The Luxurious $94 million super yacht - 'La Masquerade'

[RB]

While I was down at Sydney harbour last week to see the cruise liners that are visiting, I wondered about this lovely beauty that was mored near the Overseas Passenger Terminal.

It's the Luxurious Super Yacht - 'La Masquerade'.

Built in 2003, this 55m craft is owned by Sir Robert Ogden and is valued at $94 million dollars.
Truly a work of art, it's a floating palace featuring fully air conditioned cabins, a massive marble bathroom with jacuzzi, gilded gold leaf woodwork throughout and a full time personal chef with an assistant.

In the mid-deck section is a stowed Comittie Portofino (7.5m mahogany speedboat) which can be lowered into the water from on-board.
The owner is said to spend around 3 weeks a month on board this wonderful vessel.

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http://www.iimagespace.com/page/tr/yacht.htm

The image above is taken with a Canon 20D , EF 24-105 mm L set at 24mm, f/8 , ISO 200 , 2 panel panoramic HDR.
Each panel is a HDR stack of 16 frames ranging in exposure up to 60 seconds using PS CS3 Merge-to-HDR and then the two resulting HDRs stitched together in Adobe PS CS3 Photo-merge.

As you can appriciate there was slight movement of the yacht during the exposure times hence the slight blurring in places of the final image.

Hope you enjoy.

:)

[BerrieK]

You can almost hear the sounds and smel the smells of the harbour in this one! Beautiful photo RB.

[Quark]

What a stunning yacht,

Lovely image Andrew,
A fitting result for the effort you put in to producing it.

Regards
Trevor

[h0ughy]

sell them the image Andrew!!! what a pearler

[GTB_an_Owl]

and why would you not spend three weeks of the month on board !

in fact - why would you get off at all

geoff

[gary]

Hi Andrew,

Nice shot!!! :thumbsup:

The boat itself looks very "Bond - James Bond". :lol:

If you've ever had the chance to get to Monaco, you see a lot of
this type of bling floating on the harbour there.

Once again, a really nice piece of photography.

Best Regards

Gary

[renormalised]

Got one just like it, only bigger, sitting in my backyard:P:P:D:D

Oh...to have enough to be able to afford something like that!!!:)

[renormalised]

Actually looks like a Feadship....might go check it out online.

Yep....it is....built by Amels Holland BV. Does 15kt and cruises at 12kt. 5000nm range. 10 guests and 13 crew. Steel hull, aluminium superstructure.

[koputai]

Fantastic photo, and awesome boat. My Beneteau could fit on it as a dinghy!

Cheers,
Jason.

[RB]

Thanks everyone, it was fun to take photos of such a lovely vessel.

Here is a single shot of the mahogany speedboat which is stowed inside the main ship.
Had to crop and enhance it for clarity.

:)

[acropolite]

Nicely captured Andrew, would have been nice to have a guided tour.

[RB]

Thanks Phil, yes a guided tour would have been nice but I count my blessing I didn't get arrested for spying LOL.

So many people stopped to ask me if I knew who owned the yacht, thinking I was commissioned to photograph it.
These days the general public automatically assumes you're a pro photographer if they see you with a tripod and a DSLR with a large lens.

[Kevnool]

Fantastic image Andrew .
If i was there i would of thrown my camera into the drink in sheer protest of the quality.
Anyway the backdrop of the Harbour Bridge gives it the yay for the day.
Cheers Kev.

[Quark]

Hi Andrew,
I have already posted a comment on this thread, however I keep coming back to your image, simply stunning.

I honestly think Houghy has a top idea, regarding selling this image to the Yacht owner.

If I owned that Yacht and saw this image of it, in such an iconic location, I would want the image and would be looking to put the photographer on a retainer.

Regards
Trevor

[Honoguy]

I'm looking out my window overlooking the Honolulu Harbor at the yacht now. If I can only figure out an angle to get a tour . . . .

[bloodhound31]

If I had 94million, I would be building a spaceship....

[supernova1965]

The only thing wrong with it is it has no Observatory on board has a good spot for one though and no problem getting to dark sites but tracking might be a problem:rofl:

[lacad01]

Beautiful shot :thumbsup: Imagine seeing the New Year in on that thing, sipping on the bubbly, ahhhh, one can only dream :)

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Hummmpf.
Rather...."plasticy".
Most certainly NOT a Benetti!
Great shot though! Beautifully framed & exposed.
I feel the ever-so-slight softness actually adds to the image.
Reminds one of stumbling back to one's "punt' after a sufficiency of Kristal.

[Jeffkop]

Thats a yacht ????????
Hmmmm ... not in my world it isnt, however its one hell of a photo... Great picture.
Must be good to spend 94 mill on something .. sell it when the ashtrays are full for 70 mill and not give a hoot about the other 24. If the truth be known, the whole 94 mill is probably just playing money anyway.

Thanks for the pic Andrew

[multiweb]

Nah... after a couple of beers anyone can track and look good at the same time :lol:

[supernova1965]

You would need flat seas though or it might not be so easy :rolleyes::lol:

[Inmykombi]

Very nice Photo RB.

I wonder what it't cost for a week on that little baby ?

[mithrandir]

Don't know about that one, but a 51m sloop was going for 127,000 Euro/week, until the owners sold it.

[FlashDrive]

:shrug: I get this when I ' click ' on link.....


404: Page not found
This error is generated when there was no web page with the name you specified at the web site.
Troubleshooting suggestions:
Ensure the page you are linking to exists in the correct folder.
Check your file name for case sensitivity . Index.htm is not the same as index.htm!
Temporarily disable any rewrite rules by renaming your .htaccess file if it exists.



Flash...

[OICURMT]

Honestly... you expect webpages to last "Forever" ???? :lol:

[sgazer]

I got that when I clicked too.....wait a minute...who resurected this thread!!!??

Bet is worth a bit less now though, it's been a few years.

[FlashDrive]

:rolleyes: ...oops....didn't see the date .... besides it's only been about 4 years .....why not .... :lol:

[RB]

Thanks Flash, I've updated the original post to the new website link.
I've included a smaller version here too.

:thumbsup:

[FlashDrive]

Thanks RB.....Talk about Luxurious ....just his ' weekend ' getaway I suppose.

[h0ughy]

Who cares about the length of time. That obviously does not matter to most people whether it be 4 weeks Or 4 years a great shot is worth looking at.

[asimov]

Interesting in more ways than one - I'm only just getting into HDR imaging, & yet I'm just learning that Andrew was doing it 4 years ago?

I'm just a tad slow..:eyepop::lol:

Lovely example of HDR Andrew:thumbsup:

[leon]

Just a magnificent photo Andrew, well done indeed.

Leon

[h0ughy]

you know Andrew I cant get over the fact that people still look this image up - looking at the who is on line bit of IIS it is opened a few times ;)