Veteran's Day

Old Glory at Patriot's Point

It is Veteran's Day. Thank you to the veteran's who have served our country.


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Slow Times

Posing

It's been kind of slow photographically here recently. There have been some school events that I've taken my camera too, but nothing particularly compiling for the blog. The above is a seagull on the Yorktown that was quite content to pose for me. I was able to shoot it for about five minutes, and it moved around just enough to get different angles of it. I think it was too cold to be worried about some guy pointing a camera at it.

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Message from the Past

A Sailor's Note

When we were on the Yorktown, I explored our quarters and found some messages left by some of the Yorktown's sailors. I took this shot just to record what I had found. Sometimes photography is about recording what we saw and doesn't have to be anything more. Still, it makes you wonder what kind of tapes this sailor had that his crew mates kept "borrowing" them.

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Twilight Symmetry

Twilight at Patriot's Point

This weekend my son's Cub Scout troop camped on the U.S.S. Yorktown memorial at Patriot's Point in Charleston, South Carolina. One of the things I wanted to do was to try to get some sunset and sunrise photographs from the flight deck. However, the flight deck is closed at night for safety reasons since it isn't lit and the airplanes are tied down. They don't want anyone tripping over the cables or falling overboard. However, we could still get out on the pier leading to the Yorktown which is where I took this photograph.

I particularly liked the colors in the sky and the lights outlining the Yorktown and the Ravenell Bridge. Plus, I enjoy photographing reflections which I thought added a nice symmetry to this image. I didn't have my tripod with me, so I braced the camera against the concrete floor of the pier.

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