Rehearsal

 There's not been much to shoot down at the river lately -- meaning shots I haven't gotten a hundred times before. Maybe a boat that I've never photographed has come through, but other than that, it's been pretty normal here.

This evening as the day was ending I got this shot of the M/V Louisville.

This image has problems. The light wasn't great, and I shot it from inside my truck because the boat arrived at the park just as I got there and, frankly, I didn't want to spend a lot of time out in the cold.

I think of this as a practice run. Looking at the original image, I would have preferred to have more daylight. Having a late April or early May background with lots of green foliage would have helped. And I noticed some things to correct with where I place the camera and how to compensate for lens quirks that you don't notice until you look at the photo large.

This spring I'll go back and get a simlar picture in better conditions and with a little more planning, I hope.