Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii
“December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor
An historic marker attached to the white memorial structure that sits across the remains of the sunken battleship reads, in part: “USS Arizona Memorial, War Memorial of the Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, …In honor and in commemoration of the members of the armed forces of the United States who gave their lives to their country during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7,1941. Public Law 87-201. Construction authorized by the 85th Congress. Appropriation granted by 87th Congress.”
At the bottom of the same marker, the losses of that day are noted: US Army – 228, US Navy – 2004, and US Marine Corps – 109. The noise and terror of the battle that day, 70 years ago, have been replaced by calm and homage embodied by the memorial.
This photograph of the flag of the United States of America flying in tropical blue skies over the USS Arizona Memorial was composed using a 24mm lens. Note that the morning sun was shielded by one of the open ceiling beams of the USS Arizona Memorial structure. The Manual Mode exposure settings were: f/8 with a shutter speed of 1/1000th of a second using a film speed of 200 ISO. According to the “f/16 rule,” that exposure calculation means even if this scene had been in bright, direct sunlight it would have been underexposed by one-third of one f/stop. The creative curiosity comes from the fact that this photograph is purely backlit.
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