gerov wrote:
Amazing, Jim. Very nice tonality in that one. Did you just take the Blad or did you also use your R5IIs?
Thanks Gerov,
I took both cameras and they performed beautifully.I have been going over the possibilities related to this assignment for several months. Just about every night since I was asked to join this expedition, I woke up at some point with an image in my head. I went through every possible scenario/challenge that I could imagine, it's just my way of dealing with the pre-assignment stress, always has been. One of the images that I imagined was a series of cockpit perspectives, daytime and nighttime using the Hasselblad and the R5II. Those shots are the reason I went ahead and acquired the 20-35E. Once I have delivered all the images to my client I'll post some of the cockpit shots. One that I just finished processing is a 3 second exposure of the flight deck as we departed Washington DC, at 10:30pm, sharp as a tack, handheld. Had I not put together the Hasselblad system months ago, it's unlikely that particular image would exist.
I gotta give credit to the R5II as well, we cleared the coast of Nova Scotia and headed toward Bodo, the cabin lights were turned off and everyone was drifting off to sleep. Everyone but me, as I looked out the big oval window next to my seat I was greeted with a deep blue sky awash with stars, contrasted by the black ocean below. Just above the horizon the Aurora Borealis danced along a faint layer of clouds. The icing on the cake was a tin ribbon along the horizon that was the hint of dawn in the direction of Norway. The whole scene was absolutely mesmerizing. I didn't hold out a lot of hope as far as capturing it, but I grabbed the R5II/24-105Z and took a whack at it. We were at FL410 doing 740 mph but everything seemed to be perfectly in sync so I sent the next 30 minutes capturing one of the most beautiful scenes I have ever been Blessed to witness. The shots are breathtaking.
May 12, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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