This weekend, the boats are tied up in Waterford, NY, the Eastern terminus of the Erie portion of the canal. You can read more about the museum, these boats and this years trip on the canal at http://www.lcmm.org/index.htm.
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Sailing Canal Boat Lois McClure
The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, located in Vergennes, Vermont, has a fleet of boats that operate on Lake Champlain as well as other waterways. This year, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the beginning of construction on the old Erie Canal, two of its boats, the schooner Lois McClure and the tugboat C. L. Churchill, are traversing the present day canal.
This weekend, the boats are tied up in Waterford, NY, the Eastern terminus of the Erie portion of the canal. You can read more about the museum, these boats and this years trip on the canal at http://www.lcmm.org/index.htm.
This weekend, the boats are tied up in Waterford, NY, the Eastern terminus of the Erie portion of the canal. You can read more about the museum, these boats and this years trip on the canal at http://www.lcmm.org/index.htm.
Monday, July 3, 2017
High Water Over Cohoes Falls
As a followup to yesterday's post about high water, I'm including some shots of Cohoes Falls from late this afternoon. Late afternoon is the best time to get the rainbow in the mist, if you're in the right place and the wind is strong enough in the right direction.
I used a circular polarizer filter which, if I oriented it to darken the sky and accentuate the clouds, the rainbow disappeared. But, with it oriented to maximize the rainbow, the rainbow was more prominent than without the filter.
My tripods were in a different car so I had to rely on hand holding which isn't really a problem there except the higher the camera is the better the scene. You can only hand hold so high, especially while bracketing for HDR processing.
Here are three shots followed by a video.
Apparently Blogger uses Flash for the videos which won't work on iOS devices. So, here's a youtube version of the video.
I used a circular polarizer filter which, if I oriented it to darken the sky and accentuate the clouds, the rainbow disappeared. But, with it oriented to maximize the rainbow, the rainbow was more prominent than without the filter.
My tripods were in a different car so I had to rely on hand holding which isn't really a problem there except the higher the camera is the better the scene. You can only hand hold so high, especially while bracketing for HDR processing.
Here are three shots followed by a video.
Apparently Blogger uses Flash for the videos which won't work on iOS devices. So, here's a youtube version of the video.
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Days of Rain
Almost every day for the past handful of days torrential rains have passed through in the late afternoon or early evening hours - or both. There hasn't been a lot of wind, hail and lightning - just lots of rain.
The rain brought the level of the rivers up almost to the top of the wall in Waterford.
And here are some shots, also from this morning, showing the high level of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers as the Steamboat Meet takes place at Waterford Harbor.
Here's a graphic from the National Weather Service showing rainfall totals from this system. All this area pretty much drains into the Hudson or Mohawk Rivers by the time they reach Waterford, the immediate Lake George area notwithstanding.
The rain brought the level of the rivers up almost to the top of the wall in Waterford.
And here are some shots, also from this morning, showing the high level of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers as the Steamboat Meet takes place at Waterford Harbor.
Here's a graphic from the National Weather Service showing rainfall totals from this system. All this area pretty much drains into the Hudson or Mohawk Rivers by the time they reach Waterford, the immediate Lake George area notwithstanding.
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