JWilsonphoto wrote:
A bumpy ride into DFW right now.......................
Now that is one ominous sky Jim! Danger Will Robinson!!!!!
I would NOT want to be airborne when that storm hit! Hope all went well!
If I remember my college Geography/Weather/Climate course, these are called "mammatus" clouds. While they can be very scary, they don't always mean a bad storm. They are named after a part of the female anatomy!
Dan
JWilsonphoto wrote:
A bumpy ride into DFW right now.......................
that’s some crazy looking sky, Jim. I was in Iceland yesterday, the wind was brutal! i got blown sideways a couple times and i am not a skinny guy. In Denmark right now for the air to air shoot on tuesday and thursday. only the Danish f-16 and f-35, no other participants since the airshow itself was postponed, but the Danish air force is willing to fly for us to shoot, hope the weather cooperate.
Douglas L wrote:
that’s some crazy looking sky, Jim. I was in Iceland yesterday, the wind was brutal! i got blown sideways a couple times and i am not a skinny guy. In Denmark right now for the air to air shoot on tuesday and thursday. only the Danish f-16 and f-35, no other participants since the airshow itself was postponed, but the Danish air force is willing to fly for us to shoot, hope the weather cooperate.
Good luck Douglas hope for some good photo's.
Will go to Germany on Thursday, Tigermeet on Friday, then to Berlin for a museum Saturday and the ILA on Sunday, and back home on Monday so that going to be a lot of miles.
Just watched some footage of the weather in Southern Germany man what a devestation with all the flooding overthere.
Eventually that water has to come down so I expect that we also get some of that.
Jan-Arie wrote:
Good luck Douglas hope for some good photo's.
Will go to Germany on Thursday, Tigermeet on Friday, then to Berlin for a museum Saturday and the ILA on Sunday, and back home on Monday so that going to be a lot of miles.
Just watched some footage of the weather in Southern Germany man what a devestation with all the flooding overthere.
Eventually that water has to come down so I expect that we also get some of that.
Southern Germany waters run north, or do the storms? Just wondering.
Ray Swindle wrote:
I am thinking we are going to see some spectacular photos during the coming days. Douglas and Jan-Arie have me quite excited.
Ya, me too...Can't wait to see some planes and tigers !!!
Ray Swindle wrote:
Southern Germany waters run north, or do the storms? Just wondering.
There was a very rare event still happening at the moment.
The rains have a circulair motion and also in the higher elevation it dumped a lot of snow so freaky weather that is attributed to the climate change.
And we also called the low country's, so most of all the big rivers come true Holland so a lot of water is transported to the sea via our water system.
Not always without the danger of flooding.
Jan-Arie wrote:
There was a very rare event still happening at the moment.
The rains have a circulair motion and also in the higher elevation it dumped a lot of snow so freaky weather that is attributed to the climate change.
Haha! "freaky weather" has been a Texas thing since I was born over 70 years ago. In fact, in Texas our comment about weather is "if you don't like the weather, it will change in the next hour". Still true today. But I understand what you are saying. I was wondering about the weather patterns in northern Europe. Guess it is becoming like Texas, always changing.
Your last comment was what I was really wondering about...water flowing to the sea via Holland. Thank you for that Jan-Arie.
Ray Swindle wrote:
I am thinking we are going to see some spectacular photos during the coming days. Douglas and Jan-Arie have me quite excited.
Thanks, Ray!
A quick field report for Tuesday: we had a morning flight and an afternoon flight near a Danish Air Force base in southern Denmark, the weather was cloudy for the most part, in the morning we flew below the cloud deck, we had a Sea King, two F-35 that came real close, and an F-16. In the afternoon we had two different helicopters, two F-35 again, and this time a 2-seat armed F-16, we flew above the clouds in the afternoon. Rumored had it that one of the pilots in the 2-seat F-16 is a Ukraine pilot. It was a very good day for me to be able to shoot the F35s twice in such close range, I will be shooting pretty much the same jets this Thursday but the F-16 on Thursday will have the new paint scheme as it's the new Danish Air Force demo.
