval and historic vessels from this perspective.

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It's early evening on a clear day and we're cruising out of a city's port, passing by the naval dockyard where the main view is that of an aircraft carrier. The vessel has a jump ramp on its port side forward which is nearest to us, and the overall standard grey paint is glowing almost golden with the light of the setting sun hitting it side-on. Behind the aircraft carrier is the sprawling dockyard area and in the distance to the left there's a tower block while the distinctive shape of a tall tower in the shape of a skeletal spinnaker sail marks the exit to the harbour far back to the right.

For #MeerMittwoch here's a view of #Portsmouth from the sea, showing the historic waterfront with the Round Tower and Hot Walls to the right then the Spinnaker Tower and HMS Warrior to the left beyond Spice Island. Taken from the paddle steamer Waverley in 2022.

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A mostly overcast day although some blue peeks through the thinner sheets of cloud in the sky, but it feels fairly warm. We're on the sea and with a small bit of wake present to the bottom right on the calm, green-blue water's surface we can tell we're at the aft of boat heading away from the land we're looking back at. That land is low-lying with a shallow beach on the right backed up by medieval stone fortifications around ten metres high with a couple of slightly larger towers on them, the leftmost of which is very round. The shoreline then becomes a wall of boulders for flood and erosion protection from the sea and this continues left almost fully before disappearing back on itself behind the spit of land here. An eclectic range of townhouses line the shore there, some up to five storeys in height. In the distance to the left there is a tall tower in white with a sharp spire and glass-fronted viewing areas high up. It bulges out with a skeletal white framework that represents billowing sails. Leftmost of all in the distance we can see masts rising up from an old sailing ship that's docked.

The lowest observation level of the #SpinnakerTower features a #GlassFloor for those who dare to stand on it and see how high up they’re standing. I must confess to having fear of heights but I did manage to stand in the middle of the glass deck and look down.

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Looking vertically down from the transparent floor.

From this vantage point, the back of the #SpinnakerTower can be seen.

And here are a few more views of it from a a bit closer.

The tower is 170 m tall with three #ObservationDecks, the lowest of which is 100 m hight. I have to say that my wife was a little underwhelmed by the structure until, that is, we got up to the first #ObservationPlatform. A clue is that dark rectangle you can see on the underside.

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As #spring is here, it’s time to resume our own form of #EthicalTourism or #EcoToruism (day trips involving travel only by #bike and #PublicTransport – #Trains, in this case). As I’m a #StructuralEngineer, I like seeing interesting #structures and so I picked #Portsmouth. Quite recently, it had a #tower built called the #SpinnakerTower as it resembles a #spinnaker #sail. It is by no means unique, nor is it the tallest, but it’s comfortably within a day trip’s distance of us.

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Local law prohibits visitors to Gunwharf from not taking a photo of the Spinnaker Tower and posting it online. Technically, I obeyed this law when I posted it on an Instagram story yesterday but I see no reason not to share it here too.

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We're standing at the base of a tall tower looking up at it so that its main shaft starts at the bottom right of view and its peak is about two thirds up the image. It's a bright, sunny day with most of the sky a deep blue and just a few puffy clouds at the bottom as we look. The tower is gleaming white. The main part of it appears as a tapering spike but crossing over themselves are two great curves of metal connected to the main tower and each other by struts that almost look like a great rib cage. It's actually supposed to represent the billowing sails of a spinnaker ship.

For #FensterFreitag an iconic sight in the #Portsmouth skyline: the Spinnaker Tower. You can't fail to miss it if you're anywhere near our city. The tower is 170 metres high and it has viewing platforms within with the lowest you can see here at 100 metres up.

This was taken in 2007, a couple of years after it opened to the public, and significantly later than planned.

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A zoom lens view of part of a tall structure; a white tower with a tapered main column from which two curving white beams emerge at the bottom, flow out and up, then join at the top. The whole thing resembles a billowing sail. Our view is of a close crop near the top so we can see upper levels fit into this curving sail structure, both behind tinted glass, and both packed with people pressed against the window looking out and down. It's obviously very high up. To the right we can see the main core of the tower with an external elevator track running up its length. The sky is perfectly blue, filling the area to the left of the curve as we're looking, and the tower is gleaming white in the sunshine.

Spinnaker dawn

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Going home

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Alas #Rawtherapee struggles with the night shots from my #Canon so the #SpinnakerTower isn't so good.

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I quite enjoy engaging in the "Add Yours" story photos on #Instagram these days and one I've just posted there was for "Where are you from?" so I thought I'd share the photo here too.

This is the Spinnaker Tower in our home city of #Portsmouth; a lovely piece of distinctive #architecture with a maritime feel on the city waterfront near the naval base. This was taken in 2010 and to the left you can see masts of HMS Warrior and HMS Victory.

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It's a bright, sunny day with a sky of deep blue and not a cloud visible. We're standing by calm water looking across a small gap to where waterside shops and jetties are located, emerging from our right side and stretching across in front of us to the distance where, beyond some low warehouses and other buildings for maritime purposes there are some masts from historic sailing vessels. Dominating the view, however, is a tall tower in white metal. It's one hundred and seventy metres high. From our angle looking directly at it the form is that of a tall, narrow, tapering, spiked letter A with a bulging centre of ribbed metal struts. Near the top of the bulge the upper three of dozen sections are dark glass-fronted. The bulge of struts is a stylised form of a billowing sail.

This is Portsmouth Harbour, an inlet of the Solent, along with our city's famous Spinnaker Tower from the water for #MeerMittwoch today. Left of the tower you can see masts of HMS Warrior and behind that is the Royal Navy Dockyard. This photo was taken in 2014 from the ferry that runs regularly between Portsmouth and Gosport.

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