I ventured into town tonight and caught them moving the ship. Scott alder came with me and used my canon400D with a sigma 18-125mm lens, and I used the Pentax K10D with a sigma f2.8 20-40mm lens.
Wasn't too bad to start with but man did it get packed by T hour (tide). Standing room only. People were coming in who were watching TV and saw a news update then just ventured on down to the Ocean Baths.
It was indeed a treat to see the tugs in action. The Pacific responder is a sizable tug. OK the fisrt few were taken by Scott on the canon - I have no idea of the settings he used.
here are mine taken with my K10d and the Sigma f2.8 20-40 lens. It did start to rain a little as we were finishing up and walking back to the car. I knew it would be crappy tonight because I went to the effort of setting up the eq6 and the ED80 to image venus and saturn. got some early focus shots of Venus, then the cloud rolled in. Bugger!!.
and the last ones I was mucking about with the f ratio, 30 seconds on f9.5 or 11 ,cant really remember. anyway by this stage Al Meehan popped up and said Hello - he managed to take some shots of Scott and I taking shots, and also of the tugs from the rock platform. Maybe he will post them tomorrow, I know he had a lot further to walk back to the car than me
Great shots Dave,
So have they actually moved it off the sand?
No just to the last position I showed in the photos, but hey thats a million miles from where it was earlier. Perhaps tomorrow night it will be off? then maybe not its just a guessing game at the moment
I'd love to animate it for you Houghy, but an animation of that many frames won't fit in here. It will end up waaayyyy over the limit size.
if you could do it and maybe Mike allow it to be uploaded somewhere? would be great to see. LOL looks awesome on the back of the camera scrolling through, not only is the ship moving but the clouds
now if someone was clever they could time laspe this into a gif?
Already done - well someone else's photos Saw on the news this morning while at the gym. Someone who was permitted to be directly in front - unless it was from the coastwatch webcam?
ps. great photos Dave, thanks for keeping us informed.
then maybe not
Saw on the news this morning while at the gym. Someone who was permitted to be directly in front - unless it was from the coastwatch webcam?
