From the coordinates I had received, the ISS was going to appear in the west and travel toward the northeast. Wrong. My spotter told me via cell phone that it was heading in a far different direction than I had expected, so I had to call an audible. Instead of sitting behind the pioneer statue on the capitol mall, I had to dash around to the front of it and pick a new foreground object. Thankfully I was able to still keep the capitol building in the photo!

The few chances I would have had to get a horizontal trajectory of the ISS passing the capitol, it either appeared too far south of the capitol to work photographically or was obscured by clouds. Tonight’s photo, while not what I was trying so hard to set up for, isn’t bad; sometimes creativity gets a kick in the shorts, and this is one example!