We had our Corporate Event yesterday at the Grand River Center. It is a wonderful facility to hold such an event and it was well attended by our staff. We had motivational speakers, music, team building activities, and training all rolled into one huge day. By the end of the day I was exhausted. But in a good way 🙂
I was working on the audio / visual presentation when a friend leaned over and said, “Hey Mr. Photographer, did you know the American Queen is docked outside?” WOW! I’ve never photographed the Queen, well not this one anyway. So shirking my duties (at least for 10 minutes) I went outside and captured this photograph. The Twilight looks like a fair-sized boat until you put it in front of the American Queen.
Later in the day after inhaling my lunch I grabbed my camera and went down to the dock. Fortunately the Queen was still tied up. I had a 28 mm lens on the camera and still had trouble getting the entire boat in the field of view.
The lighting wasn’t very good either but I was happy to capture several images of this magnificent river boat.
This is my friend Abby. She has a wonderful photographic talent and has been using a point-and-shoot camera. Yesterday morning she came up to me and said that she had taken the plunge and purchased a DLSR camera.
Even though she bought a Cannon I didn’t hold that against her. So after lunch we both headed for the Queen to take some images. Several other friends joined us to look at the boat. I captured this image because she was trying to take a picture of me. I like the fact that it shows her and her camera.
It is a good picture but not a great one. The stray hairs in the face (in my opinion) detract from the image. It would take hours to remove them so I just show it to convey the joy that she was having over her new camera. 🙂
I was standing on the patio of the Grand River Center talking with another friend of mine and we were watching this barge go through the railroad bridge opening. I had never seen a barge with a tugboat on the front of the barge pushing against the main tugboat.
Both tugs were operating at full power as evidenced by the white water boiling up behind them. It looks counter productive to me but they were making progress so it was all good.
That’s it for today. I hope you enjoy your day. Oh, by the way if you didn’t check out the blog yesterday (because I said there wouldn’t be one) and you like old vehicles scroll down to yesterday’s blog.
Thanks for stopping by and be careful.
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