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This shot is for my great friend Lisa zoom in tight, she always has a smile on her face even while battling cancer. As she goes through Chemo a group was formed in her honor named: The Wiggin' Out for Lisa and I’m proud to be one of the newest members!
I was going for a his/her prehistoric BC style for Mr & Mrs Zoom, something casual.
BC style models: Giggles and Bonehead
Don’t you just hate it when boneheaded drivers take their half down the middle? With as much sky as there is up there, how does such a thing as this happen? Practice, practice, practice. This is the Blue Angels doing what they do best at the Naval Air Station Oceana Air Show… being precise! Otherwise, this could result in a quantum consequence… two such objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
I’ve had a few folks who have asked me how I get shots like this. The answer: practice, practice, practice… sort of. Shooting at air shows is just fun, though it’s not like shooting a bucolic landscape from a tripod. “Bucolic.” Look that up in your Funk and Wagnall… then look up “Look that up in your Funk and Wagnall.” Confusing, isn’t it. Well, so was shooting images like this. After so many failed shots in terms of clarity, I had an epiphany. Apart from all the available modes to dial into a modern camera, they also have custom modes. My Canon has C1, C2, and C3. I have C1 set up in TV mode. That doesn’t mean television, but rather time value… shutter speed. I set it to 1/4000 of a second (C2 and C3 are set up for slower aircraft). The camera determines the ISO and f/stop to make that shutter speed work out to give me a crisp, sharp image. While that may make some images ‘noisy’ in the digital realm, DxO PureRAW 3, Adobe Camera RAW, On1, and Topaz are available to clean it up and bring out the detail. There is one last issue: set the camera to shoot at high-speed continuous. Here’s where practice comes in handy: tracking your subject with a heavy lens. I tracked the F/A-18E Super Hornet moving left to right. Here’s where practice doesn’t do one bit of good: before the aircraft close near, push the shutter release, continue to track, and hope for the best. This is about as best as best can get. And, yes, I’m happy about it.
A carefully constructed and crafted shot. I consulted the schedule, waited for the perfect day, set my focus and settings, and sure enough, it came.
IOW, I heard a train, ran my ass off, and forgot to turn off manual focus on the lens.
Coco is a young Pitt Bull that really enjoys her Friday outdoor adventures through the forest with me and a bunch of other dogs!
On final approach into RAF Lakenheath. The aircraft was one of twelve that deployed to Lakenheath in April and May to take part in exercises with the locally based F-15 Eagles and other NATO aircraft.
Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22A Raptor 02-4039 95th FS "Boneheads" Tyndall AFB, FL @ Thunder over Michigan AS, Detroit / Willow Run Airport, MI
"TABOR02" repositions from Spangdahlam AFB, Germany to RAF Mildenhall prior to a transatlantic crossing back home the following day.
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With a dearth of comparable/available imagery to go on…in fact, the only image I came across that’s similar & linked to below, this shows BP-26 being mated to the SA-8/AS-104 launch vehicle on Launch Complex 37B (LC-37B).
The radial configuration of the forward restraint straps of the Pegasus B/Pegasus 2 (micro)meteoroid detection satellite can be seen inside the cavity of the Command Module. I think the squarish structure to be two of the stowed/folded solar panels of the satellite.
Note: The above corrected description is based on input below. An obvious & total bonehead blunder on my part.
Despite having seen better days, the photograph has retained its gloss and is of amazing resolution.
Television footage of Pegasus 1 deployment:
Credit: Retro Space HD/YouTube
USAF F-22A Raptor (TY)
325th Fighter Wing / 95th Fighter Squadron "Boneheads"
Tyndal AFB, Florida, USA
She is a Brittany Spaniel and one of my favorite dogs to take pictures of on my hikes. She always has the greatest expressions on her face as she is bounding through the snow or running through a field. This was taken earlier in the week right after a massive dumping of snow up in the hills near Vancouver. There was about 1.5 ft of fresh powder from the day before and the dogs were going absolutely nuts in it! So fun to watch.
Sadly my young nephew has started to experience some bullying at school.
So ive taken it upon myself to train him in martial arts.
Our first lesson involved Jake trying to understand 'The eye of the tiger' in its simplest form and how to find it within.
