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liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)and very rare in a photograph.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'!"
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)the pavement stripes aid in the lines of this photo, which even without that would be perfect already.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)When I saw that dog, at first, I had the crazy notion that the woman was walking a sheep.
alfredo
(60,074 posts)Crepuscular
(1,057 posts)Fall
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,629 posts)FreeState
(10,572 posts)Wat Rong Khun (aka The White Temple), Chaing Rai Thailand
Mira
(22,380 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 7, 2013, 08:36 PM - Edit history (2)
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)Callalily
(14,890 posts)alfredo
(60,074 posts)ConcernedCanuk
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On Lake Nipissing in North Bay Ontario
took 7 pix to wait for the boat to pass in front of the setting sun
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)I learned to drive on a Farmall Cub.
My uncle used it to drag a huge race track on the lot next door for the go-carts he bought for me and my cousin. That was my next driving lesson.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)Crepuscular
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JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)That's absolutely stunning. I caught myself staring at it.
Crepuscular
(1,057 posts)but I figured it would not qualify due to there being some residual sunset in the picture. I had a hard time coming up with a contest entry and you don't need to hold your breath, if it breaks the top 20 I'll be surprised!
Mira
(22,380 posts)MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Crepuscular
(1,057 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 26, 2013, 10:43 PM - Edit history (1)
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Celebration
(15,812 posts)(or T is for Trees, if we don't count the blank photo in the prior post)
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)alfredo
(60,074 posts)Celebration
(15,812 posts)alfredo
(60,074 posts)Callalily
(14,890 posts)Solly Mack
(90,770 posts)Bird (Shocking, I know)
Solly Mack
(90,770 posts)Cassowary
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)Background please. I need a sense of scale and orientation.
Mira
(22,380 posts)realized I had not cropped it, and only took one shot, so I have to go from memory.
It's a large plaque / sculpture on the wall in an entrance way near the harbor in Sarasota. It was a minimum of 3 feet wide. I was just walking along and there it was.
Then I turned the corner, and took some photos of the famous returning soldier kissing the nurse statue. This one I did crop, just to have a not so ordinary view of it.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)alfredo
(60,074 posts)rdking647
(5,113 posts)Honky Tonk
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ramapo
(4,588 posts)Bradley Mine, Harriman State Park, NY
Mira
(22,380 posts)The man of course "makes" the photograph by giving it perspective and credibility. Without the man it could be a macro on a gemstone, or a contemporary painting.
This is full of wonder.
RC
(25,592 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)groundloop
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ramapo
(4,588 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)Callalily
(14,890 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Quackers
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JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)Q is a stumper.
Looks like clockout time at the local quackery.
ramapo
(4,588 posts)I was too late for a P post
handmade34
(22,756 posts)(my tent at shelter)
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)The Goddess Of Speed graced the hoods of early Packard automobiles. Known casually to collectors as "the donut pusher", she's seen here in art form at the Packard's home town of Warren Ohio. This is in Packard Park near the Packard Music Hall next to the Packard Mansion and the National Packard Museum.
I myself worked 30 years until my retirement at Packard Electric Division of General Motors (later Delphi), including some time in the historic brick building where the very early cars were built.
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)A slightly reworked image of my friend's '64 Triumph TR4 under a black sky.
Callalily
(14,890 posts)photo is spectacular!
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)I know I do too much editing for the tastes of most. Perhaps it makes up for my limited photographic skills, but I truly enjoy seeing what I can come up with to make an image more interesting and appealing.
That TR4 is owned by my GF, but she lets me work on it. It's one half of a his/her pair that is completed with my own '71 Triumph TR6. As a retiree, her and the cars are the only reason I strive to survive winter. Betts' car is somewhat nicer than mine, but I'm not done and another spring is just around the corner:
April Dancer, star character of the '60s TV spy show "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E" drove one similar to hers:
alfredo
(60,074 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)Callalily
(14,890 posts)MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)Callalily
(14,890 posts)MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)Callalily
(14,890 posts)in colors.
