Leisure shopping for me is less enjoyable than having a tooth filled at the dentist without the benefit of a local anaesthetic. When my wife suggested a little retail therapy at Southampton’s West Quay shopping Centre, my response was to offer to go but to keep out of her way by taking my camera down to the Town Quay and Mayflower Park to see if there was anything interesting to photograph. How glad I am that I did as one of the vessels that was in Port was the brand new cruise ship Celebrity Beyond. According to Internet sources the 140600 Gross Ton Cruise ship is one of Celebrity Cruise Lines Edge Class, was built in France in 2022 and is Registered in Malta. She is scheduled to undertake a one way, 10 day cruise from Southampton to Barcelona Spain on the 27th of April 2022.

This image of her from her Stern looking forward was captured from Mayflower Park using my Canon EOS R5 camera and Canon RF 50mm f1.8 lens (the fantastic plastic). The name has been given by photographers because of the lens’s amazing performance for not very much money. I am pleased with this image because of its quality, sharpness and colour rendition. Apart from minor cropping it has not been processed in any computer software in any way.

The image shows Celebrity Beyond tied up at berth 101, the City Cruise Terminal, in Southampton’s Western Docks on Monday 25th April 2022.