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Sailors furl the sails on the USCGC Eagle, the flagship of the US Coast Guard, a commissioned training vessel for Coast Guard cadets. It is America's tall ship.

I was thrilled to obtain a press pass for the Connecticut portion of OpSail 2012, a celebration of the bicentennial of the War of 1812 In fact, I got to take part in the Parade of Ships and shot this image from another sailing vessing when we arrived at Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut at the conclusion of the regatta. It was the last stop for tall ships and other boats from around the world with regattas in other port cities along the east coast.

The first OpSail took place during the 1964 World's Fair on the Hudson River and has become a tradition.

This one began in Niantic, Connecticut, where my family has had a cottage since the 1960s, and then traveled from Niantic Bay and up the Thames River to New London, home of the United States Coast Guard Academy, where the tall ship is docked.

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I have been hooked on photography since age six when my grandmother, returning from a trip to Egypt, passed on her well-traveled Kodak Brownie camera as well as her wanderlust. A travel, editorial and fine art photographer by profession, my images seek to shine a light on the reality around me and to evoke an emotional response. My work has been shown in galleries throughout the New York metropolitan area, including at the Museum of the City of New York and hang in the collections of private, institutional and corporate collectors. They have been published in Smithsonian and Coastal Living magazines, in The Guardian newspaper, in books published by National Geographic, Fodors, DK and Workman Publishing and in dozens of other...