We got about 2-3 but it is bitter cold! I love the cold but I will wait to later in the week to get out for some photography. My longhorns were out this morning and the snow would have made a great photo BUT I forgot my camera when going into town.
Thanks!
Dan
Don't feel too bad Dan, you goober...
If I had my camera last week with me at one of the helicopter hangers I could have taken some nice pixs of a pristine Sikorsky S-64 ready for South Cali in the spring, good news tho is I am on the books for photos real soon during run ups and testing for the next few months.
Don't feel too bad Dan, you goober...
If I had my camera last week with me at one of the helicopter hangers I could have taken some nice pixs of a pristine Sikorsky S-64 ready for South Cali in the spring, good news tho is I am on the books for photos real soon during run ups and testing for the next few months.
Don't feel too bad Dan, you goober...
If I had my camera last week with me at one of the helicopter hangers I could have taken some nice pixs of a pristine Sikorsky S-64 ready for South Cali in the spring, good news tho is I am on the books for photos real soon during run ups and testing for the next few months.
Yeah 2 Apache gunships, "locked and loaded", headed to Baltimore for the Army Navy game past Saturday, flew at treetop level and I missed rushing out to grab a shot!
Dan
A sincere thank you to Wilbur and Orville for their efforts on this day in 1903! You have made our lives immeasurably richer by your inventive tenacity.
I have read many books chronicling the lives of Wilbur and Orville. Their achievements fascinate my envy of their ability to accomplish the miracle of manned flight given they were never trained as engineers or scientists. The tools they invented to learn the science/physics of flight such as their wind tunnel and to discover the properties required for an effective propeller and probably most important concept they called "wing warping" for a coordinated turn (ailerons). While there are anecdotes of people who claim to have beaten the Wrights to fly, none of them contributed more to the fundamentals of heavier than air controlled flight.
Just fyi for all the "winged aircraft" lovers here...if you have NOT seen the Military History Channels documentary on the P51 Mustang., try to "catch" it. A great documentary.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS from a old retired Air Force Pilot. The flag and quilt were from my last years veterans day Quilt Of Honor. I restored the P-40 Warhawk.
Harry Palmer
War Hawk Holidays.
NIKON Z 7_2Viltrox AF 33/1.4 Z lens33mmf/11.01/25s2000 ISO0.0 EV
Today was a full one, beginning with a ground breaking in North Texas, then on to downtown for the car collection/building shoot and wrapping up with a portrait of JIII and his family.
A "Ford", brought to you by Hasselblad............................
Kingfishphoto wrote:
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS from a old retired Air Force Pilot. The flag and quilt were from my last years veterans day Quilt Of Honor. I restored the P-40 Warhawk.
Harry Palmer
Thank you for your service Harry! The composition is very telling and VERY beautiful!
Happy Holidays to you and a great New Year!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
Thank you for your service Harry! The composition is very telling and VERY beautiful!
Happy Holidays to you and a great New Year!
Dan
Thanks Dan comment is much appreciated and i feel the same about your service. Have a great Christmas and New Years.
Harry
Kingfishphoto wrote:
Thanks Dan comment is much appreciated and i feel the same about your service. Have a great Christmas and New Years.
Harry
I was at Ft Huachuca in December 1967 for a few weeks. Best steak ever in Sierra Vista!
Home for Christmas Day then off to Nam day after...
Thanks again brother!
Dan
JWilsonphoto wrote:
My favorite for sure, but I think it goes everywhere in an enclosed trailer
yeah - given how special they are, not surprised. Reminds me of when I did a bicycle tour through Europe visiting relatives after graduating from high school. Had an uncle in Basel, Switzerland, who had a Porsche 928 in the garage. While he was in his office down the hill from his house giving people root canals, I snuck into the garage and sat in the driver's seat pretending to be on the autobahn
Man Gero, I hear you. If I had a nickel for every hour I spent at used car dealerships, sitting in Corvettes, I'd have a collection.One of my buddies would tell me that some dealership, somewhere in Springfield Illinois had a Vette on the lot, that's all it would take and I'd be on my Schwinn Stingray pedaling that way.That activity slowed considerably when I met Sheila, but not entirely............
I shot the family portraits last evening with the X2DII/35-100, and the R5II/85/1.2. Both of those cameras and lens combinations are just stellar. I don't completely trust the Blad yet, thus the back up, but they both performed beautifully. The X2DII provides you with a much better idea of what you are actually capturing with the huge high def screen, but the R5II does a good job too.
I told James that he could go shoot with the Hasselblad to his heart's content if he cooperated for the family photo shoot.... he did..................
In 1965 my neighbor's oldest son owned a 1954 Corvette. He was in his senior year at the University of Houston and planning to go into the US Navy to be a pilot. He was selling the Corvette to buy a brand new 64 1/2 Mustang. He wanted $800 for the '54. I begged my step father to loan me the money so I could drive it when I got my license. This was when I decided my step father didn't like me, he said "no". I did get several fun rides in the '54 and the '64 1/2. He was a really nice guy. That was the closest I ever got to buying a Corvette.
I ended up buying a '55 Chevy 4 door in 1966. With the exception of the power train it was a junker. Hole in the passenger floor board, hole in the rear passenger door that was patched with a 12" x 12" piece of tin held in place by plastic resin. Horn didn't work so I found an Ohh-Gahh horn from a buddy for about $5 I installed to pass the state inspection. Sold it to a friend in high school who told me a few years ago how good the mechanics were because he kept it for a long time until he got his transport business going after high school. Now, I'm driving a 2001 Tundra with over 200k miles that doesn't have a phone charging port. I guess I am driven to own the old stuff.
