Friday NR-2

Despite a hazy, foggy start, this morning ended up being pretty nice weather-wise.  Along with the sunny, and somewhat hazy skies, there wasn’t a breath of wind.  And when there’s no wind, there’s sure to be calm, glass-like water.  Today wasn’t an exception – both the Thames River and Mill Cove were as smooth as glass.

This morning I was able to head out at the usual time, and ended up making it to Mill Cove ahead of P&W NR-2 by a few minutes.  While waiting I pondered the idea of changing up a few things when I was shooting NR-2 today – you know, just to mix things up a bit.  So I thought about a couple different framings both here at Mill Cove and down at Fairview.

A few minutes later, NR-2 called home reporting that they were south of MP5, so I got into position at the south end of the glassy cove.  As they came into view, I put one of the different framings into practice.  Instead of my usual focusing on only the train, I panned a bit to the right, including the dock, boats & gazebo in the background, in addition to NR-2

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Then a standard shot of them rounding the bend

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A cropped pano of them with the boats

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Then a quartet of standard shots using both the telephoto and wide angle

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OK ,time to try and get ahead of them down at Fairview.

Today, unlike most days, the traffic lights cooperated, and I was greeted by green lights as I headed for the bottom end of Fairview yard.  So I parked the car, and started walking a bit north.  I was aiming to shoot around the switch a 100 or so yards north.  On the way, I got a couple shots of passing ships – one US Coast Guard training vessel, and one US Navy Sub Base Police boat

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And as soon as I got up to the switch, NR-2 came into view at the top end of Fairview Yard.  A few moments later, they came close enough for the telephoto.

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Then a switch to the wide angle for the shot I had in mind

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As they rolled past, the crew gave a nice wave out the window, and as the rolled on, I got a couple of different low angle shots, incorporating part of the switch into the framing.

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And finally a telephoto of the power rounding the bend to the south of me

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As they pulled to a stop, they were starting to do some switching work.  So I decided to head back to the office and call it a morning…well, almost.  I got one shot of the Coast Guard training vessel as it was passing by the State Pier

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Then I called it a morning, and headed back to the office for the remainder of the day.

Thanks for looking!
Tom