JWilsonphoto wrote:
Yup, Pitt's S2A, Skybolt, Citabria, Stearman, CAP10, Gene Soucy's Show Cat, T-6, T-38, F/16, F/18, and, there is an urban myth that I flew a Lear 24 inverted way back in 1974......................
Hold on now, a Lear upside down and saved lives? A movie comes to mind. Myth, eh?
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Yup, Pitt's S2A, Skybolt, Citabria, Stearman, CAP10, Gene Soucy's Show Cat, T-6, T-38, F/16, F/18, and, there is an urban myth that I flew a Lear 24 inverted way back in 1974......................
Ray Swindle wrote:
Yep, the one below plus in an F-4...twice.
That last shot, the F-35 was flying from left to right, making the best looking vapor cone of the whole show, my Sony A1 and 600 F4+1.4 TC played a joke on me, it just froze. I had to dismount and remount the lens from the camera to make it work again. So the last shot was what I got from this $20000 combo.
Just stunning, jaw dropping compositions here Douglas!!!! Fantastic photography and better photo angles!
Just "top shelf" photography my friend!
Dan
Douglas, those photos of us never came through to my phone via the text you sent. Would you mind giving it one more try?
I've only had a chance to process about half the photos I took the first day, and I'm not too impressed with myself. Hopefully Day 2 will be better.
Mark
I saw this Mark but somehow, more frequently, I saw and remarked about Douglas's lens cover!
It is always great to see "a faceless "handle" on FM to the real thing!
Well done!
Dan
JWilsonphoto wrote:
My guess is, running an airline was a bit more labor intensive than they anticipated, especially with the pilot shortage, and someone made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
Then that was a wise decision. Competent, quality mechanics and aircraft worthy are hard to find. I believe the military provides the best!
But I like Mr Perot's philosophy and he is smiling all the way to the bank!
To bad we don't have a government that can follow his lead. Sorry!!!! My "dishwasher" just started rattling and fuming...
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
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Sorry!!!! My "dishwasher" just started rattling and fuming...
I'm reasonably sure that the "dishwashers" issue can be solved with a new piece of jewelry, a new pair of shoes, or a romantic weekend away at a quiet bed & breakfast somewhere. Every once in a while you just need to show the "dishwasher" a little extra love and attention.
kwbarnes wrote:
I'm reasonably sure that the "dishwashers" issue can be solved with a new piece of jewelry, a new pair of shoes, or a romantic weekend away at a quiet bed & breakfast somewhere. Every once in a while you just need to show the "dishwasher" a little extra love and attention.
Heh Ken!
Oh my dishwasher is fine, it heard that it is a topic for a new means of restrictions.
She don't like that!!!!!
"A weekday getaway?"....oh boy would my wife and I love that! "Life" has gotten in the way!
Thanks!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
Just stunning, jaw dropping compositions here Douglas!!!! Fantastic photography and better photo angles!
Just "top shelf" photography my friend!
Dan
Thank you Dan! Next show for me will be the Blue Angels at the Naval Academy in 2 week!
The Lear 24 was the closest thing to flying a fighter, the performance was eye watering. We used to have to manually spin our altimeters to the appropriate altitude because the rate of climb was so fast that our avionics would be showing us leaving 4,000' and we, in actuality, would be climbing through 20,000'. The lag was ridiculous. Jimmy Carter's fuel embargo was in effect so, in the interest of efficiency, ATC would generally give us an unrestricted clearance from the surface to FL410. Nothing but Lears and military at that altitude in the 70's. One night we were heading to Michigan to demo an agricultural trenching machine, the air was crystal clear and we were directly over the Chicago lakefront at 410. I picked up the phone and called my Dad, he asked "where are you?", I said "About 9 miles from your house..................straight up!"
Selling equipment was fun with the Lear as a tool. We'd fly in somewhere and pick up a client, fly him to a location where the machine he was thinking about was working, let him demo it, buy him lunch and dinner and jet him home. Usually the client was so mesmerized by the whole experience they'd sign anything. The equipment was highly sophisticated AG trenching machinery made in Germany and powered by Deutz, it was the Caterpillar of trenching equipment. I was about to be named sales manager because of my numbers and life was good, until the owner of the company started monopolizing the Lear to fly around with hookers and show off. Didn't take long to realize that, as great as sales were, I couldn't keep up with his excesses and feed the Lear, the Jet Ranger and a couple of single engine Cessna's. I could see the end of that movie so I bid him farewell after two great years and moved to Texas, the rest is, as they say, history.
I photographed this G-550 last week in Indiana and it was a very gloomy day. The aircraft was such a beautiful jet, just very disappointed that the sky wasn't as blue as I'd hoped for.
Heading to Louisiana tomorrow for a Citation Sovereign.
My 24 TS/E lost a knob apparently, still shifts ok but it's a pain and I use it so often it needs to go to CPS. Back in the day I had two of just about everything and it was a good strategy, pricey, but comforting. I suppose I had better get this fixed before they don't support the EF 24 TS/E anymore. The RF version of that lens will be on my list as soon as it's released, it's been a tremendous lens and a real workhorse, probably used more than any lens I own.
This week's project and where I discovered that a knob was awol............. BTW this home was around $400K pre-covid/supply chain/general disaster, it's close to $700K the way it sits, property tax around $20K, HOA dues at $1,800, pretty soon you're talking real money........ Trends are funny, everyone has gone back to white walls and dark cabinetry, very monochromatic, but it sure bounces light around nicely.
CPS is amazing, just went to the site, already have a cost estimate and shipping instructions. Looks like they have to disassemble the lens to fix it right, $400 for parts and labor and it'll be back in a a few days.
JayDavis wrote:
I photographed this G-550 last week in Indiana and it was a very gloomy day. The aircraft was such a beautiful jet, just very disappointed that the sky wasn't as blue as I'd hoped for.
Heading to Louisiana tomorrow for a Citation Sovereign.
White aircraft with a white/light background. Sometimes the background choices are unflattering (to say the least).
Don't know if this would have been possible, but did you consider shooting the aircraft from the top of a vehicle, a bucket lift, a borrowed ladder, or a building/hanger roof? Elevating yourself (and the camera) would have you shooting the aircraft from a higher vantage point. This (with adequate elevation) would in effect "raise" the background greenery in relation to the aircraft and would help "define" the aircraft in the image, and make it "pop" more than the cloudy sky you were forced to deal with.
Interesting side note on those Tuskegee portraits, Nikon had a rep there with us and he handed me a D800 pre-production body with a 100/ 1.4 mounted on it. I asked those two gentlemen if they would be kind enough to spend a few minutes with me out in the hotel lobby, click, click and that's what I captured. Funny, I had to ask the rep to turn the camera on for me, it had been that long since I had a Nikon in my hands. When I got back to my room late that night I post processed those shots, called the rep in his room and told him to get me two bodies as soon as he could. One week later Competitive called me to tell me that they had a package from Nikon with my name on it.
Hopefully Day 2 will be better.
