Hello Jim. Just got back from a six hour round trip drive to Troup, Tx to attend memorial service from friend my wife and I went to school with. Quite a character and American Patriot. He graduated Valedictorian in our 600 student class and went straight into the Army a couple weeks after graduation. He immediately volunteered and was assigned Southeast Asia duty. He never attended college, yet he taught himself how to program software for mainframes and sustained a 40 year career attaining a vice president position. Neat guy who loved his family.
About the R3, I think Canon hurried that out for the wildlife folks. They are a big market for them and they were losing ground with the competition. I think we will know how Canon is structuring the lineup by the end of the year. Right now, I would say their RF lens lineup is a killer family of lenses and is their strength.
Presently the advocates of "sanitizing history" want ALL memorials of the Confederacy removed! I am a staunch advocate of learning from history not sanitizing it! We must learn from our mistakes not erase them!
Have a great weekend!
Dan
Very well put Dan and could not agree more. Pretty soon no one will know of our past mistakes and are likely to repeat them. Just like forgetting what the Nazis did or erasing what they did could create another Hitler.
Presently the advocates of "sanitizing history" want ALL memorials of the Confederacy removed! I am a staunch advocate of learning from history not sanitizing it! We must learn from our mistakes not erase them!
Have a great weekend!
Dan
Very well put Dan and could not agree more. Pretty soon no one will know of our past mistakes and are likely to repeat them. Just like forgetting what the Nazis did or erasing what they did could create another Hitler.
You are so correct, we have been catering and caving in to the juveniles for too long, it's going to be very difficult to ever put this genie back in the bottle. Certainly necessary, but painful to watch the process, be ready for another "summer of love"...........
Ray Swindle wrote:
Hello Jim. Just got back from a six hour round trip drive to Troup, Tx to attend memorial service from friend my wife and I went to school with. Quite a character and American Patriot. He graduated Valedictorian in our 600 student class and went straight into the Army a couple weeks after graduation. He immediately volunteered and was assigned Southeast Asia duty. He never attended college, yet he taught himself how to program software for mainframes and sustained a 40 year career attaining a vice president position. Neat guy who loved his family.
About the R3, I think Canon hurried that out for the wildlife folks. They are a big market for them and they were losing ground with the competition. I think we will know how Canon is structuring the lineup by the end of the year. Right now, I would say their RF lens lineup is a killer family of lenses and is their strength.
We will see.
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God Bless him Ray!
College isn't for everybody and not going to one doesn't mean one doesn't have the skills to achieve higher technology.
Many of the skilled jobs today, a college degree won't help you!
Dan
Very well put Dan and could not agree more. Pretty soon no one will know of our past mistakes and are likely to repeat them. Just like forgetting what the Nazis did or erasing what they did could create another Hitler.
You are so correct, we have been catering and caving in to the juveniles for too long, it's going to be very difficult to ever put this genie back in the bottle. Certainly necessary, but painful to watch the process, be ready for another "summer of love"...........
Now please don't get me wrong gentlemen! Issues like Nazism, Fascism, Communism...those remnants don't deserve to be remembered by memorials/monuments. The Historians will do that in the libraries.
Our Civil War was a shame and pitted sons against fathers and brothers against brothers. Luckily we had some politicians and military leaders that said enough is enough and united our country despite ongoing differences to this very day!
Danpbphoto wrote:
God Bless him Ray!
College isn't for everybody and not going to one doesn't mean one doesn't have the skills to achieve higher technology.
Many of the skilled jobs today, a college degree won't help you!
Dan
Dan, I think I fall into that category. Worked 20 years in aircraft maintenance, then got a BBA. A friend who worked at Boeing Aerospace asked me for my resume after I graduated to give to his boss. They hired me for a quality engineering position because of my maintenance experience. I spent the last half of my career as an aerospace safety/quality/reliability engineer. Never applied that BBA during my professional career, however it did help me in my personal finance planning. That sheepskin got me the interview, but my coursework played no part in my hiring. I don't think that happens much anymore. A really good friend of mine got a degree in psychology while he worked part time in the IBM mailroom. After graduation he told them he would be looking for a job in social services. His IBM boss sent him to interview with the software people who told him they were going to make a programer out of him. Remember when Neil Armstrong was piloting the Lunar Lander looking for a good landing spot and the ground controllers in the control room were panicking because of the fuel quantity? My friend with the psychology degree was the IBM guy in the backroom calculating the remaining fuel on board the Lander to communicate the results to the NASA controller.
