New York Air Show – Static Display

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There were two static displays to supplement the flying portion of the airshow. I only managed to get to one of them, which was a pity because the other one apparently had an F-15 and F-16 and I would have liked to have seen them. It was just so hot that I didn’t feel like walking all the way in the sun. Above UH-1 HUEY Helicopter.

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C-130J Hercules – Nose

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M230 chain gun on Apache attack helicopter

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AGM-114 Hellfire Missiles on Apache attack helicopter

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Hydra 70 rocket pods on Apache attack helicopter

Hallowe’en’s coming

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Seen outside a local supermarket while shopping: rows of hallowe’en pots/buckets on shelves. I liked the contrasting colors: the greens of the plants; the purples of the shelves; and the bright oranges of the pots. I also liked the contrast between the textured plants and the smooth pots. Also the repetition of the pots and the plants and the fact that the pattern is broken by one of the pots that’s turned away.

Norwalk Visitors Dock

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Another one of my occasional forays into film. Taken in Norwalk, Connecticut – December 2011 with a Arsenal Kiev 4am (A Soviet Union copy of a pre-war Zeiss-Ikon Contax II) with a Arsenal Helios 53mm f1.8 lens. Soviet lenses tend to be a copy of something (usually a Zeiss lens), but I haven’t been able to discover what this is a copy of. Some internet sources say that its design is very close to that of a 1979 Leitz Summicron. I believe the film was probably Kodak Professional BW400CN Black and White Negative Film. As I recall it was taken quite early in the morning of a cloudy day.