This is infact the very moment he found it....
To be continued....
An F-22A Raptor, assigned to the 95th Fighter Squadron "Boneheads", 325th Fighter Wing, departs Nellis AFB during Red Flag 16-1.
Its been raining in LA all weekend, so i had time to catch up on sticks!
in the streets, thanks to bonehead: www.flickr.com/photos/bon3h3ad/6994807829
An F-22A Raptor, assigned to the Boneheads of the 95th Fighter Squadron, departs Nellis AFB. The Boneheads have since been disestablished.
55022 "Royal Scots Grey".
1Z30 : 0358 Bristol Temple Meads - Norwich (Pathfinder Tours - The Norfolk Napier).
Welwyn North - 1205 - 22/02/97.
Will it ever stop raining or should I forget this afternoon's Ballasts & put the camera away until 2021???
We were in the Los Angeles area on a short trip in August 2021. My wife gave me a pass to go to Clutters Park for a few hours. Excellent plane watching - it was good to see so many international flights back at LAX. Photography wise, the heat haze was pretty intense and I wasn't paying close enough attention to my camera settings - what a bonehead. I guess I'll need to return to LAX for more practice!
Colorado Springs, CO - I guess when you start the game with a pair of F-22 Raptors flying over Falcon Stadium, you can't help but down Navy by a score of 30-21. Go Air Force! Go Falcons!
These two magnificent aircraft belong to the 95th Fighter Squadron (nicknamed "The Boneheads" and "The Home of Mr. Bones"). The squadron motto is "Death with Finesse". I'm also told they were being flown by pilots with the callsigns "Blaster" (flight lead / right plane) and "Rum" (wingman / left plane). More information on the squadron can be found at: 95TH FIGHTER SQUADRON FACTSHEET
A photo of the Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl XLVIII chanpionship banner in Lumen Field, Seattle, Washington. And except for a bonehead play call the next year, there should be a second one beside it.
Saturday morning, Bobbie, the dogs and I were up to a challenge so we tackled the Copper Mine Brook hike (and, we were a hurting crew on Sunday). It offers a breathtaking view of the Bay of Islands in Western Newfoundland, and for anyone who ever wondered why this is called the Bay of Islands, they should take this hike. Unfortunately, the horizon was hazy and extended views were limited, though it was pretty cool having the ocean and sky blend into each other.
I performed a big bonehead move here by failing to include the left-most photo into this seven-photo-stiched pano (it should have been eight photos). It took so long to stitch these that I'm leaving it until I can replace it later....ha!
Alright...I'm persuaded. Perhaps it was not a well-thought out move, and a couple of people convinced me that sending photos down the photostream was a boneheaded idea.
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Perhaps these tiny butterflies are common elsewhere, but not here. I saw one last year, and this one this year, in a different garden. This skipper-sized butterfly was fearless. Landed on my hand and arm, and twice on my camera. At least it also landed on a nice flower in front of me.
We were in the Los Angeles area on a short trip in August 2021. My wife gave me a pass to go to Clutters Park for a few hours. Excellent plane watching - it was good to see so many international flights back at LAX. Photography wise, the heat haze was pretty intense and I wasn't paying close enough attention to my camera settings - what a bonehead. I guess I'll need to return to LAX for more practice!
Why didn't anyone want to ride on this bus?
Schmuck - NOUN
A foolish or contemptible person.
"you've really got to be some schmuck to fall for that one"
synonyms:
idiot · ass · halfwit · nincompoop · blockhead · buffoon · dunce · dolt · ignoramus · cretin · imbecile · dullard · moron · simpleton · clod · dope · ninny · chump · dimwit · nitwit · goon · Dumbo · dummy · dum-dum · dumbbell · loon · jackass · bonehead · fathead.
Just having a little humour.
A kind soul has left a selection of tinned food at Tyseley Station. Some homeless people do squat here overnight and I guess the intention is to give them a meal, I hope they get it before the platform is tidied up by a cleaning gang.
On the other side of town yesterday Bonehead Boris was pretending to dig a hole to kick off the workings for HS2, a broke country spending billions of pounds it does not have on a project it does not need.
A class 172 passes with a train which was officially cancelled.
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