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You know Eric, I went up a few months ago, and it was cold, hazy and turbulent (I wish I had a buck for every time my head hit the canopy!). All my photos looked like poop and I didn't take nearly enough photos anyway...but, I was up there and wouldn't trade that for anything!

So next time you're up there, take a moment to have pity on us poor earthbound souls!

And, I think your shots came out great!
 

My thoughts exactly Gary!
 
Thanks guys. Every flight, at some point I take a moment to try and take it all in.

On one cold, gorgeous October morning last year, I was in the back of Mark Matye's T-28, shooting photos of three other T-28s. I paused for a moment to take it all in. It was at that moment, I think Mark was doing the same. Over the intercom, he said "You know Eric, we are 2 of the luckiest guys alive". I couldn't have agreed more.

I have been extremely fortunate to be able to get up in the old warbirds and experience what few ever get a chance to do. It has truly been a dream come true and I love every minute of it. I am also thankful that I can share some of the experience through my photos with the world through the magic of technology.
 
Getting up early has it's advantages. I shot these at 4:30 AM in the back yard. Like the old days, manual focus, shutter at 1/500 (shutter priority), ISO 200.
 

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Like em Eric
Now thats the sign of a good photographer. go to the rockies or grand canyon getting a spectacular shot is somewhat easier than going into your back garden and making the ordinary into something special
Excellent work Eric hard to pick between the sillhouette shots Im leaning slightly towards the second image for me it has a heavier bottom so stands within the frame better but hey Its only my opinion and who am I to analise an expert snapper
The moon image is super and interesting to see it shot from over the pond the angle is suprisingly different considering its 250,000 miles away and we or only 4000 apart
I love your work Eric
 
Thanks Lee. I saw the moon this morning through some real clean air, so I figured I would get out and snap off a few. The moon with the trees was something that I kind of stumbled on by accident. The branches are all over that patch of sky, and auto-focus was grabbing the branches. I switched over to manual for the moon shot, then went back to the branches, manually focused and snapped again. Kind of artsy-fartsy, but what the heck. 8)
 
Great stuff Eric I just liberated a ton of wallpapers off of your website. Love them! The Red Mig dozens of pages back is a great looking plane!
 
Cheers guys. I spent the week up in the Sierras with the family. We explored some old mines and ghost towns, hiked the back country and took a gondola to the top of Mammoth mountain (11,000 feet!). I am going through a weeks worth of shots, but have a few to share. Here they are, in no particular order.
 

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Great shot of the moon and the "lawn fish"!

It's cool how the glass is still intact in those buildings, it almost looks like someone is maintaining them.

When we explored the old ghost towns out in the desert, the glass in the windows and the fuel pumps were broken, but not from vandals, but by sonic booms.

Awesome shots, Eric...thanks for sharing them!
 
That was a daylight shot of the moon near Horseshoe Lake. The lawn fish is actually in the water! The water was real clear and still and the fish was just lounging. How tempting it was to find a net!

The buildings are in Bodie, up in the upper elevations of the Sierras, at about 10,000 feet up. It is a state historic park with quite a history. I have a ton of photos from Bodie that I am going through.
 
There's a story behind the "lawn fish"...and it also involves a photo with super clear water and a fat rascal that was tempting to just dive in and grab. But the story also involves *someone* falling in while taking the photo and the (ex) wife falling in too...(I saved the camera)

Bodie rocks!! Did you get any of the Cemetary?
 
Actually that fish was in the safest place for him to be. He was just outside the hot creek hatchery. So he could get the remnants of food and be safe from us hungry fishermen!

We didn't get to the cemetery in Bodie this trip. We wandered up the bluff about as far as we could up Green street before heading toward the Standard Mill and back down Main Street. It was unusually warm for Bodie in August, about 86 F. I took about 300 pictures in Bodie.
 
WOW Eric!!! Those are spectacular! Makes me wish I weren't going to Dolly Wood in the morning so I could go out and shoot barns and old roads but I promised some friends I'd go sooooooooo. I will have fun riding the roller coasters and the water rides but that's not where my heart will be.
 
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