But heck, I just paid two plumbers $650 for about 2 hours of work to reroute some water drains and insulate my pipes. Not a bad job if you can pass the plumbing exams.
Ray Swindle wrote:
Dan, I think I fall into that category. Worked 20 years in aircraft maintenance, then got a BBA. A friend who worked at Boeing Aerospace asked me for my resume after I graduated to give to his boss. They hired me for a quality engineering position because of my maintenance experience. I spent the last half of my career as an aerospace safety/quality/reliability engineer. Never applied that BBA during my professional career, however it did help me in my personal finance planning. That sheepskin got me the interview, but my coursework played no part in my hiring. I don't think that happens much anymore. A really good friend of mine got a degree in psychology while he worked part time in the IBM mailroom. After graduation he told them he would be looking for a job in social services. His IBM boss sent him to interview with the software people who told him they were going to make a programer out of him. Remember when Neil Armstrong was piloting the Lunar Lander looking for a good landing spot and the ground controllers in the control room were panicking? My friend with the psychology degree was the IBM guy in the backroom calculating the remaining fuel on board the Lander to communicate the results to the NASA controller.
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Yes Ray..I was drafted out of my Sophomore year of college, enlisted in Basic for Ranger School(if I passed the exam-RASP) spent my 6 years in, returned to college to finish my degree on Uncle Sam's "dime" taught 6 months in an inner city high school in Baltimore and said "this ain't for me!!!"
Luckily a hs classmate worked for the FBI and at a reunion told me another federal agency was looking for agents with my "military skill set" and so goes my 40 year story!
I also had a highschool classmate that forgoed college, enlisted- was an aircraft mechanic and ended up being a "project manager" at NASA-Greenbelt.
I agree with you Ray, about making the most of your ability or an opportunity.
I've been involved with the travel industry all my life, in some form or another. I worked as a travel agent while going to college and got a degree in advertising, yet I NEVER worked in the advertising industry, at all, in my professional career.
I've been a professional aircraft photographer for over 14 years now and I'll give ALL the credit to God, there is NO other way I can explain how all the swiss cheese holes lined up for me, to become an aircraft photographer.
I saw my first copy of Executive Controller magazine back in 1992 while I was working at NCR Corporation in Las Colinas in Irving, TX. My friend owned a Cessna Cardinal and one day we went to Signature Flight Services, FBO at Dallas Love Field. I took a copy of the magazine back to my office with me and started looking at all the beautiful photos of the private aircraft that were for sale. I thought to myself, "How in the world do you become an aircraft photographer?" Fast forward now, and I am now proud to report that this photo is now my 27th cover in one of the various trade publications in the private aviation industry. Once again, I just have been so blessed by God and all the doors He has opened for me and for that, I'm so grateful.
JayDavis wrote:
I agree with you Ray, about making the most of your ability or an opportunity.
I've been involved with the travel industry all my life, in some form or another. I worked as a travel agent while going to college and got a degree in advertising, yet I NEVER worked in the advertising industry, at all, in my professional career.
I've been a professional aircraft photographer for over 14 years now and I'll give ALL the credit to God, there is NO other way I can explain how all the swiss cheese holes lined up for me, to become an aircraft photographer.
I saw my first copy of Executive Controller magazine back in 1992 while I was working at NCR Corporation in Las Colinas in Irving, TX. My friend owned a Cessna Cardinal and one day we went to Signature Flight Services, FBO at Dallas Love Field. I took a copy of the magazine back to my office with me and started looking at all the beautiful photos of the private aircraft that were for sale. I thought to myself, "How in the world do you become an aircraft photographer?" Fast forward now, and I am now proud to report that this photo is now my 27th cover in one of the various trade publications in the private aviation industry. Once again, I just have been so blessed by God and all the doors He has opened for me and for that, I'm so grateful.
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You are too humble Jay! Like Jim sez...It's in your DNA!
Congrats and Well Done!
Dan
I'm going out on a limb and letting him use my little Olympus and he is being very responsible with it. Just hoping it doesn't hit the ground. He's a a stage where a kids camera doesn't get him what he's wanting to create, and I don't want him to get frustrated and lose interest. We just talk regularly about not bouncing that $600 Oly off anything hard...........
He got his first tripod a few days ago and he hasn't put it down since it arrived.
