Fall River Heritage State Park and Battleship Cove

This blog is different than my usual blog.  It is not about the natural area around us and the creatures that inhabited, but about an interesting location to go and visit.  It is the Fall River Heritage State Park, which is on the shoreline of the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts.  Surrounding this 8 1/2 acre park Is Battleship Cove, which is the largest collection of decommissioned warships in the world.  The center of battleship Cove is the battleship USS Massachusetts. 

It also includes the USS Joseph P.  Kennedy, Junior.,  USS Lionfish, PT Boats, USS Fall River and the Hiddensee.
There is also a restored 1920s carousel from the, Lincoln Park amusement park.
We arrive prior to sunset, noting that there were clouds in the sky and hoping for a colorful sunset.  However, no colorful sunset, but was able to obtain multiple pictures of the area.  Most of my pictures were 3 picture bracket's and and I edit the pictures, utilizing NIK software, mainly HDR Efex Pro, color Efex Pro 4, VIVEZA and  also used Topaz software Star Effects.  The main post processing was performed in Light Room 4.

The Full Moon

Last evening I went out scouting locations to utilize for my workshop on Moon photography tonight and settled on Gooseberry for the location to do the workshop photography segment.  I utilized Sundroid Pro app on my android phone, which not only gave me the times of moonrise, but also the exact location where the moonrise would occur.  With the Sundroid Pro app, you can also track the sun and the planets.
I set up my 300 mm lens so that I could take a series of photographs of the moon as it rose.  The reason for this was that I was planning to post process the pictures into a sequential panoramic picture. Here is the result.
I also utilized by 500 mm lens with a 1.7 mm converter on it to obtain a full frame photograph of the moon.
As it became darker and the stars appeared, I also photograph the constellation Orion. I post processed the Orion picture with the Topaz new Star Effects And Creative Light Plug-In.