Planes, Trains, & Automobiles

There was an airshow in Goodyear while I was in Arizona. Both my sister and my dad live in the flight path for Luke AFB so we're used to see jets all the time. But the Blue Angels were at the air show and that was a great surprise. None of us had seen them before. We had fun watching them zip across the sky and fly straight up into the heavens and then dive bomb back down to earth. Sometimes, they flew over us so low it seemed you could reach up and touch them. I took pictures, of course. I wish I'd had a longer lens!





I've been to one other airshow before and tried taking pictures there too. It's not that easy to take pictures of planes while they are flying. They don't stand still.

So yeah, a longer lens would definitely help. Taking pictures at an airshow is definitely a challenge. But at least it's fun to watch while you are trying!

This picture is of the Metro train. I took it a few years ago when I took a photography class. The instructor was an a$$. Basically he told us that painters were true artists and photographers only took photos because they couldn't paint. Here's where I rant a little. A lot of his projects had us taking pictures while not looking thru the lens or distorting what we saw. Now, to me, the whole idea of photography is to share my view with the rest of the world. To record how I see. How am I supposed to do that if I'm not looking! Anyway, I do have to say that some of the assignments made me step out of the box and that was a good thing. This is an out of the box picture for me. It was for an assignment on motion.

This was a little easier to compose and shoot but I only really had one chance to get it so I was lucky it came out.

Hmmm...so no pictures of cars yet. I was thinking of going to one of the local old car club events they have every Saturday down the street from me. There are some very cool cars there. Or maybe the races. Hmmm...