15-JUL-2007
America's Finest
The Thunderbirds are the USAF air display team - and they are amazing!
This shot is not a trick - those planes really are that close and flying at 400 mph!!!!
Taken at today's Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.
A few more pics from there still to process. Meanwhile to see how it looked with the sun out,
please visit the maestro,
Neil Nordic, who was there Saturday. His pictures are so sharp! dammit!
Cherhill Down
I have been having an Internet nightmare! - nearly 48 hours offline -well as good as!
Work is falling behind and I'm so sorry I haven't commented back to all those kind Pbasers
who have been so generous on my pictures.
I had to travel to Swindon to find wifi available somewhere suitable for working!
Took this the other night - but it will look like this later this evening!!
Wiltshire is wonderful! But it's a secret, so don't tell anyone!!
11-JUL-2007
Poppy Field
Bit of a rush upload. Sorry I haven't been commenting much lately.
Another early start tomorrow.
Movin On
I sometimes delude myself that beneath this boring exterior, I am actually a Rock Star!
And who better to be than my hero, Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company)?
My favourite Bad Company track, 'Movin On' describes the feeling of freedom that fuels my delusion, or perhaps I should just have been a pilot!: (The song rocks too!)
I get up in the morning and it’s just another day
Pack up my belongings, I’ve got to get away.
Jump in to a taxi and the time is gettin’ tight
I go to keep on movin’ I got a show tonight
Mmmm,
And I’m movin’ on, movin’ on from town to town
Movin’ on, baby, yeah I’m never touchin’ the ground. Yeah.
I check into the ticket place with half an hour to go
headin’ for the boarding gate I’m feelin’ pretty low
Fifteen minutes later, I’m sittin’ on my plane
fastened in my safety belt I’m takin off again
And I’m movin’ on, movin’ on from town to town
Movin’ on, baby, yeah I’m never touchin’ the ground.
And I’m movin’ on, movin’ on from town to town
Movin’ on, I can’t seem to stop now.
I got to move on, move on from town to town.
I got to move on, I never seem to slow down.
Oh, I got to move on, move on from town to town.
I got to move on, I never seem to slow down.
Mini Country
My entry for the T.I.T.C. theme 'My Country' - please click
#here#
The Mini:
A British Icon
Popular around the World
Designed by man of Greek/German descent
Now made by a German company
In Oxford and Swindon
The Rain:
Pure Wiltshire!
04-JUL-2007
Natural ...
.... light that is!
So fed up with the weather just had to put a camera in my hand!
But it was a chance to play with metering modes and PS techniques, too.
03-JUL-2007
Lansdown Monument and Hercules
Just caught the briefest of late sun between the storms.
A Hercules plane from RAF Lyneham was practising circuits.
I have to own up to a little PS jiggery-pokery though to have got the two together!!
