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Despite a hazy, foggy start, this morning ended up being pretty nice weather-wise.\u00a0 Along with the sunny, and somewhat hazy skies, there wasn’t a breath of wind.\u00a0 And when there’s no wind, there’s sure to be calm, glass-like water.\u00a0 Today wasn’t an exception – both the Thames River and Mill Cove were as smooth as glass.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 So I thought about a couple different framings both here at Mill Cove and down at Fairview.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 As they came into view, I put one of the different framings into practice.\u00a0 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<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9744]\n
Then a standard shot of them rounding the bend<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9743]\n
A cropped pano of them with the boats<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9742]\n
Then a quartet of standard shots using both the telephoto and wide angle<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9741] [cpg_imagefixthumb:9740] [cpg_imagefixthumb:9739] [cpg_imagefixthumb:9738]\n
OK ,time to try and get ahead of them down at Fairview.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 So I parked the car, and started walking a bit north.\u00a0 I was aiming to shoot around the switch a 100 or so yards north.\u00a0 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<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9737] [cpg_imagefixthumb:9736]\n
And as soon as I got up to the switch, NR-2 came into view at the top end of Fairview Yard.\u00a0 A few moments later, they came close enough for the telephoto.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9735]\n
Then a switch to the wide angle for the shot I had in mind<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9734]\n
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.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9733] [cpg_imagefixthumb:9732]\n
And finally a telephoto of the power rounding the bend to the south of me<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9731]\n
As they pulled to a stop, they were starting to do some switching work.\u00a0 So I decided to head back to the office and call it a morning…well, almost.\u00a0 I got one shot of the Coast Guard training vessel as it was passing by the State Pier<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:9730]\n
Then I called it a morning, and headed back to the office for the remainder of the day.<\/p>\n
Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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