While cruising across the oil tanker shipping lane in northern Prince William Sound, I grabbed this shot of the “Polar Enterprise” oil tanker entering the Valdez Arm. It looks like I was a lot closer but the photo was taken with an equivalent of a 910mm lens. The man on the bow called the “watchman” really puts things in perspective in relation to the size of these ships. This was just north of Bligh Reef, the location of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in 1989.
The watchman stands on the bow of the Polar Enterprise oil tanker as it travels north into the Valdez arm, Chugach mountains range borders the channel, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Canon 1D Mark IV, 500mm f/4L IS w/1.4x, 1/5000 @f/5.6, ISO 100
The Polar Enterprise oil tanker travels north into the Valdez arm, Chugach mountains range borders the channel, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Canon 1Ds Mark III, 100-400mm f/5.6L IS (250mm) 1/640 @ f/5.0, ISO 100
