9 June 2006
Rainbow myth
by Gavin, onboard the Esperanza
Thats a great cardboard cutout!
©Greenpeace/Gavin Newman
Of course the Rainbow Warrior doesn't actually exist, she's just a mythical symbol of this great organisation. Well this is what I was beginning to think anyway. Having worked with Greenpeace for some 14 years now and never having even seen the Warrior, let alone sailed on her I was starting to think that a conspiracy was afoot and the organisation hiding something. With computer programmes these days, maybe, just maybe all those pictures I'm seen were invented. On several occasions in the past I've been going to sail on the Warrior or visit her but everytime plans have changed and we never quite met and so the myth was perpetuated until today.
Up at 5:30am to witness a stunning sunrise - was today finally going to be the day... I was assured that a blip on the radar was the Warrior approaching and eventually that familiar silhouette came into view. Lifting off in the helicopter into the early morning sunlight we spent an hour photographing these two ships whose paths so rarely cross. The Rainbow Warrior looking magnificent under sail and the Esperanza beyond bristling with her high tech communications equipment. Two very different faces of an organisation but with common goals.
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Aah, that's a lovely image I have in my head of the two ships. xx
Posted by: Jodie at June 12, 2006 3:06 PM
woo, nice picture, Gav!
Posted by: Dave - Webbie at June 12, 2006 8:33 PM
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