Another Photography Thread

[Michael R.]

oh, that's cool :-)

 

cheers

 

Michael

[jon]

A Christmas visitor in my front yard:

 

Christmas day, up on the rooftop by Jon Nichols, on Flickr

 

 

[WaskiSquirrel]

A Christmas visitor in my front yard:

 

Christmas day, up on the rooftop by Jon Nichols, on Flickr

 

 

 

Thanks for the Christmas dinner!

[mauckcg]

Didn't know there was a picture thread. SCORE!

 

Sebring 2015.

 

Daytona 2016

[sexauerw]

I took this photo at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park in Alaska in 2007. The camera was a shirt-pocket size Pentax digital point-and-shoot.

 

 

And here's a photo that my wife took nearby with her Nikon D90.

[sexauerw]

During the Korean War my father was recalled to active duty in the Air Force and stationed at Walker Air Force Base in Roswell, New Mexico. So we all moved into an apartment in a "temporary" WWII barracks that had been converted into married officers' housing, it was about two hundred yards from the main runway centerline. While we were there the Air Force retired their B-29 bombers and replaced them with the then new B-36 "Peacemaker". There were three squadrons of eight planes each. These were very large aircraft, nearly the size of a 747, and had 10 engines, six pusher propellers and four turbojets. Really noisy, especially on takeoff. Our old barracks building shook badly every time a B-36 took off!

 

On a recent vacation to Arizona we stopped at the Pima Air Museum just South of Tucson and I saw one of the very few remaining B-36 planes. Here are a couple of photos that I took at the museum. It's difficult to make out the size of the plane from ground level photos so I added a couple of shots further down that I did not take so that you can see a better view of the plane.

 

 

B-36 Bomber in the foreground. Note the propellers facing the rear on the trailing edge of the wing, and the jet engine pod hanging under the wing.

 

From straight ahead you can see all 10 engines.

 

 

 

The "little" plane in this photo is a B-29! The B-36 pictured here is an early model that did not have the four jet engines. With a full fuel and bomb load it required an 18,000 foot runway to take off and there just weren't that many runways like that around. So the Air Force had to delay operations until the early planes could be modified to add the jet engines, which were used only for take-off. Once off the ground, the propeller engines were perfectly adequate.

[amberleadavis]

I'm so impressed with everyone's skills. These are frame worthy. Though the cubs are amazing.

[ParramattaPaul]

During the Korean War my father was recalled to active duty in the Air Force and stationed at Walker Air Force Base in Roswell, New Mexico. So we all moved into an apartment in a "temporary" WWII barracks that had been converted into married officers' housing, it was about two hundred yards from the main runway centerline. While we were there the Air Force retired their B-29 bombers and replaced them with the then new B-36 "Peacemaker". There were three squadrons of eight planes each. These were very large aircraft, nearly the size of a 747, and had 10 engines, six pusher propellers and four turbojets. Really noisy, especially on takeoff. Our old barracks building shook badly every time a B-36 took off!

 

On a recent vacation to Arizona we stopped at the Pima Air Museum just South of Tucson and I saw one of the very few remaining B-36 planes. Here are a couple of photos that I took at the museum. It's difficult to make out the size of the plane from ground level photos so I added a couple of shots further down that I did not take so that you can see a better view of the plane.

 

 

B-36 Bomber in the foreground. Note the propellers facing the rear on the trailing edge of the wing, and the jet engine pod hanging under the wing.

 

From straight ahead you can see all 10 engines.

 

 

 

The "little" plane in this photo is a B-29! The B-36 pictured here is an early model that did not have the four jet engines. With a full fuel and bomb load it required an 18,000 foot runway to take off and there just weren't that many runways like that around. So the Air Force had to delay operations until the early planes could be modified to add the jet engines, which were used only for take-off. Once off the ground, the propeller engines were perfectly adequate.

 

There is a Jimmy Stewart movie, 'Strategic Air Command', that features the B-36 and the later B47. Jimmy Stewart plays a professional baseball player and former WWII bomber pilot who gets called up during the early days of the Cold War (circa 1954). It is impressive to see an aircraft that large in that time flying, even on film.

[penrivers]

Dove.

[penrivers]

Crows.

[pen2paper]

! the colors on the dove! Beautiful!

[penrivers]

Thanks, Pen two paper, just playing with the slide in hue and saturation, reds , yellows , and magentas, btw happy new year to you and yours.

[jon]

I don't care much for winter, but sometimes the birds make it a little better. Last week:

 

Snow dove by Jon Nichols, on Flickr

 

 

I noticed on working with this one that a snowflake made a pretty good showing of its 6 sides.

 

Junco in the snow by Jon Nichols, on Flickr

[pen2paper]

see... winter IS beautiful!

 

on screen :-) Thanks Jon!

[penrivers]

Corner.

[penrivers]

Mezquite 2.

[penrivers]

Dove 2.

[usk15]

[amberleadavis]

You all are so impressive. Would you all mind if I downloaded the pictures and used them for backgrounds on my computer?

[penrivers]

No problem with me. I dont know the others.