Here is one shot from our recent visit to Vancouver Island last week. This was from the sixth floor balcony/deck area of our hotel. I could have stayed up there all day long.
Years ago, I flew in a Twin Otter float plane from Vancouver Island over to Vancouver, and I sat in the back of the plane. Quite a site to see all this water spraying right at you from the outside and then WHOOSH, up in the air you go.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Airplanes a great, but how about something fresh from The Master's Hand.................
A future "1st seater" Jim? Beautiful!!!
The Blue Angels are on the flight path(return) over my house to Annapolis for USNA graduation. Beautiful sight! Chills..
Sure wish we had those type of 'chutes when I was combat airborne!
AS always..Great Forum, great post, great photographers.....
Am still wearing your original Jim Wilson Photography white t-shirt some 10 years old or greater!!!
Hi Dan! We'll have to see how JRW III's tastes run, hopefully he'll be a dyed in the wool aviator/photographer. Yes, PM me your size and I'll send you a Wilson Air Wing version.
Under the heading of "If you build it, they will come................", this is a new Baylor Sports Medicine and Surgery Center at The Star. Not surprisingly, Jerry's "The Star" has become the go to hot spot for everything from office space, to restaurants and recreation, it's the North anchor of "The Five Billion Dollar Mile".
The sharp eyes here will notice the blurred arm of an OR nurse in the distant office. They were open and had a lot going on, I need to scrutinize my frame choices more closely because there are going to be a number of those. As you all know, this profession takes patience, among other things. I sent a day shooting this complex, cleaning up and styling each perspective. That evening I got an email from the office director informing me that their art work had come in and was being installed, of course that made a huge difference in the imagery, so, back I went yesterday to do it all over again.
Been working around the yard since early this morning, found a really ingenious way to get 22 year old Holly bush roots out of our front beds. I have been digging on those root balls for about a week on and off, but the last one was really stubborn. I woke up yesterday morning with what I thought might be a solution, all I needed was a Landcruiser, a 1" x 18" drill bit, two 1/2" x 12" eye bolt, four wide area washers, a couple of nuts and twelve feet of logging chain. What would have taken me another couple of days of digging popped out of the ground like it was growing in sand.
So, I've been needing to scout a big project from the air and we had a cold front come through this morning, dropping the winds to 15 and the temp to 100 +-, seemed like a perfect afternoon for a Cub flight and a crosswind landing refresher.
BTW, if anyone has a few extra bucks lying around for an investment, I got in on the ground floor of a second hangar complex just like ours, in fact it will be The CCHOA II complex at KTKI. Kind of a perfect storm at McKinney, no hangar space, the city has spent all it can on the airport with a new corporate hangar (already booked full) and a new FBO, so there is no city competition for hangar space. We have 138 aircraft on what has been an eternal wait list. The new complex will have 15 hangars like HQ and five like the kid's hangar 17. I sold six of the hangars before it was announced and bought another for us, completion estimated mid-2020. I haven't owned a hangar at McKinney that hasn't doubled in three years, the current ones have tripled. The tax law revision has a bunch of folks buying aircraft and a bunch more moving into turbo props, jets, and larger jets and it shows no sign of winding down. McKinney is in the perfect location to grow like crazy.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Been working around the yard since early this morning, found a really ingenious way to get 22 year old Holly bush roots out of our front beds. I have been digging on those root balls for about a week on and off, but the last one was really stubborn. I woke up yesterday morning with what I thought might be a solution, all I needed was a Landcruiser, a 1" x 18" drill bit, two 1/2" x 12" eye bolt, four wide area washers, a couple of nuts and twelve feet of logging chain. What would have taken me another couple of days of digging popped out of the ground like it was growing in sand.
So, I've been needing to scout a big project from the air and we had a cold front come through this morning, dropping the winds to 15 and the temp to 100 +-, seemed like a perfect afternoon for a Cub flight and a crosswind landing refresher....Show more →
Do you have to keep a log for when you do a refresher like the crosswind landings?
No, you are really only required to log time if you are working toward another rating I believe. I do log all of my flights typically and make a note here and there if the flight included something unusual, like when JR and I brought the Cub home from the factory and winds at TKI were 35-45 out of 270 (landing RWY 17!!!) All kinds of things to note for that flight I note when the Grands are with me just so I can look back ....uh.......when I'm old.................?
I've always considered myself an eternal apprentice, there's always new things to learn, and I don't think I'll ever feel like I've conquered photography!
I therefore decided to have a look back at some of my older shots recently and re-work them using the knowledge I've gained since taking them & the current software technology available. It's been an interesting exercise.
This was taken in 2007. Eurofighter Typhoon of 3 Squadron at RAF Valley.
Jim, congratulations on your newest family member. I was thinking about you the other day, on my way back from the UK where I was for nearly three weeks in May... our route takes us into Austin on the east of the DFW area, and we often get a nice view of McKinney like this one :-)
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Beautiful!!!
I note when the Grands are with me just so I can look back ....uh.......when I'm old.................
