Omaha 15O! Photos

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 5:18 pm

http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho ... adid=49196

DMRyan · Post by **DMRyan** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:36 pm

That new camera of yours is bananas man! Great photos of what looked like a great time. Wish I could've seen it myself.

Minneapolis Boy · Post by **Minneapolis Boy** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:50 pm

Awesome! I was supposed to be in Omaha this weekend, but plans fell apart. Thanks for sharing some of it with those of us who could not be in the Big O!

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:46 am

Aaron... fantastic! I am so glad you got some pictures... my 20th reunion left me pretty tied up this weekend. I like the vantage point you chose as well! (I wish I had my camera with me... we were on the riverview terrace of the Qwest Center with the my class of '84 mates!).

Anyone happen to get any pictures of the 311 crowd?!?

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:10 pm

Here's my photos of the fireworks, taken from the 5th floor observation patio of the Gallup building. Unfortunately when I went to resize for the web here at home they appeared much darker than on my calibrated monitor at work- hopefully you don't suffer the same fate

. For those camera buffs they were taken with an Olympus E-20N 5mp on Time Priority (2sec exposures) anywhere from 9mm to ~20mm with the exception of the close-up of Ricks, which was 36mm. A tripod was used of course!

http://members.cox.net/astreur/fireworks

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:29 pm

You may need to add the html tag: http://members.cox.net/astreur/fireworks.html

Great shots Tuna. Were there that many boats out on the river as this leads me to believe:

And Aaron - I hope to see more great entries as you play with your new camera. Thanks for sharing!

jays25ks · Post by **jays25ks** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:35 pm

wow what a great view of the show. I forgot that there would have been a lot of boates on the river to watch it.

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:55 pm

Fantastic tuna!

Would you mind if I created a page for these on the website along with Aaron's pictures (with credits of course).

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:05 pm

Yeah, go ahead and make the site! If you want bigger pics than what I put on the cox.net page let me know and I can surely accommodate. The originals are about 1mb each.

There were a lot of boats on the river Saturday night. It was amusing to watch them jockey for position. The coast guard had set up the "no boat zone" right around the US Park Service building along the river and the boats were stacked back quite a way up the river. Thanks for the compliments (and the tip about the .html extension i forgot, Coyote).

-Adam

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:11 pm

Thanks tuna! (perhaps you could email me your name... I'll post with credits)

I actually put my boat in Lake Manawa for the Iowa Susquicentennial fireworks... the only time I've ever taken the boat out of the water in the dark. It was a nightmare... about one seventy-five or more boats all trying to get out of the water at once in the dark... trailers backing up everywhere... then it was about 2 hours before traffic began moving out of the park.

The river scares me enough... I wouldn't ever consider going out there to watch the fireworks... although I suspect most of these folks probably have slips at NP Dodge/Anchor Inn/Bellevue... which would probably make things easier.

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:21 pm

For now I'm a dedicated land lubber! Traffic was bad enough on Saturday, I wouldn't want to imagine trying to dock a boat as well. I would assume most had slips nearby, many looked like awful nice boats.

Adam