Wrei wrote:
Nick, have you ever flown in the Chinook (CH-47) for 3 hours? If not, imagine you are in a Kitchenaid mixing bowl on medium speed for 3 hours. That is why some are OK with it.
Never flew in an egg beater for more than about an hour..... but I did do Gander to Belize on the cargo ramp of a Belfast .... the recovery time was ..err... long
Our name sake
Hangar 11 P51D Tall in the Saddle an Original Red Tail flown by Peter Tiechman
This season i was lucky to see three new P51's Frenesi Berlin Express not flying unfortunately and tall in the saddle as I never have seen that one fly even in it's former paint scheme
The image stock market has seen quite a revision over the past decade, and it took me a while to wrap my head around someone getting to use one of my images for five bucks. Getty and I had a love/hate relationship for a period of time when I initially began to work with them, but it has turned out to be worth the effort. Back in the 80's when stock agencies like Tony Stone and Blackstar sold your images for $1,500 to $10,000 and up, selling stock was pretty sweet. The stock wore imploded when a couple of start up agencies offered photographers an opportunity to sell them a bunch of images, all at once, for five bucks a piece. I turned the offers down, and the other photographers should have done the same. Clearly this move was going to completely destroy the lucrative stock market, but a lot of photographers were facing a big downturn in the 80's so survival/greed took precedence and the rest is history. I got completely out of the stock market when all that began to unfold, except of instances where clients came directly to me for a particular image, but no large scale representation from any agency. Once I finally came to grips with the reality of stock sales and accepted Getty's offer to be represented as a Getty "Exclusive" photographer, I realized it wasn't all that bad of a deal over the long haul. Getting over the aversion to having thousands and thousands of images out there for a few bucks each took some time, but once you do that, and those cards and letters keep rolling in every month, the relationship becomes symbiotic and it's kind of nice having worldwide exposure 24/7, and someone else is doing all of the work.
What got me thinking about this today was a request for some aviation stock from an advertising agency. I sent them a couple of dozen watermarked "proof" images and they selected a number of them for a couple of projects they are working on. The images I sent them are not in my Getty library, so it doesn't affect my agreement with them, and the agency budget for my stock was easily 100 times what today's stock agencies are paying photographers. So, there's still a "stock market" out there that pays good dividends, if you have the network.
.... OK, I'll play along with the JA misty murk thing - but I'll leave the sharpness and clarity at the door. No, instead today's offering is along the lines of squint and make believe your a painter..... hey a boy can dream......
Neither of these even remotely approximate what you all do by way of aviation photography, nor will they ever garner "stock" status with the likes of Getty, nonetheless, I like them, and so I thought I'd brave running the gantlet by posting them here. I decided to invest in a D500 and LensRentals, well, rented me a 300/4E PF. I went down to KPHL yesterday, an altogether crummy day Wx-wise w/ clouds but intermittent slivers of sun to try my hand w/ that combination. Forgive me if I've screwed up on the size. I look to back here to post more after acquiring a long lens that will work also on my F6.
Also, Jim, though I never knew of Glenn except through his presence here, I share your experience of missing him. We will see him again soon enough, however
I'm loving how you all are embracing the bad weather shots instead of relegating them to the recycle bin. It's resulting in some really different style cool shots.
I look to back here to post more after acquiring a long lens that will work also on my F6. 
