This is a new title, although I’ve had part of the experience before. Frequently, I take photos but don’t notice the most interesting detail of the shot until I download the files to the computer, the bigger screen. Here and here are some examples.
This post, though, features others’ shots because I didn’t snap what I saw. I couldn’t make sense of it and for some reason that escapes me now, I failed to use the zoom although I wondered what it looked like up closer. As I said before, I don’t know why I did not shoot.
From my angle, what I saw was more like this, only tinier. Click here for the source of these photos.
Strangely, what I took was in the opposite direction . . . maybe because I trusted there’d be something to find on a map or chart when I looked it up.
In the other case, what I saw was this . . . in the lower quarter of the photo, which originally appeared here.
And I took a photo of the sign so that I could
research it later, but I needed more time in location to get the shot I wanted. Below is what I really wanted to know. Click on the b/w photo for the source.
Anyhow, lessons to be learned as a photographer need to be heeded.
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May 23, 2017 at 5:36 pm
Jim Gallant
There is a kind of black humor footnote here, as the plackard and last photograph caption mention the vessel “Archibald Butt”, and takes an ironic twist when discussing an “old sunken hull”. Major Archibald Butt was a military aide and close confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt, who decided to stay on to assist William Howard Taft when the latter took over the White House in 1909. Taft and Roosevelt soon had their famous political and personal “falling out”, and by late 1911 Roosevelt was debating mounting a challenge to Taft for the 1912 Republican presidential nomination.
In early 1912, Roosevelt approached Butt and asked him to leave President Taft’s staff, and throw his support over to “T.R.” in his quest to regain the Presidency. Strongly conflicted and burdened by feelings of friendship and loyalty to both men, Butt asked President Taft for a brief leave of absence to clear his mind and come to a decision, which President Taft promptly granted to his trusted friend.
Archibald Butt took his brief European vacation, but in the end was never able to give his ultimate support and backing to either Taft or Roosevelt. During his return trip to the United States he lost his life in the early morning hours of April 15th, 1912, when the RMS Titanic sank beneath the dark, glassy North Atlantic. MajorArchibald Butt lost his life on what would become the most celebrated “Old Sunken Hull” in history! – Jim.
May 23, 2017 at 7:37 pm
tugster
Thx, Jim. That’s a great story!