Thousands of people gathered along
the sea walls at Gosport and Old Portsmouth to watch Britain's
supercarrier 'Queen Elizabeth' leaving her home port for the
first time, to begin her second set of sea trials. The carrier
was due to spend a month at sea around the south-west of the
United Kingdom testing out its radar, communications and other
technical equipment, and to test how how air across the flight
deck would affect take off and landing.
Four tugboats were used to help
guide Queen Elizabeth through the narrow entrance to
Portsmouth Harbour, and she is seen here shortly after while
passing the War Memorial at Southsea Common. This photograph
was taken from the sea wall nr HMS Dolphin in Gosport using a
200mm focal length, and was later converted to this colourful
digital artwork before part of the sky was cropped out of the
resulting image you now see. |
