Earlier this year, three dry dock facilities at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Washington state underwent a major seismic upgrade. The seismic mitigation effort involved reinforcing the walls of the dry docks with tie-downs—a technique never before used at the Bremerton facility. A joint venture of Kiewit-Alberici SIOP MACC was awarded the $76.35-million task order for the work in January.

Wendy D. Hallmark captured the action of workers guiding a hydraulic anchor drilling rig into place inside the walls of Dry Dock 4 in February. She used a Canon EOS R3, using a 70-200mm F2.8 lens, shot at 1/100 sec, f/6.3, while standing on a barge across from the workers. “Compositionally, I thought this scene offered an opportunity to use leading lines that direct the viewers eyes to the energy and interaction of the workers,” Hallmark explained.