Underground Instructions and Overhead Precautions
A contractor and an inspector review the installation instructions for a new underground garbage dumpster in Hanby Alley, off East Home Street. My Final Photo for June 26, 2025.
Nikon Z30 with 12-28mm DX lens, the equivalent to an 18mm to 42mm FX lens. ISO 160, f5.3, 1/80th shutter speed, 24mb file size, RAW, edited and cropped in Camera Raw and final editing in Photoshop.
Nikon Z6III with manual focus Nikon 500mm mirror lens. Fixed f8 fstop, 1/2000th shutter speed, ISO 200. There are two difficulties in making this photo. First, find an angle between trees from the school parking lot across the street for an unobstructed view. Then, finding an angle that didn’t have electric and data cables in the way.
The 500mm mirror was suitable for showing the men working at the top of the new cell tower column, but it was too tight to capture the environment. Used the 300mm f4 lens for a wider telephoto view that showed the water tower and the existing cell towers on its top.
The most striking (pun intended ) moment in this series of photos from the first to last photo that I made in eight minutes is that I would have spent more time trying to find a better angle and would have launched the drone for a much different view but work on the metal tower and kids enjoying the adjacent Jaycee pool came to an abrupt halt when a thunderstorm announced its nearby presence for “Everybody out of the pool” and the work crew abandoning the top of a lightning rod.