The bulk carrier Thunder Bay was leaving Hamilton Harbor for open water. As it approached, I wanted to shoot straight down and capture the patterns of the deck, but I was nervous. The freighter was moving fast, and I had to make everything happen in a few seconds.

What if I went too high, and ruined the drama of the images? What if I went too low, and the drone was struck by the radio antenna mast?

In those few moments, I adjusted the altitude until I figured, eyeballing it, that I reached a safe compromise. As the massive ship passed under the drone, I captured this image which reveals the deck as a repeating pattern of hatch covers.

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