Deep Maintenance
This view is looking up the Elizabeth River at ships undergoing maintenance or refits amidst the cranes surrounding the various dry docks and maintenance facilities in Portsmouth, VA.
On the left is the USS Ashland (LSD-48), a Whidbey Island-class landing ship dock originally commissioned in 1992. She appears to still be afloat and listing slightly to port. On the right, partially hidden under some large tarpaulins is an unidentifiable Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer (DDG-51 class). She appears to be in a large floating dry dock that is behind a large barge.
The view is somewhat foreshortened by the lens - the distance from the pavilion on the outer corner of the Waterside Marina (in Norfolk, VA.) on the left, across the river to the bow of the DDG-51 is actually about 500m.
I took this image right at the end of a boat trip to see Naval Station Norfolk, on which long lenses were not allowed.
Deep Maintenance
This view is looking up the Elizabeth River at ships undergoing maintenance or refits amidst the cranes surrounding the various dry docks and maintenance facilities in Portsmouth, VA.
On the left is the USS Ashland (LSD-48), a Whidbey Island-class landing ship dock originally commissioned in 1992. She appears to still be afloat and listing slightly to port. On the right, partially hidden under some large tarpaulins is an unidentifiable Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer (DDG-51 class). She appears to be in a large floating dry dock that is behind a large barge.
The view is somewhat foreshortened by the lens - the distance from the pavilion on the outer corner of the Waterside Marina (in Norfolk, VA.) on the left, across the river to the bow of the DDG-51 is actually about 500m.
I took this image right at the end of a boat trip to see Naval Station Norfolk, on which long lenses were not allowed.