PHOTOS: The Transat history

Part one of our photo gallery in association with Blue Green

In part one of this extensive photo gallery in this week building up to the start of the 2004 running of The Transat, we look at the first two decades of the OSTAR, including some of the key boats and some of the legendary skippers.

BlueGreen Pictures

Cowes-based photo agency, BlueGreen Pictures who represent many of the world's top marine photographers, most of them regular contibutors to thedailysail, have launched their new website.

The site includes a new look ‘Home Page’ where visitors can select a portfolio of pictures from four main categories:- Sailing & Watersports; Travel & Adventure; Marine & Miscellaneous and Nature & Wildlife. The site also features a full key word search

With over 20,000 fully captioned pictures already on the site, and a view to doubling this number by the end of the year, those requiring an efficient, fast and fully searchable picture library, can now view, edit and set up their own personal light box system ready for editing and final selection, from the comfort of their own desk.

Since opening in 2001, Bluegreenpictures.com have become an important source for anyone searching for the perfect picture. As well as supplying the major yachting and watersports media around the world, clients include professional picture researchers for magazines ranging from lifestyle to the natural world; book publishers and advertising and marketing agencies. Apart from the core business of the agency in publishing and advertising, pictures from the agency have been used to illustrate such things as the menu of a famous cruise liner and to liven up the walls of head office boardrooms for the Chairmen of blue chip multi-nationals.

The images have also become accessible to the general public thanks to the launch last year of the Bluegreen Gallery. A fine selection of framed images can be viewed both in the gallery based in Cowes, Isle of Wight or ordered via the website allowing everyone to have a little piece of fine quality art in their own home or place of work.