Granted, it’s been almost a week since the Blues flew at SeaFair 2010, but I do have a day job after all, and picking and processing photos is a time consuming affair. Regardless, here are some of the highlights from the fun on 7-Aug-2010 at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
Weather was pretty iffy, but the Blues still few a program to the delight of thousands. Here are some of those photos:
I took a few shots of some UAVs at the Museum of flight, for my friends on the Radio Control forums.
Lockheed Martin RQ-3A Dark Star
Insitu Areosonde Laima
Fieseler Fi 103 “V1 Buzz Bomb”
Between myself and my daughter, we took almost 2000 images at SeaFair 2010.
In this blog entry, I will be uploading a handful that really struck me as interesting or good. Here is the first, and so far, my favorite photo from the weekend.
I shot this photo on Sunday, as they were making the final airfield flyover, before landing.
My next favorite is this one, which my daughter shot with a 50mm lens, standing on a chair, as they made their final flyover, before landing. I think she has an eye for photography. I checked the rest of the shots in the set, and there were no rapid frame pics, she shot this single frame. I love the composition. Lighting was terrible on Saturday when she shot this, but it still worked!
Shot by my daughter on Saturday from the Museum of Flight Cafe, as the Blues returned to land.
Tonight, the Northern Lights were visible at latitudes low enough, to be seen in the Puget Sound.
Armed with my trusty Bogen carbon fiber tripod, my 17mm F/2.8 lens and a heart full of hope, I headed out to part of the county with a Northern facing beach. A few others were there to try to take in the spectical.
Sadly fires burning in Canada to the north, provided enough haze and smoke to obscure any chance of seeing this great sight. But that doesn’t mean I might not catch it on the camera (stranger things have happened).
Tonight, wasn’t one of them, BUT I did goof around with long exposures, lighting and moving objects.
This is what I captured:
Last shot. Reduced the time and waited for some departing traffic to pass me. A car came over the road in the opposing direction, but did not have it’s high-beams on, so shot was no totally washed out.
This has given me some ideas for other night photography projects. One I’d like to try is a set of long-exposure time lapse pics of the helicopters. So far, the opportunity has not yet presented itself.
Yes, Sunday was a great day for a ride. Met up with some pals in Gorst (armpit of Puget Sound) and we headed across the Hood Canal Bridge.
Oh.. we tried to cross the bridge, instead we spent a little time waiting for one of the NAVY subs to transit the canal, which requires them to open the bridge.
Ripping the Testing Grounds
Rumbling down Hwy 101
Took a little jaunt around the ‘East Side’ of Puget Sound.
Hopped the ferry to Seattle.
Stopped by Ducati Seattle for a BBQ. Picked up some new coffee mugs, and hit the road.
Sailed south to the Museum of Flight and renewed my family membership. Looking forward to seeing the Blue Angles this coming weekend at the museum!
Continued south to Eatonville, where I took in a serious helping of twisty roads.
Headed back north, met up with a buddy from work. Him, his dad and myself went to the Ram and harassed the waitresses. Headed home from there.
Oh, and I decided to try my luck at compressing the video into a Flash Video File, here is how that worked out: