neila Posted April 14, 2009 Share #1 Posted April 14, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I took a boat out the other week while this modest leisure craft was parked up! An impressive bit of machinery. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 14, 2009 Posted April 14, 2009 Hi neila, Take a look here Parked on the Solent. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Guest Jockele Posted April 14, 2009 Share #2 Posted April 14, 2009 big! best wishes Jockele Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted April 14, 2009 Share #3 Posted April 14, 2009 Neil - Talk about conspicuous consumption! I like the color in #1 better (due to direction of the sun) but think the image deserves a slight rotation and a slight exposure adjsutment for a bit more impact. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neila Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share #4 Posted April 14, 2009 Hi Stuart, I processed those too quickly - the second picture is colour corrected in DNG, the first is 'as taken'. Taken on a 50mm lens and then cropped as I wasn't allowed to get within 250 yards. They had guns. And other stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
USA road racer Posted April 17, 2009 Share #5 Posted April 17, 2009 Neila, what was the ID number on the island of the ship? There are only 9 of these Nimitz class carriers afloat! The 10th one is almost ready to go. I have been aboard the USS John C. Stennis, CVN-74 when my daughter in law served aboard her. Almost 1100' in length 300' wide 100,000 tons of displacement and 4 1/2 acres of flight deck space! Carries almost 90 fixed wing aircraft. Holds 3 million gallons of jet fuel! 2 nuclear reactors for power! I remember the Stennis parked next to the USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 in Bremmerton Washington at the Naval Base there. Wish I would have been allowed to take that photo!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neila Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share #6 Posted April 19, 2009 It's the Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurpreston Posted April 20, 2009 Share #7 Posted April 20, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Nice shots. Carried me back to my Navy days, when I was part of the commissioning crew of the USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65). I wasn't much of a photographer in those days, but I can remember one day standing on the flight deck taking photos of the A3J Vigilante, which I did not know at the time was fairly highly classified. Three marines escorted me down to their workspace, where they promptly removed all of the film from my camera, and gave me a stearn warning not to do that any more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neila Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share #8 Posted April 20, 2009 I was part of the commissioning crew of the USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65). . Wow! That must have been hugely exciting. Wasn't it the first nuclear powered ship? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurpreston Posted July 20, 2009 Share #9 Posted July 20, 2009 Yes, Enterprise (CVN-65) was the first nuclear powered carrier, and having come from a straight-deck carrier that served in WWII before that, it was like moving from motel 6 to the newest hotel in Bahrain (sp?). Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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