Amazing photo Steve.
I was stuck in North Texas for the solar event.
I have never photographed the sun until this week, I bought a bit of solar filter film from Thousand Oaks Optical and fabricated my own cardboard filter holder to fit the 100-400L
I was happy enough with the results. These are straight out of the camera with @ 100% crop. ( that sun thing is a long way's off )
Now...7 years from now, April 2024, the totality center line will be 40 miles from the house!
stevez wrote:
I swore I wasn't going to take any eclipse photos, that I would for once in my life just be fully present, to experience the majesty and awe engendered by such an amazing, once in a lifetime event.
Well, anyone who knows me can guess know how _that_ went...
-- Zane Adams wrote:
Amazing photo Steve.
I was stuck in North Texas for the solar event.
I have never photographed the sun until this week, I bought a bit of solar filter film from Thousand Oaks Optical and fabricated my own cardboard filter holder to fit the 100-400L
I was happy enough with the results. These are straight out of the camera with @ 100% crop. ( that sun thing is a long way's off )
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Top O' the Class guys!
Here in Central Florida we were going to get a good slice of the moon but instead had a total eclipse of our usual summer clouds --- so doubly appreciate your fine shooting.
We had 80% coverage here in Cleveland with frequent high cirrus, so my shots aren't as sharp as I had hoped. But the next one in 2024 we'll have totality here. Gee, wonder how much those cameras will be different than what we just used? My composite is here: eclipse from Cleveland
I have to say that I have mixed feelings about this whole wing walking deal. My feeling about doing a take off with the ladies up on the wing is very clear - it's too dangerous by half! I know they always come down into the front cockpit for landing - maybe they can't get up onto the wing whilst in flight due to slip stream?
Oh BTW, to my point the other evening, we are now tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus, which makes a lot of sense cuz he was the first Hispanic immigrant. But stuff doesn't have to make sense now as long as it lines up with the agenda. What's next?
Ever since seeing Jane Wicker's crash in front of me in Dayton my stomach tightens every time I see an act like this. It may not be any more dangerous than any other low altitude display, but it still gets me.
Can't imagine that Erich, that would definitely cinch it for me. JR and I were sitting on the grass on the flight line at OSH waiting for the show to begin one year. They were running a little late and the wind had shifted for a handful of arrivals that they were trying to get in at the last minute. That turned into a quartering tailwind off the lake, pushing the arrivals toward the show line. Everyone seemed to deal with it ok until a Dad and his young son tried to rush the base to final turn in a Mini-Mustang. They were caught unaware by the quartering push and in trying to tighten up to avoid the crowd line, he tightened too much. The Mustang isn't a forgiving airfoil anyway, but the wing just let go about 200' in the air. All of a sudden a base to final turn became a half snap to inverted, the airplane hit, slid to a stop and burst into that 100LL kind of heat wave outlined by orange flame. I jumped up, turned JR's face into my chest and walked him back toward Aero Shell Square, fighting tears and an urge to heave. He knew at 5 that what we saw wasn't survivable, he just kept his head buried in my shoulder as I carried him away.
You could have had my ticket and logbooks for a nickel for a couple of days, but I had a biplane half done and a 1939 J-3 that beckoned, so you buck up, learn what you can and move on. Different thing in many ways, you shouldn't have to learn not to walk on the wing of an aircraft in flight, sheesh!
Exactly Erich, and fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be, most of us have the ability to compartmentalize, believe we can reduce the risk to a reasonable level, and we proceed. Truthfully, we wouldn't come out from under our beds these days if we didn't have that spark.
I remember our good friend Johnny Rutherford at Charlie Hillard's funeral service, he ended the eulogy with, "Sad as this loss is to all of us who loved him, Charlie believed, as do I, that if you don't climb out to the edge occasionally, and peer over, life really isn't worth living......". We all silently nodded. A week before that Charlie and I were having a couple of great steaks in Phoenix and he raised his fork, looked at the chunk of prime filet on it, looked at me and said, "Jimbo, don't ever settle for hamburger in life, go for the steak........", I'll never forget it.
And, I know I'll see Charlie again because he died with The Lord's Prayer in his flight suit pocket and Jesus Christ in his heart. Something to consider in this fragile existence of ours.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Oh BTW, to my point the other evening, we are now tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus, which makes a lot of sense cuz he was the first Hispanic immigrant.
I'm looking at Canon's 16-35 for my U/W case. The Ikelite only accepts the f/4 version, not the 2.8. The F/4 reviews are pretty glowing, but the 2.8 are as well. Any experience with either? I had the Series I 2.8 and it was good, a little vignetting and some mild distortion.
I'm thinking of going Ikelite with the f/4 and an Ikelite strobe or two just to cut my teeth, then if I get serious about it I'll go Seacam with the 2.8 and the 8-15. Gracie can use the Ikelite in that scenario.
I was about to pull the trigger today but one of my old Drobo 5D's went toes up so I had B&H send me the newest version and 5 Iron Wolf 10TB drives. Rosanna Danna Danna was correct, "it's always something!"
Ernie Aubert wrote:
I have the f4, and I find it to be every bit as excellent as its reputation. I highly recommend it, as so many others have done.
Same here.
Unless the extra stop is important to you, I suggest you go for the f/4.0
For my own use a state of the art IS is more valuable than an extra stop, to each his own
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