nickjohnson wrote:
New Year down here on the UK south coast has been a bit strange. Endless days of wet grey miserable clag…. Ugh! Although it feels cold – actually just very damp – in reality it’s been very mild for the time of year. No frost for us this winter …. yet. In our garden we have summer annuals that are still flowering! Nights are getting shorter so it’s time to look out for harbingers of spring.
January was a very busy month for me, with NINE aircraft needing photographs for marketing and sales campaigns and February looks like another busy month for me. I am so thankful for all of God's blessings.
I was in Houston to photograph a jet on Tuesday, and when I went back inside the FBO to go take a shower and clean up before heading back home, in the pilot's lounge, I saw this magazine with my photo on the cover of it. I had no idea this was going to be on the cover and it was quite the surprise.
Looks like the Canon R5 is a reality! I'm having a meeting with Canon in the next week to discuss some of the details about the R5 and the upcoming big MP version. Imagine having 8K at 30fps and 4K at 120fps capability along with IBIS. Man, what a wonderful time to be an image-maker.
Funny how things happen, you all remember how hesitant I was to get pulled into the video/cinema market, just completely overwhelming. I'm grateful to the clients that "urged" me to jump in five years ago. Markets change so quickly. When Ross and Matt asked me to think about creating movies for them, what I knew about video wouldn't make a speck on your camera sensor and aside from that, the industries were very discrete. You were either a still photographer or a videographer, no one was adept at both. In retrospect the timing was perfect because the industry was about to change and a voracious demand for video/cinema, driven by social media among other things, was in the making.
There is still much to learn and more to perfect but the dimension that video/cinema has added to my work, my capabilities for my clients, and just my confidence that things that I didn't think possible really are within reach if one is willing to devote the time and effort and crawl out on that limb. Still photography is still a major component of my work, but from late 2019 to now still vs Video assignments are at about a 60/40 split with video in the lead. Between the Inspire 2 Drone, my Sony FS/7 & PXW-Z280, and the 1DXII mounted on a Ronin S, there isn't much that can't be done in the video arena. Thinking about what a camera like the R5 can add to that equation is pretty exciting! Something else that is pretty amazing when you think about it, I have a ton invested in video gear now, but when you compare it to what it would cost to produce the same product just five years ago, it's a drop in the bucket.
Just an amazing and exciting time to do what we love to do. Gotta go catch a helicopter, have a great day!
It's just amazing what one can come up with when scrounging through old shoe boxes.
The picture of this then younger Marine bears a weak resemblance to someone whom I see in the mirror every morning - that is assuming I have on my heavy specs
Loved the Tobago, save for the fact that it needed JA for both TO and Cruise. O
Probably taken with Olympus OM from back in the day of the mid to late 90's.
It has been a while since my last post here. I went to Japan during the holiday season to visit my sister and her family. Japan is such an amazing place. More about my adventure to Japan, hop on over and check it out.
In the recent discussion about the Nine-O-Nine crash and the cessation of some warbird flights, Jim opined that a combination of skyrocketing insurance rates (for warbirds and GA aircraft) and the view that some entities would not be sorry to see fewer GA aircraft in the skies did not bode well for warbird or GA operations. Well, all little more fuel might have been added to the fire.
JDE1 wrote:
In the recent discussion about the Nine-O-Nine crash and the cessation of some warbird flights, Jim opined that a combination of skyrocketing insurance rates (for warbirds and GA aircraft) and the view that some entities would not be sorry to see fewer GA aircraft in the skies did not bode well for warbird or GA operations. Well, all little more fuel might have been added to the fire.
Add in the $100M in liability Kobe's helicopter company will likely be shelling out and the dozen or so miscellaneous GA crashes and airline runway excursions, it's been a bad 12 months for the aviation insurance pool. I talked with a knowledgeable aviation participant the other day and he said e would be amazed at the number of aviation entities that are one insurance claim away from shutting their doors. Kind of like camera insurance policies, one claim and you're history, then no one will touch you because you have been cancelled or denied.
I think KTPL is Beth Jenkins 2nd favorite airport. She brought Devil Dog (PBJ-25-J1) in for some training/qualification cycles at our local airport. I grabbed a few shots...one even made the front page. Although the new paint is about 2 years old it still looks good.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Wonder what the ride was like?
The ride was good the landing on the other hand
just read that the KLM flight was the Capitan's fini flight so he was home quick.
Looked at the radar yesterday and there were a couple that were forced to go four to five time's around because of wind they spend more time in going around then the flight from a to b
It has been a while since my last post here. I went to Japan during the holiday season to visit my sister and her family. Japan is such an amazing place. More about my adventure to Japan, hop on over and check it out.
It was a great week for me last week, as I had another cover shot arrive in the mail with the latest edition of Executive Controller magazine.
This had to be the NICEST King Air I've ever photographed! It even had an actual sink/vanity in the back, next to the potty. I had NEVER seen that before. The pilots told me that this particular model was Beechcraft's King Air demonstrator a few years ago, so that explains why.
Hope everyone is having a great week! Off to the Air Capital of the World tomorrow to photograph another jet. So thankful for all of God's blessings.
The kids had to say "Goodbye" to their beloved Mattie a few weekends ago. I've lost more than enough humans to put the whole pet loss thing in perspective, but it was still a very sad Friday night at the vet's, Mattie was a sweet girl who loved her family dearly.
This weekend we welcomed "Piper" (yes, Chandler named her), to our clan...............
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Miss Halle is coming up the ranks, she's more suited to "street photography" I think, working on quality vs quantity at the moment.
Dear Jim, please can you give some warning prior to posting this time warp / time machine / Dr Who tardis, type stuff? Every time this happens I get vertigo and have to recline in a darkened room. It was only a couple of years ago that you posted a picture of a very young lady, holding a control box, and pushing the big button with a fearsome determination. Then Kaboom ! Now we get a picture of a slightly less young lady, with a rather larger “control box”. Can’t be the same person ….. can it?
