Jan-Arie I can't tell you how much I love those century series fighter shots...great! (Yes, we consider the F-4 a century series since it was originally designated F-110.)
NCAA Div III football with our home team UMHB hosting Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg. I am really loving the R6-100-400 combo. I favor all of the players involved in the play being in focus.
Precious Metal taxiing out for what turned out to be it's last flight......................and Bob Odegaard in the Corsair in front of him would lose his life in that airplane a few months later.................
I've flown three aircraft in my life without a check out, a Rearwin Cloudster, Charlie Hilliard's Eagle, and this one, scary stuff, but I just couldn't say no to Ben Morphew, Doreen Hilliard and Geno.....................
That the one from DC3 Entertainment group that would keep that here in Oregon ?
One of them, if not this one was beautiful. they'd fly it up north just to get it buffed and then back to the hanger down here, you had to wear white suits and shoe covers.
Today was a loooong day. I pulled out of the drive at a little after 5 am and just got back. Long day shooting a jet, if you feel good, and I'd say I'm about 60% at this point. The aircraft photography business is a strange market. You can see in "Controller" that the quality and attention to detail is all over the map, and so are the rates people charge to do it. I could shoot nothing but aircraft, but I only shoot them one way and have zero interest in the econo market, the work is just too hard. I have brokers calling me on a weekly basis, and I shoot for some of them, but the ones who call and say, "just shoot it down and dirty, quality really doesn't matter....." well I just can't dial my work back to that level, I'd be afraid that I'd get lazy and lose my edge. In the end, I guess I shoot for me, and in doing that, I know the client will be happy.
I was looking forward to shoot Major Kristin "Beo" Wolfe doing her usual stunts on F-35. After waiting for almost an hr., the air show got cancelled due to cloud ceiling. Apparently they needed minimum of 1300 ft. to have a go at it. Only saving grace was some fun run by this local company who makes these small planes in house.
I wonder whatever happened to the rocket racing league? One year at Oshkosh there were five or six of those Rutan designs sporting rocket engines. They raced each evening. Didn’t interest me and it looked like a great way to commit suicide by aircraft. They sure went fast though.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I wonder whatever happened to the rocket racing league? One year at Oshkosh there were five or six of those Rutan designs sporting rocket engines. They raced each evening. Didn’t interest me and it looked like a great way to commit suicide by aircraft. They sure went fast though.
Reading your analysis I would have thought the league ended due to pilot attrition. Apparently, financial issues saved some lives...
