The 225-foot long Canadian bulk carrier Thunder Bay had just loaded up in Hamilton Harbour, ready to leave for open water. It would travel through the St. Lawrence Seaway into the world’s oceans, to dock within a couple of weeks in Sydney, Australia.

As the freighter approached, I positioned the drone on the lake side of the bridges, a few feet above the middle of the canal and left it hovering there.

I took several photographs as the vessel approached the drone, then, to avoid a collision, directed the drone to climb into the air.

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