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Photo of the Day January 2023
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from last week when the sky turned everything pink.
This is what we did too: if I don't recall too badly, the sea lions should be near Vancouver Island
under the bridge
1/250 s f/2.2 @ 28mm
The course was called Accelerated Free Fall, and I think it's the most mind blowing experience I've ever had. Because I was the newby I had to wait for all the others to jump out, so was the last one, with my jumpmaster following right after me. The photo is a still from his GoPro, and one of the 10 jumps I made while taking the course.
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From May 2021
Photographic Sensitivity (ISO): 32
Lens Model: iPhone 12 Pro back triple camera 4.2mm f/1.6
Shutter Speed Value: 1/2053
I did a couple of hundred jumps back in the 70's - what a blast! Wish I had something like a GoPro back then.
A beautiful, dramatic sunset here in Seattle last night.
Ma Nature handed me a couple gifts yesterday, but this one was by far, the best.
Sunset - Cary, NC - 1/10/2023 - iPhone 13PM
Sunset - Cary, NC - 1/10/2023 - iPhone 13PM
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Mother Nature was very good to both of us yesterday.
Nothing spectacular, I just thought the effect was little cool.
Maybe it isn’t?😁
Photo taken from Crete, Greece in 2012
Canon Ixus 115 HS - 5 mm, f/2.8, iso 160, 1/60s
Scaffolding, as it's done in Ethiopia. 2011
Broader setting of the tree posted yesterday. This is a lesser known remote setting within the Canaveral National Seashore. The house, Seminole Rest, built in the 1800's on top of an Indian midden (oyster shell/trash mound) that accumulated over a thousand years. While it provided a great foundation for the house and raised it well above the flood level for the bordering lagoon, it may have actually preserved the midden. Many of the nearby middens were destroyed in the early 1900's as they raided the oyster shells for roadbeds. Today, the public has to "Stay on Path" as can't cut across exploring the mounds.
Wowzers! Indeed a blast; it's the one thing that will stay with me forever. I wish I could just as often as I want, but the club is run by its members, doing it for free, and therefore only on weekends. And with just 1 plane, 1 pilot there's a lot of waiting. A hell of a lot of waiting. So much so that I don't jump anymore. One could do basejumps, off a cliff or mountaintop...but alas, the highest point in my country is 322.4 metres (1,058 ft)
It was a neat time to be jumping back then as the sport was undergoing a radical change with the first broader adoption of the parafoil chute. We did all of our own chute packing, which was fun. My buddy - USMC with a Silver Star from 'Nam - had an unfortunate accident, hitting power lines. He got some bad burns and spent months in the hospital - but he went right back to jumping.
That's quite amazing that he went back to jumping. People: take note; this you will want to do!
Save for accidents like this one. Yeah, it can be dangerous, although my instructor told me had jumped over 3,000 times, only to open his spare twice. And never an accident, not even a sprained ankle.
Yeah, I always thought the plane ride was more dangerous than the jumping - I was glad to get out the door!
Two versions of the same image, from October of 1975.
Lunch Creek, Logan's Pass, Glacier National Park, MT
Schneider Xenar 127mm lens, V-II TypeS (C-41) process damaged film (4x5), ƒ22, 1/50 sec.
Lunch Creek, Logan's Pass, Glacier National Park, MT
Schneider Xenar 127mm lens, V-II TypeS (C-41) process damaged film (4x5), ƒ22, 1/50 sec.