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Some shots from the New Year's eve and the early minutes of 2026, shot from Arlington, Va. I am going back to shoot the Washington Monument again from a different angle, without foreground or background. The lighting will go on until Jan 5th evening.
Some shots from the New Year's eve and the early minutes of 2026, shot from Arlington, Va. I am going back to shoot the Washington Monument again from a different angel, without foreground or background. The lighting will go on until Jan 5th evening.
So glad you were there Douglas!
Happy New Year to you also!
I was glued to the "boob tube" looking for you as the local tv people were panning through the crowds. Saw a few photographers using tripods and very long lenses from the Mall area.
These are fantastic images! Some of "thee" best I have ever seen of the Washington Monument for ANY celebration!
Again SUPER photography!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
So glad you were there Douglas!
Happy New Year to you also!
I was glued to the "boob tube" looking for you as the local tv people were panning through the crowds. Saw a few photographers using tripods and very long lenses from the Mall area.
These are fantastic images! Some of "thee" best I have ever seen of the Washington Monument for ANY celebration!
Again SUPER photography!
Dan
Thank you Dan! I was in my usual spot (the Netherlands Carrion) for this typical view. I was very surprised there were only around 40-50 people there, quite unlike the 4th of July crowd. When I pulled in the parking lot at the Marine Memorial about 10:30, I didn't see a single car! I messed up the focus on some of the shots even though I already switched to MF mode once AF confirmed the focus, I must have moved something. I took some video of the fireworks with my iPhone but the quality is no good even at 4K. The distance is just too far for the phone. I will try shooting some 4K video with my camera on Jan 5 when they shoot more fireworks.
First off, Happy New Year to the Mustang A to A family.
If any of you are interested, I'll be posting my astro converted R7 in Buy and Sell tomorrow. I had it converted to full spectrum and AA filter removal by Spencer's Camera in Utah in December 2024, and have now sent them one of my R5 bodies for the same conversion. The R7 has 1,000 shutter actuations and 3,000 images in all (verified by the ShutterCheck app). I'll be asking $1,000 to take into account the conversion. Comes with a battery and charger. Let me know if you're interested. Body is in super clean condition. Unfortunately, I no longer have the box.
Chandler and I had a "MAMMOTH" Boeing 777 assignment yesterday. We left early yesterday morning and got home around 11 last night. its of challenges to navigate, but we got everything possible and then some. I loaded every conceivable piece of equipment that I thought we might need and we added a few things on the way, like a DJI OSMO 3. There was no room for error or hesitation on this shoot, the FAA arrived last night and will sign the aircraft off today, then it's schedule to flight test the rest of the week.
Chandler is so great at technology, I had him pairing stuff and doing tutorials as we drove to the hangar, he's an incredible assistant. We shot stills, video with the Ronin RS4 Pro/Canon R5II and the DJI OSMO 3. Shot a lot with the Hasselblad, we used it all. We lit the plane with dozens of Lume Cubes because normal lights would have been in our compositions. Big as a 777 is, it was still very challenging to get some angles. This freighter is state of the art, it has so many features that no other freighters have. They designed and installed a "9G Wall"at the end of the upper freight compartment, it's 8" thick and has a small door on each side for access from the cockpit and "Supernumerary" (a word that I had never heard before) compartment. That area has crew rest compartments and a row of very comfortable reclining seats for the crew, the galley is in that compartment as well. The 9G Wall obviously is intended to prevent the cargo pods from crushing everything in the nose of the aircraft in the event of something catastrophic happening. I guess anything greater than 9G's and all bets are off.......
As far as a 9G catastrophe, when I was doing safety engineering for Space Shuttle payloads, we had to validate our equipment to be mounted in the payload bay would sustain 25G loads with no failures. The extreme 25G loading requirement is mostly to provide a 2x factor of safety. I don't think NASA ever expected the astronauts to experience 25 Gs. I remember the Payload Safety Panel chairman talk about how he loved German engineering because they overbuilt everything.
I'm beginning to work through everything that we captured yesterday, this is the finished freight compartment. I used the X2DII on whatever was appropriate, the detail is incredible.
I captured that at F/16 with the 35-100. I have been on the fence over the 20-35, but the more I shoot the 35-100E I really don't think I'm in a hurry for that lens. That is kind of a good thing because it's $6,000. Funny, yesterday I had the 15 to 35 on the R5II for a cockpit shot and at 15mm, it was not as wide as the 35-100E at 35. Hasselblad is rumored to have a third "E" Series lens in the works, I hope it's a 100-200E zoom.
I'm taking it air to air tomorrow evening with a new $1.7M Cirrus.
Looove that Cub! Great video for the family album.
Reminds me of flying with my young son, about this age. We would put him in the front seat of the 180 when we went on family trips. I had to get fuel and pulled over at Franklin, Va. On downwind I saw a B-25 parked on the ramp. Oh boy, a warbird to check out!
I kept a tight, power-off pattern and announced short final. Keenly focused ahead, I didn't see my son's straight little legs up on the wheel. There was a lot of strange resistance on the controls as I began to round out and I looked over to see him grinning, pushing against the yoke with his feet.
"Charliegetyourfeetoffthecontrols!"
The shot of adrenaline quickly dissipated and we parked, and hopped out on the ramp at the FBO. Two old-timers were at the counter, laughing so hard they had been wiping their eyes. The Unicom speaker squawked. One of them managed to get out, "Charlie....would you like a bag of peanuts?" We stared at the old guys, "How do you know his name?"
They both started laughing to tears again. "You had the mic keyed when..."
That's hilarious! My Granddaughter Gracie was flying with me in the 182, we were going on a short cross country to have lunch. We were just droning along enjoying the flight, she was in the co-pilot seat and I had her car seat mounted in the seat. I guess I was looking out the side window and she reached up with both hands on the yoke to pull herself up a bit. The nose of the Skylane shot up in about a 3G pull, startled us both and she immediately just let go of the yoke which resulted in the opposite reaction. I spend a lot of time going over what not to touch now and clearing the controls...........
Ttown Aubie wrote:
Sounds like a very complex assignment Jim. Can't wait to see some images.
Definitely was Joe. The client couldn't be present so he sent me a couple of pages of shots that he wanted. We couldn't have the aircraft until mid afternoon but we got there early just to see what we were up against and to get all the gear ready so we could hit the ground running. This was one of those no second chances kind of assignments.
