This is hot off the press, we've been working on it for months and you're amongst the first to know.
We haven't had a full blown symposium for a while and Tucson is a wondereful place in the Spring. I've blocked out the week and I'm most likely making several presentations during the event, so I will be there. See what your calendars and budgets look like, and consider it, should be lots of fun.
johnahill wrote:
Great story Jeff, is that an Arca D4 head there?
Let us know how that piece of equipment goes, it's high on my wish list but I'm coping with a cheap Chinese copy at the moment.
Yes sir, it's the D4. A terrific geared pan/tilt head that I am also going to be acquiring. Fun, fun, fun
We haven't had a full blown symposium for a while and Tucson is a wondereful place in the Spring. I've blocked out the week and I'm most likely making several presentations during the event, so I will be there. See what your calendars and budgets look like, and consider it, should be lots of fun.
Well holy smokes Jim. I think I need to rejoin ISAP. Especially if Larry will let me bring my 4x5 to the symposium
Hopefully, you'll let me buy you dinner one evening during the week.
EDIT for TOPP: A platinum and palladium print made from a digital negative. I took this photo last year at the Pima Air & Space Museum before they finished the restoration of the Mystere.
That would be wonderful, but I'll buy, or we'll do it twice and alternate And yes, you have blanket approval to schlepp your large format anywhere you'd like. As a matter of fact, you and I should sneak out to The Seguaro National Forest one evening and shoot AZ landscape in that incredible light you have.
I think you'd find that ISAP is changing, and in a positive way. We, as you so very well know, got handed a real challenge when the board positions were dumped in our laps. Finally, we're making so palatable progress and I hope it continues. The board is to be commended for it's diligence in the face of pretty hopeless, not me really, because I have tried to escape numerous times, Larry Grace just wouldn't let me We have some new blood, good ideas, and I see an organization that can have the ability to mentor, in a number of areas.
I look forward to really enjoying this symposium with everyone. The last one I had fun at, truthfully, was Red Flag at Nellis. There was a guy there from Austin who was shooting prosumer level gear, said he could never see himself spending serious money on some of that ridiculous camera gear. He was just there to hang out and have fun, no serious aspirations..................Watson, yeah that was his name............
We haven't had a full blown symposium for a while and Tucson is a wondereful place in the Spring. I've blocked out the week and I'm most likely making several presentations during the event, so I will be there. See what your calendars and budgets look like, and consider it, should be lots of fun.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Still haven't seen a list of which B-25s are coming in Monday, but other than Erich, who else is coming Monday/Tuesday?
Other than saying that 17 aircraft will be there, there's no listing. They did add more info about the B-1B flyby.
Plans call for the B-1 flyover to take place on April 18 at approximately 3:15 p.m. at the conclusion of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders’ memorial service in the museum’s Memorial Park (weather dependent). The flyover will offer visitors a unique opportunity to witness the speed and power of two variable-sweep wing supersonic bombers as they fly by at a speed of 0.9 Mach and then ascend into an unrestricted climb.
I hope they do more than one pass. Are you going to be at the static display on Monday? I'm planning on going, then on Tuesday find a good spot to stake out for the flyby's. Any ideas?
I was going through some "old" photos this morning, sharing them with a special needs friend of mine who just LOVES airplanes. I truly have never seen someone who loves them as much as she does. She can spend 8 hours out at DFW each day, if her parents would let her.
Anyway, I shared this one with her. First day of service from QANTAS into DFW. Hard to believe that was six years ago. I even had a chance to talk to John Travolta for a brief minute or two.
After much anticipation, some time invested trying to network with folks to figure times and places and burning a lunch hour at the airport ( not that any of that is unusual ) The Patrouille de France team made their appearance in Fort Worth yesterday.
They were to do a flyover of the Trescal office in Irving ( didn't happen) They were supposed to bring 10 jets ( didn't happen) They were supposed to bring the A400M ( didn't happen.
And we had low grey skies.
Weather and maintenance problems being what they are.
They arrived at NAS Fort Worth with 8 jets, in two pairs and a four ship....and left for Santa Fe, NM late in the afternoon.
Disappointing after the arrival and flyover images we had built in our minds...but we got to see something different!
We haven't had a full blown symposium for a while and Tucson is a wonderful place in the Spring. I've blocked out the week and I'm most likely making several presentations during the event, so I will be there. See what your calendars and budgets look like, and consider it, should be lots of fun.
That I would like but I have to see the doc about that also I would like to see hawgsmoke but for that there is still no date.
And I have to see how my mothers health develops she was a couple of days in the hospital with a thrombosis in the right leg and a double pulmonary embolism and something in the chest if i say it correct that test result will come in next Tuesday but the doc informed me and my sister that it didn't look good if not then that will have my priority.
And have to see what the airlines are going to do about bringing laptops camera gear etc on board as hand luggage..
After much gnashing of teeth yesterday, the French redeemed themselves a bit by bringing parts to Fort Worth for the broken jet...in this beast!
Funk funky....
Glenn, do you mind if I ask what altitude you and that jet were flying? And what focal length you were using? I'm guessing you were probably not more than 1500 AGL at the most... makes me wonder what the people on the ground were thinking!
