Great posts! Wonderful way to honor those who gave all.
PS - Arlington is one of my most favorite memorials in DC. What it stands for, the history and those who are laid to rest there. Just sends chills up my spine. To read the stories how the Union commanders ordered soldiers be buried near the house first to make it un-inhabitable for the Lee's to return............... and that Lincoln and staff felt this was an appropriate way to wage total war. Truly a leason in human history for all; for all our accomplishments as humans we continue to have a lot to learn....Show more →
I have 2 photojournalistic articles on how Arlington was stolen from Robert E. Lee's family and made our National Cemetery. Irony here? The UNion General(Gen. Meigs) who stole the property is buried there, as is his son who Meigs blames Lee for his death, and President Lincolns son, Sec of the Dept of War, signed the papers to return the property to the Lee family and made it our National Cemetery.
My best article, and members here on FM helped me with photos from the South, is on line. I will send you the link via PM.
The other article made the "ARMY Magazine" cover and the story on its 150th Anniversary.
Thanks!
Dan
John S. Hudson wrote:
Got my first chance to photograph Air Force One last year, glad to have found a small gap in the trees as this was an approach to 10R at CMH which is less than ideal for spotting arrivals on that runway.
msalvetti wrote:
Dan, do you know what section that last photo looking down the hillside is from? It reminds me a lot of the hillside above my uncle's grave, although I suspect that is unlikely.
Mark
I believe it is Sec29 off Sherman Drive Mark! Please send me your Uncle's name and info. I volunteer for Arlington(since 2009) and would love to honor him in person.
Fellow member Bob Jarman's father and mother are there also. I visit them each Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
If any other members has family there, let me know. Need all headstone info..Full name, DOB,DOD,Service(Army,Navy...) If wife is there with him or husband with her..let me know that also.
Thanks!
Dan
Sorry for the small image. It was from my published ANC article.
msalvetti wrote:
Dan, do you know what section that last photo looking down the hillside is from? It reminds me a lot of the hillside above my uncle's grave, although I suspect that is unlikely.
Mark
Mark,
If your Uncle is buried there, I will know where. If you can see into DC, it is there or close by.
Just email(you have it correct?) If not PM me please! His full name, date of death, state......They are expanding ANC as we speak..an entire new section is being constructed.
Dan
JAM11 wrote:
As always...........OUTSTANDING Douglas!!
Jon
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Bill Gass wrote:
That last one Douglas...It's like they are flying right beside you.
Nice shot.
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Danpbphoto wrote:
I looked for you among the tv clips of the air show Douglas. I did not see you but I knew you where there!
RD
Thank you all gentlemen!
I was going to Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day to take some pictures of the flags planted in front of all the headstones, the weather forecast didn't look good so I decided not to go. Maybe next year.
Great posts! Wonderful way to honor those who gave all.
Douglas,
You envy those in the Pacific NW, and we all envy your skills! Just superb string of photos; the F35 head on is awesome, but all are in a league of their own.
Dan
PS - Arlington is one of my most favorite memorials in DC. What it stands for, the history and those who are laid to rest there. Just sends chills up my spine. To read the stories how the Union commanders ordered soldiers be buried near the house first to make it un-inhabitable for the Lee's to return............... and that Lincoln and staff felt this was an appropriate way to wage total war. Truly a leason in human history for all; for all our accomplishments as humans we continue to have a lot to learn....Show more →
Thank you Dan!
I have photographed Arlington many times in the last 5 or 6 years. The most haunting but most beautiful is when the headstones are buried in snow, in m opinion of course.
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Danpbphoto wrote:
Mark,
If your Uncle is buried there, I will know where. If you can see into DC, it is there or close by.
Just email(you have it correct?) If not PM me please! His full name, date of death, state......They are expanding ANC as we speak..an entire new section is being constructed.
Dan
I will Dan, thank you. I’m sitting at JFK waiting for a flight home. He’s in Section 66, so the hillside above him is Section 8 at Eisenhower and Arnold Drive.
msalvetti wrote:
I will Dan, thank you. I’m sitting at JFK waiting for a flight home. He’s in Section 66, so the hillside above him is Section 8 at Eisenhower and Arnold Drive.
I have photographed Arlington many times in the last 5 or 6 years. The most haunting but most beautiful is when the headstones are buried in snow, in m opinion of course.
Just beautiful images Douglas! They are expanding ANC greatly now!
Again fantastic photos!
Here's another one from my recent trip to Cajon Pass. This location is called Sullivan's Curve. Besides all the trains that go through the area; the landscape is also very impressive.
I just got back, thanks to a couple of skilled AA pilots who ably threaded the weather, from the east coast. Put 9,000+ exposures on the R5 & R5C, and flew my drone higher, farther and faster than I have since I bought it, most of the flights were over deep water. I put about five hours on the Mavic 3 and really stretched my legs with it.
Some "odd knowledge" for the techies in our group. I'm backing up my files. still/4K video to my RAID Arrays. The source is a SanDisk SSD and the targets are 22TB Western Digital hard drives. Total size of the folder is just under 700GB and the upload time is 12 minutes and change. Pretty fast, I can remember the old day when a folder like that took hours to transfer.
