Love the photo's! Thanks for sharing. Out of curiosity I was wondering how much effort your "impulse" decision to got to Barksdale AFB was in terms of driving. I inquired with Google and it appears that they ether can't find or can't calculate any known route from Arlington, TX to Barksdale AFB. However if you search Barksdale Global Power Museum it would appear to be 3 hrs, 11 minutes and 212 miles to get there! Weird, it seems we can tell you how to get to an airpower museum on an actual AFB but not tell you how to get to the AFB it's self. I certainly am not enough of a left brain kinda person to understand that logic
All,
On the home computer update front........ New pc arrived today; now I begin the process of removing all the Bloatwear I don't want and installing all the necessary programs. Then on to back ups and extending the data storage. I am/have out grown a 1Tb hd so I am discerning options. If I have read and learned correctly what I would likely want is a RAID 1 like device with 2 HD's in mirrored configuration. And then an additional USB HD of sufficient size to maintain an offsite back up and some additional redundancy if I accidently delete files that I hadn't wanted to or something like that. It would also seem that mirrored drives are nice but you have to continuously monitor drive health to know if one drive goes toes up, fails, etc; and my favorite learning is that if you get a virus, malware, etc the mirrored drive nicely duplicates that too!!! Thus the need for a 3rd backup.
Any recommendations on 2 bay arrays for 4 to 8 TB HD for the onsite expanded storage? Seems for the offsite a sufficient size USB HD from Western Digital or equivalent is just fine. Been doing lots of learning, moving into this last aspect of the upgrades and it looks to be the most confusing part of the project for this mechanical engineer (non-IT). Too much info on the web about this topic and it's either way deep, high level for companies or very simple surface info for basic users. Anyone have opinions or helpful insight please reach out; all input welcome.
Got home about 3 hours ago from the Barksdale show. it's 1200 miles one way for me and my friend. 18-19 hours each way! Dan, I tried many time to calculate the distance from my house to Barksdale AFB, Google map could not yield a result, you have to type in a street address.
Great Time with Jim! Too tired to look at the pictures except this two.
Danpbphoto wrote:
Wife in hospital but I was allowed to stand on roof at Georgetown Hospital. BUT I had no camera.
Dan
Hope Douglas was there!
Great one Dan! I was driving back from Barksdale back to Maryland today, actually we started leaving Shreveport at 8:00 PM last night, got home at 4:00 PM today. Napped in the rest area for about an hour. My friend and I took turn to drive, too long!
I am too shy to post pix from the same show after Jim, but I bet Jim didn't use an infrared camera that weekend, so here is my turn, I was hoping for more clouds in the morning but there wasn't much. I got to say the BONE is one handsome looking beast!
ILCE-7M3E 17-28mm F2.8-2.8 lens28mmf/9.01/50s100 ISO0.0 EV
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ILCE-7M3E 17-28mm F2.8-2.8 lens27mmf/9.01/50s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7M3E 17-28mm F2.8-2.8 lens27mmf/9.01/50s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7M3E 17-28mm F2.8-2.8 lens23mmf/9.01/50s100 ISO0.0 EV
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JWilsonphoto wrote:
A little artistic license on this one for the owner......................
Glad 2 premier MA2A photographers finally got to meet up and enjoy eachothers company!
Great job Jim!
RD
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Douglas L wrote:
I am too shy to post pix from the same show after Jim, but I bet Jim didn't use an infrared camera that weekend, so here is my turn, I was hoping for more clouds in the morning but there wasn't much. I got to say the BONE is one handsome looking beast!
Great shots Douglas! The "flyover" at Arlington was yesterday or Monday(?) T6 to honor the Unknown Soldiers from another Country.
Great compositions Douglas!
Dan
Made with an ancient(28+yrs.) Tokina 100-300mm AT-X AF, first version. The AF uses the Nikon screw drive system, paired with a Nikon D750. I use the lens about once every ten years and I've kept it because...well, it's my version of '60s car.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Beautiful; Douglas! We need to start planning the next adventure!
Thank you Jim! I am still transferring the files to my computer, taking hours. I have probably 12K pictures from my two cameras (not counting the IR camera) from the 2 days.
The down side of spray and pray is the time it will take to delete 99.5% of the pictures. High frame rate makes this even worse. This is the first time I have ever gone to the same show 2 days in a row. I usually only do day trips.
My next show will be the one at Langley, the home of the F-22 that shot down the Xi balloon.. It's "ONLY" 4 hours drive from me.
No, it's an optical illusion, he's making a low altitude parachute jump and Kevin Coleman is circling him in the Red Bull Extra.
Thank you, Jim. I looked it up on the internet and apparently there was a stunt guy who would transfer himself from a helicopter on to a plane below him. He died doing it.
Another beautiful pix Jim, WOWSERS...
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12000 Douglas
Must take weeks to preview everyone and decide what to keep and not.
Time for a new camera after a few shows.
, but I bet Jim didn't use an infrared camera that weekend, so here is my turn
