The All American Boy Bill!
Suzanne and I had a very, VERY close friend like this guy. He was KIA in Vietnam 1969-Operation Dewey Canyon-USMC 2LT- Navy Cross. "Thee-All American Boy"..Loved by all, all American athlete, member of the local highschool band..prankster and most of all a friend!
Thanks for a "shot" of Patriotism! Seems very lacking around here.
Dan
Douglas L wrote:
Thank you all gentlemen! Great shots from you all!
I am just starting to go through the Sanicole show files. The lighting was really tough even when it stopped raining.
Here is the Greek F-4 flying in rain.
Hi Doug,
challenging lighting conditions indeed, but when I look at this, it has a film quality to it which seems appropriate for an aircraft of that pedigree and age, almost as if you had taken this at an airshow in the 80s-90s with a vintage camera.
Bill Gass wrote:
Hang in there Dan and good but sad story...Died to save all our asses.
Here's some Patriotism for ya buddy!
Putting the crew in front of the F-15 really shows what a big plane the F-15 is. Lover the sunset!
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gerov wrote:
Hi Doug,
challenging lighting conditions indeed, but when I look at this, it has a film quality to it which seems appropriate for an aircraft of that pedigree and age, almost as if you had taken this at an airshow in the 80s-90s with a vintage camera.
Well done,
Gero
Thank you very much, Gero! Noise reduction was aggressively applied to those images, the origianl raw files were under exposed by quite a bit, even at those ISO levels.
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Ray Swindle wrote:
^^^
OK Douglas, I loved the street shots above...
But with the F-4 you have my attention!
Thank you Ray! The F-4 was the main reason I traveled to Belgium. I think the last time I saw one flying was 1991 or 1992, and this trip may very well be the last time I saw one flying.
Here are a few more from Saturday's "sunset" show, which was cold and wet. I don't know which is worse, grey sky vs cloudless blue sky. I do think grey sky can make some dramatic looks, at the expense of high ISO, of course.
cs3is wrote:
Then, as dark sets in, a 1956 de Havilland Chipmunk from GhostWriter Airshows, originally developed as a trainer for the Royal Canadian Air Force, launched a pyrotechnic display.
I think I forgot to adjust the SS. All at 1/10 sec
Fantastic, cs3is! That's some panning! I got to try the London show one of these days.
Czech Air Force's Saab JAS-39 Gripen, check out the ISO.
Bill Gass wrote:
Hang in there Dan and good but sad story...Died to save all our asses.
Here's some Patriotism for ya buddy!
Absolutely stunning photography Bill!
I dreamed of being a pilot in my youth but "life" got in the way.
The call sign of the jet brings to mind a great story from my daze in SE Asia. There was a story going around ,both for the North Vietnamese and South ARVN troops, of a spec ops soldier called "The Sandman". A deadly assassin that knew no fear even death. A book was written about the "character" based on some truth and some fiction.
"Hanoi Hanna" would call him out on her nightly propaganda shows and she would make a habit of raising the "bounty" on this soldier's head on every broadcast.
But then again any "Special Ops" soldier had a bounty on their heads also.
"Double H" had a news source that was unequaled for an enemy propagandist. If there was an "operation" that rained hell on the NVA army, she would name each team member, where they lived, their family members and always played the "Jody" line.
Don't even think "Tokyo Rose" could do that.
FYI.."Jody" is a nemesis that Drill Instructors used while training soldiers. He was also a part of the "marching cadence" tunes DI's used to motivate us. He was a fictional or generic person, typically a man, who remains at home and takes advantage of a service member's absence to become involved with their spouse or girlfriend.
I had neither at the time so I laughed.
Just some military folklore!
Again THANKS for a boost of patriotism!
Dan
Douglas L wrote:
Putting the crew in front of the F-15 really shows what a big plane the F-15 is. Lover the sunset!
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Thank you very much, Gero! Noise reduction was aggressively applied to those images, the origianl raw files were under exposed by quite a bit, even at those ISO levels.
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Thank you Ray! The F-4 was the main reason I traveled to Belgium. I think the last time I saw one flying was 1991 or 1992, and this trip may very well be the last time I saw one flying.
Here are a few more from Saturday's "sunset" show, which was cold and wet. I don't know which is worse, grey sky vs cloudless blue sky. I do think grey sky can make some dramatic looks, at the expense of high ISO, of course....Show more →
Just outstanding photography here Douglas!
The F4 was my fast CAS, close air support, for my 2 years in SE Asia. Most came out of Udorn or Ubon Thailand since my area of operations was in the western part of northern S. Vietnam on the Laotion border.
Your images gave me goose bumps!
Last night on the Military History channel they were discussing the need for a fighter jet to replace the F4 after Vietnam..That was the F15.
The main complaint about the plane was its size. But its avionics and its computer guided weapons systems was unequalled.
The MIG tried to duplicate it but failed and failed miserably thank goodness!
Douglas L wrote:
Fantastic, cs3is! That's some panning! I got to try the London show one of these days.
Czech Air Force's Saab JAS-39 Gripen, check out the ISO.
These are looking good for 128k. The conditions certainly look very challenging.
I watched a video posted by some Marc C on YouTube. They had an elaborate pyrotechnic show on display. Not sure if you got chance to capture that.
On that very subject, I picked Chandler up at 5:00 this morning for a 777 test flight shoot and this evening James and I went to the Plano Balloon Festival. I used to shoot for that event decades ago and knew all the players, but tonite we just went as behind the fence line spectators. JIII had. great time and was so excited to shoot the balloon glow.............. I was just excited to watch him experience the whole thing.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
On that very subject, I picked Chandler up at 5:00 this morning for a 777 test flight shoot and this evening James and I went to the Plano Balloon Festival. I used to shoot for that event decades ago and knew all the players, but tonite we just went as behind the fence line spectators. JIII had. great time and was so excited to shoot the balloon glow.............. I was just excited to watch him experience the whole thing.
One of my "bucket list" items was the hot air balloon festival in New Mexico. This would have done fine also!
Life got in the way..Wont make it!
Dan
This is a drop in the bucket compared to ABQ, but James loved it. We had to walk a couple of miles each way and had to deal with the masses, made me realize just how spoiled Ihave become🤣
. I don't know which is worse, grey sky vs cloudless blue sky. I do think grey sky can make some dramatic looks, at the expense of high ISO, of course.
