Very nice Jim,
I love John Denver, he's on my favs and pops up every time on sirius xm.
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Good story as well Eddie and I hear ya on costs now a days, concerts and school.
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Look at Air Show costs and parking now a days.
Nice story Jim! Every time I go to West Virginia to photograph the fall foliage, I play his "Take Me Home Country Road".
Here is a picture of me and someone you may have heard of. Long story short, I was his tour guide when he ventured in to red China for a day trip from Hong Kong in 1987.
Ray Swindle wrote:
My concert story (seems I always have a story, huh?):
Around 1992 my daughter asked me if she could go to a concert with U2 or some popular band. I asked her how much the tickets were. She told me they were $75 but she planned to pay for her ticket. I told her to go figure out how many hours she had to work at her Saturday job to pay for the ticket.
A few weeks later I asked her if she was going to the concert and she said "No, it's too expensive".
By comparison, in 1987 I would have had to work a little over one hour as a crew chief to pay for one of Jim's tickets.
Well Ray, all those DEI indoctrination courses are very expensive to put on Ya know! Grrrr!
Apparently, universities in the US have adopted the concert business plan. We were able to afford her 4 year college education in the 1990's without any debt, today, I couldn't afford my granddaughters first year of college without going into debt.
Rant over! The "feels like" temperature here in Central TX is 18° with gusts over 30 mph. Good weather to shoot a soccer game, thank goodness it's basketball tonight....Show more →
Well Ray, those DEI courses are very expensive to put on you know, and some students don't absorb it all in one go around so it has to saturate everything, very costly....................
Just read that Hertz is dumping over 21,000 electric vehicles due to low demand and high maintenance costs..............they deserve it for drinking the cool aid.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Just read that Hertz is dumping over 21,000 electric vehicles due to low demand and high maintenance costs..............they deserve it for drinking the cool aid.
Imagine going to airshows to see electric fighter planes and hear no jet engine noise?
Douglas L wrote:
Nice story Jim! Every time I go to West Virginia to photograph the fall foliage, I play his "Take Me Home Country Road".
Here is a picture of me and someone you may have heard of. Long story short, I was his tour guide when he ventured in to red China for a day trip from Hong Kong in 1987.
You sent me a copy of this many years ago Douglas and I have wanted to post it many times to show members that the road you traveled to get to America had some good turns but I imagine not many!
I would not post it without your permission but you did ...FINALLY!
Welcome HOME!
Dan
Douglas L wrote:
Imagine going to airshows to see electric fighter planes and hear no jet engine noise?
Imagine the "refueler" that would have to re-energize that "bunny!"!!!!
No..I will stick with all the noise and the smell of "av fuel"!
Bill Gass wrote:
Oh dam, you stud muffin Douglas...!!!! -NICE-
Thank you Bill!. I had to google what "stud muffin" means, . Stud muffin I was not but sure I had a lot more hair and weighed 50 pounds less back then.
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Danpbphoto wrote:
You sent me a copy of this many years ago Douglas and I have wanted to post it many times to show members that the road you traveled to get to America had some good turns but I imagine not many!
I would not post it without your permission but you did ...FINALLY!
Welcome HOME!
Dan
Thank you Dan! I didn't realize I sent you a copy of the picture! For those who didn't know my background, being a tour guide in China gave me the opportunities to meet many foreigners, including many generous Americans, some of whom became friends. One day after the Tiananman Square Massacre on June 4, 1989, a couple from Ohio sent a telegraph to my home that simply said "come now!". Long story short, they became my sponsor and helped me get accepted to Ohio State University. It was very difficult for Chinese students to be granted a student visa by the U.S. government that time. With the admission letter from OSU, the financial sponsorship paper from the Ohio couple, the picture with MJ and a signed letter from President Reagan (another long story), I walked into the U.S. consulate in Guangzhou (aka Canton), the consulate officer who interviewed me just asked a few questions, he looked at the picture and Reagan's letter, and said "you are in". Fast forward, I got a job after I graduated from OSU, and got a green card shortly after. My wife and I became proud U.S. citizens on Nov 2, 2001, shortly after 9.11. I couldn't tell you how proud we were that day. So, we came legally.
Douglas L wrote:
Thank you Bill!. I had to google what "stud muffin" means, . Stud muffin I was not but sure I had a lot more hair and weighed 50 pounds less back then.
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Thank you Dan! I didn't realize I sent you a copy of the picture! For those who didn't know my background, being a tour guide in China gave me the opportunities to meet many foreigners, including many generous Americans, some of whom became friends. One day after the Tiananman Square Massacre on June 4, 1989, a couple from Ohio sent a telegraph to my home that simply said "come now!". Long story short, they became my sponsor and helped me get accepted to Ohio State University. It was very difficult for Chinese students to be granted a student visa by the U.S. government that time. With the admission letter from OSU, the financial sponsorship paper from the Ohio couple, the picture with MJ and a signed letter from President Reagan (another long story), I walked into the U.S. consulate in Guangzhou (aka Canton), the consulate officer who interviewed me just asked a few questions, he looked at the picture and Reagan's letter, and said "you are in". Fast forward, I got a job after I graduated from OSU, and got a green card shortly after. My wife and I became proud U.S. citizens on Nov 2, 2001, shortly after 9.11. I couldn't tell you how proud we were that day. So, we came legally....Show more →
You did many years ago! And I also served under President Reagan! A shame I didn't know! I would gladly have helped. I did so with a few Vietnamese( the Hmongs and Montganards I wanted to do NOT fear the Vietnamese of the Chinese) that I helped "relocate" to America.
I think one of the most dramatic, emotional and prophetic photos ever taken was the one with a lone person holding a flower halting a tank from proceeding forward!
And to think the Chinese were our allies in WWII! Seems our allies have turned to our enemies and our enemies are now our closet allies! What an oxymoron!
Welcome HOME!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
You did many years ago! And I also served under President Reagan! A shame I didn't know! I would gladly have helped. I did so with a few Vietnamese that I helped "relocate" to America.
I think one of the most dramatic, emotional and prophetic photos ever taken was the one with a lone person holding a flower halting a tank from proceeding forward!
And to think the Chinese were our allies in WWII! Seems our allies have turned to our enemies and our enemies are now our closet allies! What an oxymoron!
Welcome HOME!
Dan
I know history can't be changed, I wish Nationalist Party government hadn't lost the bloody civil war to CCP after WWII. The Nationalist Party leadership wasn't the most competent...2 days before Taiwan's presidential election today, former president Ma, a member of the Nationalist Party, in an interview with a German outlet, said the Taiwanese people should trust Xi. He was either on drug or got bought out by the CCP, probably the latter. Glad his party lost today. The Taiwanese military, business and even the government are highly contaminated by the CCP, and they wonder why the U.S. doesn't sell them the F-35.
We are getting ready to create a whole new media package for my Buddy Adam Baker. I'm going through some previous work to see what looked cool and what didn't. I'm tempted to never attend another air show that isn't held at dusk.................
Beautiful Ray, kind of makes you wonder whether the daytime performances are even worth shooting. Maybe I am just getting spoiled and picky in my later years.....................
. Long story short, I was his tour guide when he ventured in to red China for a day trip from Hong Kong in 1987.
. Stud muffin I was not but sure I had a lot more hair and weighed 50 pounds less back then. 