I heard about Tigermeet from J-A and the air to air organizer actually offered a shoot for the Tigermeet, but I didn't really pay much attention to it. From the crew on Tuesday's flight, they told me it's about 30 minutes drive from Flensburg, where I am currently staying. Since I didn't signed up for air ti air shoot for Wednesday, I will just drive there to watch it from the field outside the airport. It will be a real treat to see some European fighter jets like the Tornado and the Typhoon, I have never since one before.
Will be quite some time before I have time to work on the pictures, I am heading back to Iceland to meet up with my wife on Friday and flying back to Maryland on Thursday next week.
A quick field report for Tuesday: we had a morning flight and an afternoon flight near a Danish Air Force base in southern Denmark, the weather was cloudy for the most part, in the morning we flew below the cloud deck, we had a Sea King, two F-35 that came real close, and an F-16. In the afternoon we had two different helicopters, two F-35 again, and this time a 2-seat armed F-16, we flew above the clouds in the afternoon. Rumored had it that one of the pilots in the 2-seat F-16 is a Ukraine pilot. It was a very good day for me to be able to shoot the F35s twice in such close range, I will be shooting pretty much the same jets this Thursday but the F-16 on Thursday will have the new paint scheme as it's the new Danish Air Force demo.
I heard about Tigermeet from J-A and the air to air organizer actually offered a shoot for the Tigermeet, but I didn't really pay much attention to it. From the crew on Tuesday's flight, they told me it's about 30 minutes drive from Flensburg, where I am currently staying. Since I didn't signed up for air ti air shoot for Wednesday, I will just drive there to watch it from the field outside the airport. It will be a real treat to see some European fighter jets like the Tornado and the Typhoon, I have never since one before.
Will be quite some time before I have time to work on the pictures, I am heading back to Iceland to meet up with my wife on Friday and flying back to Maryland on Thursday next week.
Greetings from northern Germany.
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I would say I am jealous but that would be a sin for me. Instead I want to wish you the best time ever and great weather because I'm gonna love what you show us. Have fun too!
Canon is sure acting weird lately, weirder than usual. Still camera announcements have gone silent and all of a sudden they are going to announce a few new RF lenses and a new EOS Cinema camera, the C400. I'm sure it will have an RF mount, looks like the form factor is similar to the C70, probably priced in the teens. Anyway, the announcement is at 3 EDT today for anyone interested.
Yesterday was interesting, got a call from a new client in Atlanta who needed a significant groundbreaking captured in East Texas yesterday. The weather turned the event into a "mud breaking", left at 5am, drove through thunderstorms, adapted to the conditions, shot the mud event, and came home in Florida style driving rain. Good news is, we got great shots that are important to the client's marketing effort. I sent them to them last evening so they can do a press release blast today and everyone is happy. Occasionally I think about turning down event assignments, but then I do one and realize how valuable they are in building client relationships and finding new clients. The danger is the tendency to take these event assignments too causally, because you have shot a million of them, but you still need to be on your toes and figure out who the players are, making sure that you capture them in multiple groupings in creative ways. The first time you think that you can shoot something on auto pilot because you have done it so many times before, is the time you will embarrass yourself and disappoint a client.
The mudfest........................taken with the DJI Mavic in a six shot stitched panoramic.
Well the Canon big release is a 6K cinema camera with RF mount. The price is $8K, the resolution is not.........Seems like a nothing burger when Black Magic is producing a 12K cinema camera.Canon seems a little ADD these days. I'm greateful, in a way, they just saved me another eight grand.
anthonysemone wrote:
D-Day, the Sixth of June 1944
"Lest We Forget" (unk)
Hope you are their my brother!
This is one of my most favorite of quotes from Sir Wm. Gladstone: Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.
William E. Gladstone
This quote seems to be vanishing in today's world with today's mentality about maintaining Peace!
I know you have visited the cemeteries of this Memorial Day. Thank you!
We cannot forget what it takes to save PEACE!
S/F Marine!
RD
