Reflecting on fireworks

Still waters reflect the fireworks in their ripples. 

 

An opening salvo

 

 

A BIG shell

 

 

Midway lower shell

 

During the finale

 

Seen in the middle is the barge from which the fireworks were launched.

 

Building in water

 

Many ripples in the light

A long exposure at night of lights reflected in rippled water.

Riffled city

 

Blue-blue skies

 

Riffles on the water transform the city seen.

Light waters

 

Pass by and light up

 

A passing scene is reflected in rippled waters.

 

Orange longer

 

Green red orange

 

Long time exposures of reflections on water make wriggles.  The "orange" one seems to be the longer one.

Wriggling reflection

 

Oddly shaped

Ripples in still waters can cause writhing reflections.

 

Choptank and Double Skin

Off loading

 

Ripples in the water reflect an oil tank barge and its tug at an offloading facility.   

 

Both the tugboat "Choptank" and the oil barge "Double Skin 56" belong to the Vane Brothers Company of Baltimore, Maryland.  The company has been in operation since 1898.

 

The oil barge is of the 50K BBL capacity class; if loaded 100% full, it could hold 56K+ BBL.  It was built in 2006 by Jeffboat of Jeffersonville, Indiana.  That company closed down in 2018; the site on the Ohio River had located a shipyard since 1834, initially as the Howard Shipyard, which built steamboats.

The tugboat "Choptank" is the fifth "Patapsco" class tug designed by Frank Basile of Entech and Associates of Houma, Louisiana.  It was constructed by Thoma-Sea Boat Builders of Lockport, Louisiana.  In all, fifteen "Patapsco" class tugboats were produced between 2004 and 2009.  Naval architect Frank Basile passed away in 2018; over 600 vessels of his designs were built.

 

Two panes

 

Ripples in glass windows

 

The sunlight shining through a window on the sunny side of the building reveals the patterns of two window panes in a window on the shady side of the building. 

 

It is hard to tell if the patterns in these glass panes are the same or different.  They could be the same, one glazed with the pattern facing in and the other facing out.

 

 

Flexing reflection

Multiflexive reflexive

 

Reflections from shore ripple in the water.