Evan's photography phun (4 Viewers)

[evangilder]

There you go, a new wrinkle in your brain.

Today I shot the departure of the EC-121 from Camarillo. The EC-121 was the electronic combat version of the Lockheed Constellation. At one time, Camarillo Airport had 2 Connies. One of them was sold a few years a go to become the Breitling Connie. This one left to go to the Yanks Air Museum in Chino and will likely never fly again. Sad to see it go.

 

[Gnomey]

She is a real beauty! Nice shots!

 

[evangilder]

Thanks. I think it would take some work to make a Connie look ugly. There were a lot of sad faces around Camarillo as it left.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I'll bet.
As always Eric, your shot more than do her justice.

 

[evangilder]

While I am sad that it won't fly again, knowing that it's at Chino is somewhat comforting. It'll be at the Yanks Air Museum on permanent static display. I hope they make the inside available to see too. It's quite something inside. The APSoCal crowd worked this one great. APSoCal is Aviation Photographers of Southern California. We're a local photo club. The coverage from our group was awesome. I think we captured about every possible angle of the aircraft from departure to touchdown. It was probably one of the most well documented aviation events in Southern California for quite some time. It makes me look forward to the Shuttle coverage when they bring that in.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice pictures Eric of a very graceful machine. Often did role changes on these kites when working in the Middle East in the mid 60s.

 

[evangilder]

Thanks guys. They are beautiful planes.

 

[Wayne Little]

Sweet pics Eric!

 

[Crimea_River]

Lovely!

 

[evangilder]

My wife, Laura. picked up a new t-shirt for me. I think it is appropriate for this forum.

 

[Shinpachi]

Nice looking Eric

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I need one of those shirts.

 

[Gnomey]

 

[GrauGeist]

Love the shirt, Eric!

Perhaps an engraved wooden plaque that reads: "Flying gives me wood" would be a good one too!

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

Lol, nice T-shirt Eric.


Wheels

 

[evangilder]

My wife is normally more conservative than that, so it was a surprise to get it, but I love it. Obviously, there are some places that I won't be able to wear it, but the airport isn't one of those places.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Great stuff Eric, I recon we should all have one.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Yeah Vic. I think so too.

 

[Messy1]

Great shirt!

 

[evangilder]

So Thursday morning, I woke up at 2:30 AM and couldn't go back to sleep. I got up for a while and decided to do some drawing to relax and hopefully be able to go back to bed. Well, I didn't make it back to bed, but I finished the sketch. I e-mailed it to the subject of the sketch and he fell in love with it. So now, I have sold my first drawing! I transferred the sketch to better art paper and matted the sketch for him. So sometimes, insomnia does pay.