On Aviation and Photography:
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." -- Amelia Earhart
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” - - Ansel Adams
UPDATED: September 19, 2010
Hi, My name is Bill and I am updating my homepage to reflect a wonderful event in my life...marriage, September 18, 2010, to my best friend Tara...known to many of you as auntietk here on Renderosity.
We "met" shortly after I joined Renderosity in August 2008. We share a love for photography and indeed all types of art.
We live north of Seattle and enjoy getting to share photographic excursions and information with other Renderositians ( is "Renderositians" even a word? ). LOL
As for me, it seems like I've been taking pictures all my life but I didn't get serious enough to purchase my first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera until May 2008. In May 2009 I upgraded from an Olympus E-510 to an Olympus E-30 with a wide variety of lenses.
My subject areas of interest include absolutely everything but with a frequent return to airplanes, cars, tanks, etc., ...or as Tara says, machines that make lots of noise;-)
If you are curious, I am pictured above in a Grumman Corsair on a taxiway of the Kansas City Downtown Airport. I used to fly and train others to fly airplanes. That will explain my frequent forays into the world of aviation. Last but by no means least, thanks to Pannyhb for introducing me to Renderosity. The moment I saw it I was hooked.
Fine print: Yes, the photo above is a photo manipulation:-)
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Comments (33)
danapommet
Thanks for the link to Rob's shot. I love this shot of him, as he is taking his shot. Very complementary. Dana
Buffalo1
It doesn't get any better than Rob posing with a Martin B-10. A fine capture, Bill.
anahata.c
I love this shot for its music...another dynamic, vital capture of planes in a museum. You have such a feel for this...You may have just been trying for a shot of your friend shooting planes, but you wound up getting this highly angular, musical juxtaposition of 2 planes interacting with each other, those wonderful shadows in the background (visual counterpoint), the platform near the left-top, that "stuff" (ignorance alert!!!) on the right-top that looks like they're storing gym equipment (lol---though maybe it's just painting on the walls), and the wonderful line of the railing on the floor and the stark green carpet (?) against the floor & in contrast with the yellow wing---which is one of the most lit portions of this shot. A real interplay of line, shape & hue---almost an abstract, in its music and vectors. And there are little things, like the propeller of the front plane seeming to touch the back wing of the higher one. These things had to be in your inner eye, if not your outer; and together (I was gonna say, "it spells 'mother'")---together it's a beautiful museum shot, with that muted lighting & wonderful interaction of parts, lights & surfaces. You're closer to Tara, aesthetically, than you may know; and I fell in love with this shot when it first went up. (And what does "hog" refer to? I'm not a plane expert, so if it has something to do with the model, or that pilots used to be called "hogs," or dayton is known for its pork, well then I'm out of the loop!)