Sorry Jan Arie, the distance I was from the threshold and the truck traffic at my back made decent audio next to impossible on those videos. I have a plan for future clips though so stand by!
While I was on the ramp in Bozeman, MT, an Air Force C-17 was departing and I was fortunate enough to catch it. What a gorgeous background to photograph aircraft departing such a beautiful area of our country!
JayDavis wrote:
While I was on the ramp in Bozeman, MT, an Air Force C-17 was departing and I was fortunate enough to catch it. What a gorgeous background to photograph aircraft departing such a beautiful area of our country!
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
A "monster" of a plane Jay. Dover AFB is about 100 road miles from me but the flight path into DoverAFB from the South is right over my house and the whine of those huge engines and the mass of the plane is not hard to miss!
Great capture!
Dan
Spent yesterday in Manchaca Texas, southwest of Austin. Our Grandson Hunter popped the question to his Sweetheart on the site of their first date and our Daughter put on a no holds barred Texas sized celebration at a beautiful little venue in Manchaca. The day was wonderful, "picture perfect", the food, Texas BBQ, was the absolute best I have ever had. 90 of Hunter's friends came to celebrate his engagement, it was quite the shindig.
Interesting shoot this morning. "Hello Fresh" is a company born out of the pandemic, they create great meals and clients can just subscribe and have the cuisines of their choosing shipped to their front door as frequently as they wish. I photographed their headquarters and production facilities today. A small detail that wasn't mention to me, the entire logistics complex, hundreds of thousands of square feet, ranges in temperature from 32 degrees to 0. It was literally snowing in one huge section. My knit shirt and jeans left me a little under dressed. I had to take my camera into the restroom and rotate it under the hand dryer for 20 minutes just to get the condensation off of teh body and lens elements, pretty brutal environment.
Congratulations to the newly committed couple as well as your family Jim. I am truly amazed with the youngsters who do the proposal thingy before the wedding. I waited until we had been married 45 years to propose my my special gal. She remembers me saying "I guess we should start making wedding plans" the night she first told me "I love you". Seems I was more concerned with closing the deal than asking for her hand, I just wanted to make it happen. Two months later I came home to take her to a mall to pick out a ring, and I never asked her for her hand!
Anyway, 50 years after our first date and 46.5 years after the mall visit and 45 years of a great start to a marriage, I got down on a knee in the black sand beach on Santorini Island and did a legitimate proposal with a new ring. Dog gone it if she didn't say yes!
Hunter, and his brothers are a rare breed, very respectful of women, don't believe in putting the cart before the horse, if you get my drift. Hunter is 22, Chandler is 19, Weston is almost 18, I have never heard anything unkind, or off color come from any of them. It's not that they use discretion around their elders, they just don't believe in it, impressive young men, leaders.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Hunter, and his brothers are a rare breed, very respectful of women, don't believe in putting the cart before the horse, if you get my drift. Hunter is 22, Chandler is 19, Weston is almost 18, I have never heard anything unkind, or off color come from any of them. It's not that they use discretion around their elders, they just don't believe in it, impressive young men, leaders.
We need a lot more young men that fit description Jim. Unfortunately young men like that are as rare as common sense these days.
Ttown Aubie wrote:
We need a lot more young men that fit description Jim. Unfortunately young men like that are as rare as common sense these days.
Could not AGREE more "TA"!!!!
Knowing Jim's family..the foundation of the family was built while the young men were young.
Respect, courtesy and discretion are lacking in many places....
Dan
Ray Swindle wrote:
Congratulations to the newly committed couple as well as your family Jim. I am truly amazed with the youngsters who do the proposal thingy before the wedding. I waited until we had been married 45 years to propose my my special gal. She remembers me saying "I guess we should start making wedding plans" the night she first told me "I love you". Seems I was more concerned with closing the deal than asking for her hand, I just wanted to make it happen. Two months later I came home to take her to a mall to pick out a ring, and I never asked her for her hand!
Anyway, 50 years after our first date and 46.5 years after the mall visit and 45 years of a great start to a marriage, I got down on a knee in the black sand beach on Santorini Island and did a legitimate proposal with a new ring. Dog gone it if she didn't say yes!
Danpbphoto wrote:
I don't even want to think if she said NO Ray! Just joshin' ya!
Fine looking couple Ray!!!! Many more years...!!!!
Dan
Looking back I have told her I didn't want to give her a chance to say "no", I wanted to close the deal. I was 1500 miles away in the USAF and she had a couple of guys she was dating at the time. As soon as she cracked the 'I love you' barrier I didn't want to give her a way out, I just wanted to win...and I did. I did like my chances for a "yes" 46.5 years later!
Hangar spots at KTKI are hotter than they have ever been. Closing on a fourth hangar in the next few days and it's already full. I had five new hangars saved for Rodolfo in a new complex that is about to finish up but he decided that he didn't want them. I took a risk and hung on to them, ended up making a killing on them because they went up $75 grand a piece in the process!
Sheila and I are celebrating 52 today. 
Just joshin' ya!
