Floating Battalion - U. S. S. Green Bay Acrylic Print

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The USS Green Bay (LPD-20), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, enters San Francisco Bay. Built by Northrup Grumman Ship Systems and commissioned on January 24, 2009, the ship is designed to deliver a fully equipped battalion of 800 Marines. The USS Green Bay is homeported at Naval Base San Diego and is assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...