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)...and all the people who like to clown around on dangerous toys.
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 7, 2013, 08:41 PM - Edit history (1)
During the '80s and '90s Jimmy Franklin was one of the hottest airshow acts on the circuit. He and his wing walker, Bobby Younken would thrill crowds in Franklin's highly modified Waco biplane. Jimmy Franklin was known for performing his stunts at low level, often pulling out of a loop with the wheels mere feet above the runway. Several times I would take friends to see the act and watch as they held their breath in what appeared to be a disaster so narrowly averted. After Franklin's solo flight, Bobby Younkin would take his perch on the wing and climb precariously about the plane as Franklin would put the Waco through a series of aerobatic maneuvers.
The "Masters of Disaster" team would follow up in a matching pair of Pitts 2S2 stunt planes, flying a hair raising choreographed routine. It was during this part of the act at a show in Canada in 2005 that the team met fate in a midair collision that took the lives of both performers. In the crowd were their children, who followed their dads on the circuit all their lives. Kyle Franklin and Amanda Younken became smitten with each other over the years and fell in love by the time of the fatal accident.
Later in 2009, they married and decided to take over the act. Franklin, who by then had become an experienced aerobatic pilot himself would emulate his dad's low altitude stunts, rolling the Waco down the runway at 20 feet above the pavement, or enter a loop that would recover only a few feet above the runway. His wing walker was his trusting wife Amanda. She would climb out of the cockpit without a safety strap, just like her late father, and proceed to wend her way through the wires and struts while Kyle put the lumbering biplane through it's paces. They called the act "Pirated Skies" and dressed as swashbucklers. It was during their act in 2010 that I took this image at the Cleveland National Airshow.
In such a business luck has to be a constant companion in the cockpit, and the following spring in Texas that luck ran short. During a low altitude stunt, and Amanda perched up on the wing, the engine failed. As Amanda scrambled back into the front cockpit, Kyle did his best to perform a dead stick landing. With little altitude or speed, he had no choice but to crash straight forward into a line of trees, causing serious injuries to both. Kyle suffered many fractures and burns, but survived. His wife wasn't as fortunate. She was flown to a hospital and entered a coma from which she would never recover. She was taken off life support two months later in May of 2011.
I would like to claim the letter Y for Amanda and her family on this day, for what was, what is, and what will now never be. Her brother Matt still performs his own airshow act, and Kyle Franklin vows to return with a solo act as his recovery allows, but I hope their poor mothers stay home. They've seen enough.
http://www.franklinairshow.com/Memorial%202.htm
groundloop
(11,519 posts)Geez I still remember watching Bobby and Jimmy fly at Oshkosh for many many years, they put on a hell of a show. I first saw Bobby when he was doing aerobatics in his Twin Beech, simply awesome. And I also can't forget how cool Jimmy's Waco was with a jet engine strapped underneath, it seemed like he could climb nearly vertically until he was out of sight. The year that Jimmy and Bobby were killed was the last year I went to Oshkosh (after going for something like 18 years in a row), damn it doesn't seem like I've been away for that long.
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)..and I imagine few but you and I would understand, was when he landed the Waco he would use the elevator and brakes to hold the tailwheel off the ground the entire length of his landing rollout. Maintaining this attitude, he then brought the plane to a complete stop at stage center and applied smoke with the engine roaring to keep that tailwheel up, as the plane sat there on two wheels.
Once I even saw him shut off the smoke and taxi off the runway with the tail still in the air, making turns left and right, until he was in his parking spot. Only then did he gently lower the tail and shut the engine down. That's like playing the violin while standing on a beach ball on one leg. I miss him and Art Scholl, another great airman who met his demise much too soon.
Airshows just aren't the same without the daredevils. The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds, with all their technical expertise, just aren't real barnstormers.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)(usually the subject matter transcends my being able to study the photo)
This is totally cool.
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)Don't know if I like to run into that on a night time hike with owls hooting.