Protect This House
This will be the last of my uploads from the Boston Photo Mob Prime Lens Sunday photowalk. This shot struck out immediately after I uploaded my shots and knew that it’d be the last I’d upload from the week.
What you are actually seeing here is the view through the viewfinder of a 20mm anti-aircraft gun, one of seven mounted on the U.S.S. Cassin Young, a Fletcher-class destroyer that was commissioned by the United States Navy from the last day of December 1943 through till April 29th, 1960. She was named for Captain Cassin Young who served heroically at Pearl Harbor (and was awarded the Medal of Honor) and died fighting valiantly for his country in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The USS Cassin Young is now preserved as a memorial ship in the Boston Navy Yard alongide Old Ironsides herself, the USS Constitution.
Again, I really dig this shot (even if it is my own creation). In particular, I really love the natural superposition of several elements here. You can see some of the cranes along the left, the flag at the front of the ship dead center, other ships in the surrounding waters, and even a bit of myself- mostly in the form of a brown blur of a hand holding up the camera, but there it is anyways.
I love that flag almost as much as I love the Lone Star Flag (which, for those of you unaware, is allowed to fly as high as the flag in the photograph).
Nikon D40
35mm, f/4.5, 1/800 sec, ISO200
