Sunset Departure

[AlanLichty]

I sent my drone up to scout the sunset a couple of nights ago which ended up being confined to the horizon with few clouds. While I was scanning around I was surprised to spot a freighter sailing downriver on the Columbia River. For all of the sunset flights I have made this was the first time I have spotted a ship underway this late in the day. I guess the river pilots know the shipping channels in the Columbia well enough to get them out to Astoria in the dark but it's not something I have observed before.

In any case it was also the first time I have had something like this in the scene for a sense of scale for this view of the river so I grabbed a 3 panel telephoto sequence at 166mm and cropped it to a 16:9 frame for this image:

C&C always welcome.

 

[JimFox]

This is a pretty nice sunset Alan. The added detail about the freighter is icing on the cake.

 

[AlanLichty]

This is a pretty nice sunset Alan. The added detail about the freighter is icing on the cake.

Thanks Jim - the sunset color show was confined to near the horizon so even at 70mm the top of the frame is empty skies but has a nice look to it with the telephoto. The river is about 2.5 miles away so scale has always been lacking with the view from 390' above ground level.