Still here, but this is as close as I've gotten to flying things. Getting used to the new Nikon 500mm PF lens. I like it. A Lot! Cross posted from the Nikon forum.
Glad you caught one of those ugly buggers before they flew away
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Still here, but this is as close as I've gotten to flying things. Getting used to the new Nikon 500mm PF lens. I like it. A Lot! Cross posted from the Nikon forum.
Advanced adaptive airfoil control dynamics at work.
Not much of a shot, as I was looking elsewhere when he came out from behind the trees. During the few seconds I saw him he had no problems at all flying.
Photographed this G-IV in Salt Lake City this week, and now I'm Orlando, getting ready to photograph a Falcon 8X, that is coming in today from India for the annual NBAA Convention.
Hope everyone has a great remainder of the weekend.
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Wellllll...judging from the Air Force pictures that came across my facebook feed I can't wait to see what the people from here got at Alliance today. That F-35 generated the largest vapour cone I've ever seen.
I had a busy year, just got back from a trip to Vancouver, and before that I was in Budapest for my Brother's Wedding.
AFW 2018 was a bit of a challenge, lots of liquid sunshine. I was in Fort Worth from Wednesday on, came home after the show late this afternoon. While the climate disappointed, the comeraderie did quite the opposite. My good friend Larry Grace came in for the annual effort and as usual he worked tirelessly to take a tremendous number of things off of my plate. Larry has become indispensable at AFW, to me, to my clients, and to the show in general and I appreciate him more than he knows. Aside from what Larry has done for ISAP, he's one of those rare kinds of friends who always, always has your back. Another big treat for me this year was getting to spend Wednesday through Sunday with Jan Arie, long one of my favorite people in the world, we had lots of fun. I'm not going to steal his thunder, but buckle up because from what I've seen, he made the most of this show and hit a bunch out of the park. Saturday was cancelled entirely but instead of moping around we all hung out in the Hilton lobby and had a great time. Friday was a long and very wet day, and we were ready to head to the hotel and dinner, I figured no one was going to show for the dusk patrol and light painting exercise, wrong, a couple dozen intrepid shooters arrived and they were ready for anything. Larry, Jan-Arie, Chandler and myself obliged until about 9 o'clock. Lo and behold, out of the dark and drizzle that evening our old friend Jeremy Boyd showed up. Turns out Boydo winged his way in on a UPS flight to do a little Weekend Warrior service at The JRB and thought he'd come out and spend some time with old friends, yet another treat. I can't remember a time when I have enjoyed the warmth and company of old friends ,and new ones, as much I did over the past five days. Turns out, the crummy weather allowed us to spend relaxing time together that we wouldn't have had otherwise and I enjoyed every minute of it.
AFW 2018 was a bit of a challenge, lots of liquid sunshine. I was in Fort Worth from Wednesday on, came home after the show late this afternoon. While the climate disappointed, the comeraderie did quite the opposite. My good friend Larry Grace came in for the annual effort and as usual he worked tirelessly to take a tremendous number of things off of my plate. Larry has become indispensable at AFW, to me, to my clients, and to the show in general and I appreciate him more than he knows. Aside from what Larry has done for ISAP, he's one of those rare kinds of friends who always, always has your back. Another big treat for me this year was getting to spend Wednesday through Sunday with Jan Arie, long one of my favorite people in the world, we had lots of fun. I'm not going to steal his thunder, but buckle up because from what I've seen, he made the most of this show and hit a bunch out of the park. Saturday was cancelled entirely but instead of moping around we all hung out in the Hilton lobby and had a great time. Friday was a long and very wet day, and we were ready to head to the hotel and dinner, I figured no one was going to show for the dusk patrol and light painting exercise, wrong, a couple dozen intrepid shooters arrived and they were ready for anything. Larry, Jan-Arie, Chandler and myself obliged until about 9 o'clock. Lo and behold, out of the dark and drizzle that evening our old friend Jeremy Boyd showed up. Turns out Boydo winged his way in on a UPS flight to do a little Weekend Warrior service at The JRB and thought he'd come out and spend some time with old friends, yet another treat. I can't remember a time when I have enjoyed the warmth and company of old friends ,and new ones, as much I did over the past five days. Turns out, the crummy weather allowed us to spend relaxing time together that we wouldn't have had otherwise and I enjoyed every minute of it. ...Show more →
Yes this is one of those meetings that despite the weather i wont be forgetting any time soon.
You all have to wait untill i get home if i don't float away in the next couple of days 😂 as i don't have a computer with me only a tablet first i have to get some work done for Larry for the Isap magazine then i have to get my own car fixed so you get the drift.
The weather was challenging to say the least but to finaly have met Chandler and Jeremy that alone was worth the trip overhere and i have to thank Larry for driving me around and for all the things he and Jim provided for me during this week very much apriciated.
Well Jim, I was so busy at work last week I didn't have time for the pregame festivities, then Saturday allowed me to work in the garage at home...
I did come out Sunday for a while, left after the F-35 Heritage Flight portion. I talked to Larry for a bit, saw Jim and company out across the taxiway a few times, saw a bunch of familiar faces around the airfield, which, more and more, is the best part of airshows.
There were some interesting statics at this show, the flying was par for a marginal weather day, which is better than I thought we would have at the beginning of the weekend...blessed that anything flew.
Alliance always seems to have something worth talking about and this year it is the F-35 vapor fest. Very cool!
Looks like it's going to be cloudy and rainy here in The Lone Star for at least the next ten days, maybe a one day reprieve with partly cloudy in a week or so. That forecast gives me some time to catch up on clerical stuff and do a little marketing, but it sure doesn't help much with the couple dozen multi day assignments in my backlog, and with Fall screaming up at us there is a hard deadline for much of this as the leaves drop and the grass goes dormant. Oh well, I should be getting used to this because the past 41 years have been no different.
Something that I read this morning might be of interest to a lot of us here. I subscribe to a group called "Backblaze", they are a huge cloud based data storage company and provide very detailed stats on hard drive reliability. Today's newsletter was very interesting in that they talk about how they migrate out of different capacity drives and why. I'll post their reliability stats so you can see what drives are the most bulletproof. Spoiler alert, looks like the HGST12TB is a winner in the reliability category. Based upon their findings some months ago I am migrating to that drive as standard in all of my arrays. The 12TB is still a bit pricey, but when looked at through the prism of possible data loss, one just has to grit their teeth and update. Another interesting forecast from these folks is that hard drives will remain the major back up tool for the foreseeable future and several major manufacturers are saying that they'll be producing 40TB internal units within the next 48 months. Those will, of course, be insanely expensive for a while, but one has to believe that 12, 14, 16 and up drives will become more and more economical. SSD's are inching down, but are still in the ionosphere when you look at capacities that represent any sizable back up options, so spinning platters are going to be with us for quite a while.
I'm going to load five new 12TB HGST Gold Drives into the new OWC Thunderbay 5 enclosure that arrived last week and begin phasing out my older Drobo units. My total storage, including the new OWC unit is topping 1.2 Petabytes, a library that requires a considerable amount to attention to keep it organizationally fit.
