(Ed. note: Former students, Capt. Jay Hartland and Capt. Rick Etsell both sent these pics today. The Washington State Ferry Route between Clinton and Mukilteo is 2.3 miles. Ross Fotheringham took these excellent photos. Go over to his page and take look at his other work. The text that came with the pics follows:)
On Thursday October 18th Western Washington was hit with a 50+ MPH wind storm. Here are my pictures of the event.
After work I made my way down to the Mukilteo Lighthouse Park where I witness the Mukilteo to Clinton ferry taking a pounding.
These Issaquah 130 Class ferries are over 300 feet long and 78 feet wide and weight in at 2477 tons (4,954,000 lbs) unloaded......
I'll start with some Rock & Roll..
Ok, here's one for you Long Flume lovers... During storms like this the crew plots a course which puts the ferry in the least vulnerable position, but at some point they have to change course, and when they did Puget Sound made up for lost time. After this run the ferry system stopped running at full capacity and ran 1/2 empty for the rest of the night.
Note that there are no longer cars visible in the last shot. I'm sure they were washed into the cars behind them
Each shot was taken 0.3 seconds apart hand held at 320mm's.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Wild Ride
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Great Photos!!
Great shots. I've looked at MASH and Multiply and am just about sure that Google's blogspot is the best for blogging. For the networking end, it is hard to tell. Perhaps Multiply. Don't know for sure yet. One is going to go for sure, maybe both.
I hope no one left their cars' windows rolled down...
magnificent capture
Appears the photographer was Ross Fotheringham.
http://www.pbase.com/trackside_photography
My name is Ross Fotheringham. I'm the guy show took those ferry pictures on your website. Sadly they were taken from another site I had them on where someone cropped my copyright tag out, copied and pasted my text and sent them all over the Internet. I guess I could have worse problems in life, but a number of people have sent these to King5, KomoTV, and who knows how many other sites claiming that they are the owner of these shots. So much so I was contacted by King5 since my name and email where in the exif data on most of the shots people were sending them. It's been one of those Cool, but not experiences.
I'd appreciate it if you would replace these pictures with the original ones off my site that still have my copyright tag on them. That helps keep the average Joe from claiming ownership. Also please feel free to link them from my site to your site, but it would be appreciated if you'd take this modified version down. As you can image I have invested a lot of hard work and personal funds into my hobby.
To help prove myself, here is a link to the original site they were taken from:
http://www.snowest.com/fusetalk/messageview.cfm?catid=11&threadid=336515&enterthread=y
Here is a link to my site - please feel free to plug it, and link pictures from it:
http://www.pbase.com/trackside_photography
Lastly, I did write the WSF to see if I could send an enlargement to the captain and some of the crew, but received no reply. Maybe someone on here could help me do that.
Thanks Ross,
I'll do that. If you saw my post then you know I was looking to give the owner credit, as I do every place I can. Appreciate you letting me know.
Richard
Richard,
Thanks for your help and understand!
Sounds good! I'm exporting my blog to HERE! lol! Cherei
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