I highly suggest that you do not attempt to drive down The Cape then, if two lanes of traffic are going to drive you mad.. The Super 2 is even more frustrating.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I don't anticipate much sympathy, but I rolled in late last night from a five day gig in The Hamptons and I'm beat. Today is a regroup and catch up, then Chandler and I are off to do our annual Fort Worth Alliance Air Show early Thursday morning. We'll be over there for non-stop bop until Sunday evening.
I flew in and out of LaGuardia and was anticipating a real mess, similar to the one Chili and I endured going through Newark last month. You just never know, yes LaGuardia is in the process of completely rebuilding the airport, while operations remain in full swing, but they seem to have their ducks in a row. Rebuilding airports that are that old, combined with crazy air and road traffic flow has to be a logistical nightmare. Newark and LaGuardia currently look like Beirut during the siege, but LaGuardia somehow has figured out a way to minimize the torture, Newark, well not so much. I've rented hundreds upon hundreds of vehicles over the years, at just about every airport in the country, but I gotta say the folks at the LaGuardia Hertz operation are the warmest, most efficient group of people I've had the pleasure of working with in a long, long time. Their cars were ridiculously expensive for some reason, but the service kind of took the sting out of that.
The Hamptons, well this old Texan is very happy to be back in The Lone Star. Sure, the ocean is beautiful and some of the homes are incredible, but fighting two lane roads for hours while one creeps along at a snail's pace is just one of a number of inconveniences involved. I know there are people who are into "rustic" and I heard the term "quaint" tossed about frequently, but man, if I know there's a new, clean Marriott Courtyard, or Delta Hotel waiting for me at the end of a brutal day, I'm fine.............and there is no such thing where I was. So five days in "The Hamptons" may sound "charming"..................................Show more →
Can't imagine I did a week long shoot for Cape Air a few year sago but it was great, Cessna 402 out of Logan 500' off the water to their base. I shot there for a few days then they just told me to fly their entire network as the light favored it and shoot "A Day In The Life" kind of stuff. When I was done I hopped on another 402, flew 500' over the ocean back to Logan and I was on my way home to DFW, perfection.
I think it was a combination of things, I can appreciate historic, I admire vintage, just not into dilapidated and the fact that one had better bring whatever one needs with them because most anything is at least 2 hours in your rear view mirror if you happen to have something break or run out. Somebody loves it out there though because I stopped and stared at a realtor's window....dilapidated goes for just under $1M and prices rise precipitously from there. I discovered that the whole area, Long Island included is on septic systems, no sewer system, found that very interesting. Probably why no major hotel has any interest in fighting the environmental and historic district boards trying to build something new.
Oh, and I picked up the tab for lunch in Montauk one afternoon, four burgers, Cokes and fries........$140 bucks. I'll never again look at "FIVE GUYS" as "pricey" . All in all it was interesting and the trip was a photographic/cinematic success, but I'm not anxious to repeat it sans helicopter anytime soon. Although the actual coast line was beautiful.............
My bride and I just returned from another trip to the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico is truly a beautiful state ( most of it anyway )
We finally took the time to make the semi-annual open house at the Trinity Site on White Sands Missile Range. The place where the first nuclear weapon was detonated.
It's only open for @ 6 hours on the first Saturday in April and October.
Amazing vistas, desert beauty and hugely important human history.
Sunrise over the Tularosa Basin
Jordana del Muerto
The 'crater' and monument
Bits of Trinitite, sand in the desert turned to green glass by the heat of the explosion.
Zane Adams wrote:
My bride and I just returned from another trip to the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico is truly a beautiful state ( most of it anyway )
We finally took the time to make the semi-annual open house at the Trinity Site on White Sands Missile Range. The place where the first nuclear weapon was detonated.
It's only open for @ 6 hours on the first Saturday in April and October.
Amazing vistas, desert beauty and hugely important human history.
Radiation at Trinity ground zero is higher than the normal background, but not by much. You’ll be exposed to more radiation during a cross country flight than you will by spending an hour at Trinity. I wouldn’t pick up any of the Trinitite and put it in my pocket though.
The radiation is pretty low, one hour at the site gives you a about a 1/2 mrem dose.... a chest x-ray gives you 10 mrem plus.... CT scan gives you @ 700 mrem.
And yes the Trinitite is the highest source...but there's not much left of that, most of it was buried or gathered and put in a storage unit on site.
No big deal. Just don't lick your shoes on the way home
The 2019 Fort Worth Alliance Air Show is a wrap, incredible weather, record attendance and military air power everywhere one looked. How many events have The Blues, The F22 Demo Team, Viper Demo Team, The F35C Demo, a B52 flyover, more T38's than you can count, it was great!
all of sudden this guy popped out from behind the hangar i was shooting beside, only had a couple seconds to focus and track before he was gone past me
I did a week long shoot for Cape Air a few year sago but it was great, Cessna 402 out of Logan 500' off the water to their base. I shot there for a few days then they just told me to fly their entire network as the light favored it and shoot "A Day In The Life" kind of stuff. When I was done I hopped on another 402, flew 500' over the ocean back to Logan and I was on my way home to DFW, perfection. 
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