Happy Thanksgiving Guys! Sheila had me peeling apples at 5 this morning, and then I headed out to my Phenom assignment at Love Field. We have our first Thanksgiving round this afternoon at 5, hope I can stay awake.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Happy Thanksgiving Guys! Sheila had me peeling apples at 5 this morning, and then I headed out to my Phenom assignment at Love Field. We have our first Thanksgiving round this afternoon at 5, hope I can stay awake.
And a Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family Jim and everyone else on here as well.
Stay safe, Have fun, Eat lots, Enjoy life, Relax...And not necessarily in that order.
Thanks Bill, same to you! I found myself in a spot yesterday where I should have taken my own panning advice.............problem was, I had to shoot through a chain link fence and when I panned you would see the links a little. I now have great contacts for this spot and I'll be able to shoot from their ramp, sans fencing. The Phenom 300E was a marathon yesterday, the shoot was scheduled around a windshield replacement, so there was a lot of coordination involved. The technicians could not have been more accommodating, we both got our work done by the end of the day, and some great new relationships were formed. A little trivia, the Phenom 300 E has a two pice windshield, the heating element in the left panel failed, replacement part for that is an eye watering $81,000, labor not included. Even these smaller biz jets are big boy's toys.
My client/friend, who owns the Phenom specs some of the most beautiful paint schemes.......... he's had four of them, each one prettier than the one before. Someone offered him more than he could turn down for this onei, 66 hours on it. He ordered a new one and accepted the offer.
Dang buildings Jim, .
Nice work tho...And I have always loved the Phenom 300, got to go in a few last year to look at dash and interior.
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Love the Black & Silver one above.
Jim, the lighting on both jets was real nice. I don't mind the buildings behind the Phenom but that orange barrier looks a bit distracting. I purposely bought my Chevy Avalanche, which has those hard covers over the bed, to be able stand on to shoot over fences.
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Jeff
Hi Dan, busy is good Buddy! Hope you guys are having a great Thanksgiving! Due to circumstances (obviously out of my control), the Christmas decorating marathon began a few days ago. Sheila has a birthday gathering for some friends this Tuesday so my marching orders were to gave the house decorated for Thanksgiving (yesterday for us), then immediately transition to Christmas. This, as you know, is normally a killer, but with my shooting schedule and several additional emergency assignments like the Phenom yesterday and a couple of significant construction events that needed to be documented, I have not been much fun to be around. I'm on the last couple of tubs so I'm beginning to feel some relief in the near future. Small price to pay given the freedom I have the rest of the year, but it's still a bit of a beating while it's going on.
I see some pretty great potential for this shooting vantage point. I look forward to seeing what I can capture at dusk and dawn now that I have access.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American FM friends! Many many things to be thankful for this year.....
Some shots from Monday. Interesting story I read, turkey was almost chosen as our national bird instead of bald eagle because Theodore Roosevelt didn't like the habits of bald eagles stealing preys from other eagles.
Yesterday, for the first time ever, I shot a jet inside and out handheld. The R5II, in combination with the RF24-105Z made it possible, the stabilization in that lens is just remarkable.
The gentleman in the cockpit of the Phenom is a very good friend/client who lives in East Texas. Years ago Pilot Journal called me to ask if I would shoot an article on the newly released Beechcraft G36 Bonanza for them. My friend had just taken delivery of one of the first ones and he said , "Come on down, the airplane is yours!" so we did the article. During the shoot my Buddy smiled and said, "Doesn't get a lot better than this Jim..........." Well, in retrospect, obviously it does..................
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I see some pretty great potential for this shooting vantage point. I look forward to seeing what I can capture at dusk and dawn now that I have access.
Jim,
Around the prop and in front of the windshield of this 2000 PILATUS PC12-45 / N917WW there is some banding and cross hatch. Any idea what is cause that optical effect? Rest of the photo appears silky smooth and normal.
Douglas,
As always your photography excels! Those eagles are beautiful. And I do remember the story that the Turkey was almost our national or so it would seem.....................
The story about Benjamin Franklin wanting the National Bird to be a turkey is just a myth. This false story began due to a letter Franklin wrote to his daughter criticizing the original eagle design for the Great Seal, saying that it looked more like a turkey. In the letter, Franklin wrote that the “Bald Eagle...is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly…[he] is too lazy to fish for himself.”
About the turkey, Franklin wrote that in comparison to the bald eagle, the turkey is “a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America...He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.” So, although Benjamin Franklin defended the honor of the turkey against the bald eagle, he did not propose it become one of America’s most important symbols.
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