I'm a plankowner I was there at the commissioning. I also noticed you wanted to make a photo album. If you go to navsource.org they have pages of pictures of the ship.
I was there a few weeks ago and we talked to the guards at parking lot F entrance and they escorted us to the edge of the pier for a few pictures. If you go after that gate is closed you can see her from parking lot f but the Independence blocks most of the view.