Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
For a variety of reasons I haven’t been getting out a lot just lately. So most of my pictures have been taken while walking the dog around the lake. This almost inevitably means that I’ve been taking pictures of fall foliage. I’ve taken so many of them that I’m getting tired of the brightly colored leaves. I’ll have to find another subject. But in the meantime here are some particularly spectacular leaves growing by the side of Lake Shore Road.
I know that I said that this post would be the last one from the NY Air Show. It turns out that I was wrong – I’d forgotten this one because it’s quite different from the others. First it’s black and white, where the others were color. And second, all of the other posts included aircraft. This one doesn’t. It’s just two people clearly enjoying the spectacle – as was I. And this really is the last post from the air show.
Scan of a negative taken many years ago outside of Bangkok, Thailand. According to Wikipedia:
A khlong (also commonly spelled klong; Thai: คลอง (Pronunciation)) is the general name for a canal on the central plain of Thailand. These canals are spawned by the Chao Phraya, the Tha Chin, the Mae Klong Rivers, and their tributaries. The Thai word khlong is not limited to artificial canals. Many smaller rivers are referred to as “khlong”, followed by the name of the stream.
Happy Hallowe’en to everyone.
This is the last of my New York Airshow pictures (it only took me two months to get them all out). Here we have the old and the new. Below, probably the most capable fighter aircraft in the world today: the F-22 Raptor. Above, arguably the best all-round fighter aircraft of the World War II: the P-51 Mustang. Together they form part of the US Air Force Heritage Flight described as follows on its site:
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force (USAF), the Heritage Flight program was founded in 1997. Heritage Flight performances of current fighter/attack aircraft flying with World War II, Korea and Vietnam era fighters dramatically display USAF airpower history and honor the brave men and women who have served, or are currently serving, in the USAF. In 2010, the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was formed to keep this popular program flying.
I was quite amazed to see that these two aircraft could fly together like this. I would have thought that the F-22 would not have been able to fly as slow as a P-51 – shows how much I know.