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Working a New Experience
I’m working the first airshow with media credentials, a first for me. I’m down at Planes of Fame for their amazing show 4-5 May shooting for EAA Warbirds (really great folks!). I arrived at Planes of...
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Lightning Strikes Chino!
Ceiling broke and the winds picked up, there was three flights with three photo platforms each to get all the photographers air time. That meant we had about five minutes on station with 23 Skidoo and...
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As previously posted, I was part of the media day at Planes of Fame for their upcoming airshow, Lightning Strikes Chino. Not until late last night did I remember I shot video with the Moose Cam...
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Planes of Fame Airshow this Weekend!
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10 Tips – Putting Action into your Stills
This is a very common and understandable question that I receive. I was asked it a lot this week as many are heading out to airshows. So I thought I’d cap the most common ways I like to put action in...
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You Simply Never Know
Jake & I got the Sunrise Pass for the Planes of Fame airshow and so glad that we did! You have to get to the flight line by 05:00 which is some time before the sun rises so you have some time to...
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Tripod Holes
I DIDN’T even see this photo! One of the BEST parts of the weekend was shooting with my favorite partner, our son Jake. He is always looking for the something different photographically to tell the...
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Banzai Steve
I can’t get a sharp image to save my soul when I’m laughing! So last weekend at the Plane of Fame airshow, when I first heard “Banzai” exploding behind me, it at first startled me. When I turned...
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Move ‘Em Out!
There were some GREAT reinactors at the Planes of Fame airshow, we’d heard about the German officer the day before so when I walked over with Steve on Sunday morning, I found him. He had a great...
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We Are Our Best Teacher!
Getting better, that is a constant theme in just about everything photographic. Is it just human nature or is it just the nature of photographers? Whatever it is, getting better at our craft is a huge...
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Manipulating Backgrounds
The subject is the one element in the frame we usually have a handle on. It’s the main character, the star of our photo, the reason why we stopped our lives to make the photograph. But what about the...
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PRS Time & The Plot Thickens!
PRS (Pylon Race Seminar/School), the precursor for the Reno Air Races (The Fastest Motor Sport in the World) in Sept starts this week. Ever since my first PRS in 2008, I’ve not missed a one and in...
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Going After that 1st Experience
Be it a new species, new location or new aircraft, if it’s new to me and I want it in my files, I don’t stop until I get the shot for that moment that satisfies that desire. I saw and got a couple of...
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Real Quick Hello!
With days starting at 04:45 and ending at 01:00, you might say we’re jumpin and it’s great! PRS is such a great time with planes, pilots and friends. Been shooting alot with D4, (including Di-GPS)...
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Planes of Fame Airshow this Weekend!
Cya There! Say Hi, stop me if you have a question.
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Do You See a Halo?
There are times when I think I read things into a photograph that only I see. This is not a good thing because when it comes to communicating, you want to reach as many as possible. We must realize...
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It’s Not Magic, It’s Vision
Paying dues, it’s how the biz operates. The amazing opportunities that seem to come my way I wish were just presented to me on a silver platter but such is not the case. There is a ying to the yang...
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The Start of a Long Weekend
Sharon and I love the 4th, the vast majority of them being spent in Mammoth that does small town celebrations in the best of traditions. This 4th we had the opportunity to be at a hangar party in...
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A Meeting with Freedom
“Wanna go flyin?” When Warren Pietsch asks standing next to his Waco at his airport, you grab your camera and go! “Wanna see the world from a different perspective?” Winner of the 2005 “Bill Barber...
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Photography Just Happens
As the sun slipped below the horizon, the Waco & Cub were tucked back in their hangar and the mosquitoes took over the skies. I feel in love with the North Dakota landscape! While it seems flat,...
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