This picture shows an SR 71 flying during an airshow at Mildenhall, Great Britain. It looks so surreal seeing an SR 71 at this low angle wish I had been there for this airshow in the 1980s.
I was at that airshow! Had the privilege of seeing the SR71 on a few occasions - Mildenhall, Greenham Common and Fairford. It certainly had a presence! For us in the UK we still talk about Mildenhall - with the flying, american burgers and drink it made for a great weekend out! Sadly is no longer but at least I'd had the experience of it with my late father.
Thanks for that. A behind the scenes of what is normally an impenetrable sheen of the armed services. Funny, too.
I'd forgotten that Jimmy Stewart had been a pilot, including of the B-47. The guy was accomplished for sure.
One of my favorite movies is "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" made in 1964 by Stanley Kubrick who was also a photographer. The plane in that movie was a B-52 which is also an icon of '60s, and beyond.
Did a shoot this week for a UK based client, "Sixes Cricket". This is an entertainment venue in DFW that is opening this weekend, it's like batting cages, only for Cricket. The experience is loaded with today's technology so the player is able to choose their experience level and they can play Cricket with another team as the cricket balls are being served from a 4K video screen at the opposite end of the cage.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
And apparently no Cricket match would be complete without the appropriate libations ..............
Nicely done. I will assume the floor is a colored, non-absorbing something.
Very interesting. Checked Wikipedia and to my surprise Cricket is played around the world. Now this tavern might just be using the game as a draw while the money is in the libations. Still, the game is popular with women who might introduce it to a wider audience here, fun until Nike and Amazon get a hold of it.
Anyone on a Mac having a problem with an "application memory limit" window? I'm sure some update happened and now this will be a glitch for who knows how long! I spoke with Apple Care and, of course, they pointed all the fingers at Adobe, Adobe points to Apple, I'm stuck in the middle. I have a $6K MacBook Pro that won't let me use Photoshop for more than 5 minutes without locking up.....ugh!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Anyone on a Mac having a problem with an "application memory limit" window? I'm sure some update happened and now this will be a glitch for who knows how long! I spoke with Apple Care and, of course, they pointed all the fingers at Adobe, Adobe points to Apple, I'm stuck in the middle. I have a $6K MacBook Pro that won't let me use Photoshop for more than 5 minutes without locking up.....ugh!
Is it an Apple silicon Mac?
I have an M1 iMac with 16gb of memory and there is one program(PicArrange) with which I get that limitation. No problems with Adobe but the files I run are no larger than 1gb, most are much smaller. That notice has only shown on this computer but I've not called Apple since I figure my iMac is not a pro machine and otherwise it works well.
Yes, it is an M1 MacBook Pro. I spent a couple of hours researching this problem and may have figured it out. I'm not sure who to pin it on but it seems to be related to the cache within Adobe Bridge 2023. I've never had the problem before so Apple probably shares some of the blame with some software update hiccup. Deleting the cache in Bridge got rid of it for the moment, let's see if that continues to be the case. Last night I pulled up activity monitor and it was showing Bridge 2023 using 200GB and it was frozen. My research shows that this has been a problem since 2021 but I haven't had it until very recently.
I typically keep configure my laptops maxed out so that they will last for three or four years, this one is just 11 months old. Six grand is a lot to shell out for a laptop that only lasts a year, hopefully it's fixed. Frustrating to call tech help and have them just point fingers in every direction but heir own, especially when you can go to the Apple Community website and this problem is all over it. I guess they are hesitant to give advice related to 3rd party software, slippery slope I suppose.
Is that some form of "skate board" for water? I don't see a ski rope and it appears he is surfing the wake behind the boat.
My late friend Rick used to do something similar; when he would get tired slalom skiing and then surface the wake from the boat. The ski rope would go slack and he could rest back there before getting back to cutting up the water. Allowed him to ride a ski for 20 minutes or more at a time!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
And apparently no Cricket match would be complete without the appropriate libations ..............
Great work Jim!
The floor is wonderful! Exposure is dead on!
I saw my only live cricket match while visiting me best mate in Australia in 1970. Oh there was plenty of libations being consumed! Believe me!
Well done!
RD
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Pretty good stabilization in the R5, this was captured at 1/40th as we bounced along..................
Fantastic IBIS!!!!!!
Be careful brother or that bouncing will put you in the water.
R5 water proof?
RD
Is that some form of "skate board" for water? I don't see a ski rope and it appears he is surfing the wake behind the boat.
My late friend Rick used to do something similar; when he would get tired slalom skiing and then surface the wake from the boat. The ski rope would go slack and he could rest back there before getting back to cutting up the water. Allowed him to ride a ski for 20 minutes or more at a time!
Dan
Hi Dan,
It's "wake surfing", all the rage at the moment. The technology in the boat is amazing, once you find your sweet spot as far as the shape of the wake, speed of the boat, etc, you just program it with your name and the boat will repeat the conditions. There are all kinds of blades/fins/bladders that can be positioned to produce the perfect wake, then you program each wakeboarder's name to their ideal settings, it reduces all the experimenting. I spent. a lot of time on the back of the boat shooting stills and video, the thought of getting bounced off did enter my mind. Speeds are pretty reasonable, around 15 mph so you aren't ripping around the lake like you would be with slalom skiing, or tubing. I have done some shooting from a SeaDoo, facing backward, now that get's dicey.
Oh, the wakeboarder gets up via a ski type rope, then feels his way to the sweet spot in the wake and tosses the rope to someone on the back of the boat.........or at the photographer if they are a wise guy.
if it goes in it belongs to State Farm the moment it hits the water.