Some snaps around the N.S. Savannah and the National Maritime Day proceedings. X100 all, mostly single shot here for the exterior, while the prior post is all HDR for the N.S. Savannah interior.
Baltimore City Fire Department Fireboat "John R. Frazier"
N.S Savannah I
N.S Savannah II
Bow and the gypsum factory
Stern
Lots of lines
Pride of Baltimore. The gray ball floating in between the stays is the nose of the Goodyear Blimp, in town for the running of The Preakness
Damn the torpedoes
that are generally closed right where I am standing to take this snap. On the way back from DC yesterday, I noticed they were open — I noticed because someone was taking a similar shot. On the way to Lowes on a paint buying spree this AM, they were still open and someone else was taking the same shot. On the way back from Lowes, I got over my reluctance to be a copy cat, and took a three shot series.
This, the USNS Fisher is one of three (was four not too long ago) similar Military Sea Lift Command Ships berthed in Baltimore. There were two berthed side by side here on Clinton Street. There still are two at Locust Point, although I think they all shifted positions when the fourth departed. There are 11 of these Bob Hope-class Roll-On, Roll-Off vehicle cargo ships. More info here.
X100 bracketed around 1/125, ISO 400, f/8.0. HDR Efex Pro and the normal Color Efex Pro Nashification.
Just something different and because I followed a link to these great images of a Greenport, NY shipyard. October '08.
Hoorn: 5D, 70-200 f/2.8L @ f/2.8, 180mm, ISO 500, 1/250
Leiden: 5D, 85mm f/1.2L II, @ f/2.8 ISO 400, 1/200
to have discovered the N.S. Savannah is docked in Baltimore. With the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and the resulting nuclear power plant damage, having the original nuclear merchant ship nearby isn't likely to be a point of civic pride. Despite having its reactor removed a long time ago, the Savannah, isn't exactly featured in the harbor anyway. It is docked at pier fronting an old gypsum plant between the Navy's Hospital Ship Comfort pier and the Maryland Transportation Authority's Container Port. N.S. is the abbreviation for Nuclear Ship.
About all the notoriety there is
The ship appears in better shape than the surroundings
Framed by the gypsum plant
The gypsum plant
The Comfort
