Just back from a week in northern New Mexico....my happy place.
Cool, dry mountain air mixed with fine views and good company.....Ahhh...
I was able to spend one day on the NRA Whittington Center ranges near Raton, NM, trying to tame the wind and a 100 year old rifle at 500+ yards. Challenge accepted with partial success.
Looks like Apple just announced my next display and a return to a "real" MacPro. Sure glad I blinked and didn't order that $14,000 iMac Pro! Loaded this new MacPro will certainly run more than that, but I think it's the last Apple I'll need (desktop version) . They have made it upgradable so it should last a good while. If you watch the announcement you will notice a decided push back when they announced the display pricing, right at the point where they drop the bomb that the stand is a grand. They brushed over it quickly, but it was definitely a flatline in the enthusiasm.
All that being said, the MacPro with that display will be a dream machine, especially for cinema production.
Hi Nick! Funny what a photograph can bring back to one's memory. Looking at your image I can insatnatlky smell the oil/100LL mix wafting by me as I pull the covers and the clean kit bottle. The anticipation, the adrenaline, it's all there in that one vignette.............wonderful!
Hope you are back to your typical 110%. Seems your neck of the woods has a little problem with hotels at the moment, as in dozens of the are trying to regroup after the 15 tornados swept through . Saw one on I75 just south of town that appears to have had a direct hit, looks like Beirut after the shelling. Most of the Marriotts are shut down trying to regroup, had to go to my Marriott insider to pull a few strings.
Jim, what are you using for your visual display? On my Mavic Pro, I'm using my iPadPro2, and even with the Thor cover, given my eyesight limitations, I'm having a heck of hard time "seeing where I'm going." Would you recommend "Crystal Sky?" Or....?
I got totally feed up with myself. I have had to just put up with not doing stuff for so long now. So, last Monday I paid my first visit to our local airfield. Now back in the day it was a military field mainly navy mostly called HMS Daedalus. The base closed many years ago. In recent years commercial development has taken place and is continuing. Air operations have recently increased the local SAR helicopters have been joined with increasing GA activity and some commercial aviation too. Last year they opened a cafe and public viewing area next to the referbished control tower.
So what might I find on my first visit to the newly renamed Daedalus Solent Airport?
Well......
Was not expecting that at all! Time went by and I shot everything that moved. Mainly GA including the PA28s from the local flying school. By and by this chap came out to give the T6 a pre-flight.
He was joined by another who looked vaguely familiar.
I was wondering what they where up too or waiting for. Then this arrived.
Then the penny dropped. The T6 was a photo ship and the back seat of the Spitfire was about to be occupied by a very special gent.
So question how do you get a 96 year old into the back seat of a Spitfire? Answer slowly and carefully.
. and with a film crew in attendance.
Ready to go.
Sqn Ldr Alan Frost
.. who apparently flew on D-day wearing his PJs well it was an early start!
As if all that was not enough, whilst this was all going on, I was approached by the best looking young lady Ive seen in years. Apparently she had been flying one of the PA28s, had just done her first solo, and did I have any pictures I could email to her? Fortunately yes!
Hi Jim, That one hotel by 75 is on the northern end of town. There was another on the other side of 75, one of those "bedbugs are complementary" kind, that also got hit. Did you happen to get a shot of last night's sunset
I'm guessing the rest of the hotels are full of FEMA and pole dancers...
(of the utility pole dancer kind)
I have seen the sights from 75, and from another street through a section of town. I return to work on Saturday, so it'll be full steam ahead in that department, and picking up what I can on the second job, too. The sections of town that got hit the hardest are the lower income sections mostly. Beavercreek is where I work, and I've not ventured over there yet, trying to stay out of the way of everyone while they work on salvaging what they can without the lookie-loos. If I had been hit, I'd probably be sleeping in my car for the foreseeable future. Good thing I keep a sleeping bag and pillows in there.
Spent the day in Cincinnati at a museum down there.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Dear Laura,
Hope you are back to your typical 110%. Seems your neck of the woods has a little problem with hotels at the moment, as in dozens of the are trying to regroup after the 15 tornados swept through . Saw one on I75 just south of town that appears to have had a direct hit, looks like Beirut after the shelling. Most of the Marriotts are shut down trying to regroup, had to go to my Marriott insider to pull a few strings.
Had also wandered up to the Armstrong museum to beat the crowd next month, wanted to capture the lights being on. Had hoped for puffy clouds around it too, but those dissipated rather quickly. Heading to Columbus in a few minutes to meet up with two of my kids, and my nephew and his wife and kids who are visiting from Massachusetts.
Last year cleaning out my parents' house, we came across this:
I can read accounts and watch the movies, but handling this crumbling piece of newsprint is an emotional experience. It was there, and my grandmother and my Mom would have held and read this when the outcome of the invasion was far from certain.
And a reminder of how much was going on all over the world, the big news from the day before was the liberation of Rome.
Lovely outing for your first day back at it. Aggravating for sure, when you can't/shouldn't be doing something you've done all along. Well done on the patience!
nickjohnson wrote:
I got totally feed up with myself. I have had to just put up with not doing stuff for so long now. So, last Monday I paid my first visit to our local airfield. Now back in the day it was a military field mainly navy mostly called HMS Daedalus. The base closed many years ago. In recent years commercial development has taken place and is continuing. Air operations have recently increased the local SAR helicopters have been joined with increasing GA activity and some commercial aviation too. Last year they opened a cafe and public viewing area next to the referbished control tower.
So what might I find on my first visit to the newly renamed Daedalus Solent Airport?
Was not expecting that at all! Time went by and I shot everything that moved. Mainly GA including the PA28s from the local flying school. By and by this chap came out to give the T6 a pre-flight.
As if all that was not enough, whilst this was all going on, I was approached by the best looking young lady Ive seen in years. Apparently she had been flying one of the PA28s, had just done her first solo, and did I have any pictures I could email to her? Fortunately yes!
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