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23-OCT-2004 Brian Barnes

Above the Clouds *

Canon EOS 10D ,Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG ASP DF
1/90s f/6.7 at 35.0mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time23-Oct-2004 17:44:42
MakeCanon
ModelEOS 10D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length35 mm
Exposure Time1/90 sec
Aperturef/6.7
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programshutter priority (2)
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Guest 01-Feb-2005 03:33
The poem and photograph do seem to fit well together. To bad he died... he probably could have made a career out of poetry/writing.
Guest 30-Jan-2005 07:40
"High Flight" is a poem written by John Magee (typoed it in my first comment). He was a RCAF officer killed in action during World War II. The poem he had written was found in his foot locker when they were packing up his personal effects.

I saw this picture and the poem fit perfectly.
Guest 30-Jan-2005 05:03
Beautiful poem Dean. Where did you find it?
Guest 29-Jan-2005 21:52
High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

- Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
- No. 412 squadron, RCAF
- KIA 11 December 1941