Just as the title says. A brief, 1 minute, 21 second audio and picture movie. The goal was to impart the feel from the day’s event’s. It starts with the emcee’s introduction and crowd shots, continues with Vera Alexander blessing the ship and breaking the champagne bottle and concludes as the Sikuliaq slips into the Menominee River with the subsequent splash.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Big. Big splash at the Sikuliaq Launch.
Photography, TravelHow great the image I was about to post fits perfects with the photo challenge this week.
Last saturday the 261-foot Sikuliaq launched into the Menominee River from Marinette Marine Corporation, Wis. The National Science Foundation owned and UAF operated vessel entered the water at a steep, 60-degree angle. It created quite a splash. Unfortunately the cloudy sky that deposited rain all day long makes it difficult to truly appreciate the size of the wave. The person on the tug boat in the lower left corner offers some perspective. Stay tuned for more Sikuliaq coverage.
Knowing it would happen fast and be unpredictable I went with a wide-angle lens and a high, 3200 ISO so I could use a quick shutter speed.
Here’s a Daily News-Miner article covering the christening and launch ceremony, as well as some science capabilities and the future journey of the Sikuliaq, co-written with my advisor Lynne Lott.
Please click on the image to view full size. © Robin Wood
Research Vessel Sikuliaq gets its first taste of the water, Marinette, Wis. 25mm at f13, 1/1000 sec.
Soundslides: “Song of the Sikuliaq”
Alaska, Music, Photography“Song of the Sikuliaq” is an eight-minute piece of music composed by UAF graduate student Emerson Eads. Performed by the Fairbanks Arctic Chamber Orchestra, audio and video recordings will be played during the launch of UAF’s new Research Vessel Sikuliaq, Saturday Oct. 13, 2012, in Marinette, Wis. Click on the above links to view articles published in UAF’s Sun Star, relating specifically to the musical composition and the capabilities of the research vessel.
Soundslides is a multimedia story tool combining still images with audio. The purpose is to tell a more complete story then audio or images could individually.
The full-length video of “Song of the Sikuliaq” can be viewed here.
Far North Light 