to my personal blog. Here I post examples of my photography and writing. I specialize in making unique and highly detailed photographs. Notice I said making and not taking. Yes I take photos but a lot of time and work is involved in pushing and punishing the pixels in my images to achieve the look I like.
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Can't we all just get along?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 7:08AM | in Aviation, HDR, Museum, National Air and Space Museum, Udvar Hazy Center, Washington DC The Russian built Mig-15 Fagot and the American F-86 Saber jet fighters were adversaries during the Korean war. Very closely matched, either could be deadly in the hands of a good pilot.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 9:21AM | in Aviation, California, Chino Planes of Fame Museum, HDR, Museum, Panorama Panorama of the Planes of Fame airplane boneyard. These aircraft are awaiting restoration to flight status.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 9:11AM | in Aviation, California, Chino Planes of Fame Museum, HDR, Museum The P-51 Mustang "Wee Willy II" awaiting its afternoon flight. The amazing Rolls Royce Merlin engine transformed the Mustang from a lackluster low altitude patrol aircraft into the premiere front line fighter of world war 2.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 9:06AM | in Aviation, California, Chino Planes of Fame Museum, HDR, Museum P-51D Mustang "Wee Willy II" shining in the late afternoon light with its hanger in the background.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 9:00AM | in Aviation, California, Chino Planes of Fame Museum, HDR, Museum The Planes of Fame museum in Chino, California has monthly events where a single type of aircraft is featured. Guest speakers and a flight of the featured aircraft make for a memorable and fun day at the museum.
Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 11:15PM | in Aviation, Chino Planes of Fame Museum, HDR, Museum These historic aircraft are awaiting funds and skilled hands to restore them to flight conditon. Making history by saving it, the Chino Planes of Fame museum is an amazing place.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 8:57PM | in Aviation, HDR, Museum, National Air and Space Museum, Space, Spacecraft, Travel, Udvar Hazy Center, Washington DC The only space shuttle ever built that never flew in space. The space shuttle Enterprise is on display at the Udvar Hazy center near Washington D.C.
Monday, January 4, 2010 at 6:24AM | in Aviation, HDR, Museum, National Air and Space Museum, Panorama, Travel, Washington DC I mounted my DSLR on my gorilla pod and put it on the ground at the Udvar Hazy Center in Washington D.C. for this 3 shot HDR panorama. Each of the 3 shots consists of 10 exposures. I used Photoshop CS4 to stitch this. Original file size before downsizing for upload was over 14,000 pixels wide.
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:11PM | in HDR, Museum, Travel, Washington DC This was the original Smithsonian museum building.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:16AM | in Aviation, HDR, Museum, National Air and Space Museum, Spacecraft, Washington DC So much history in just one photo. From left to right are:
Charles Lindberg's "The Spirit of St. Louis" which was the first aircraft to fly solo from New York to Paris.
Scaled Composites "Space Ship One" which is a rocket powered aircraft that made the first privately funded space flight.
Bell Aircraft's X-1 rocket plane in which US Air Force pilot Charles "Chuck" Yeager first exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.
