Week 47 of 52 – Theme: “Feeling Nostalgic” P-40 Warhawk

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Week 47’s theme of “Feeling Nostalgic” happened to coincide with a Photowalking Utah Photowalk to the Hill Aerospace Museum in Ogden, Utah. I thought it would be a perfect place to find a shot to reflect nostalgia seeing how it’s full of old planes and related things from long ago.

The P-40 Warhawk 3 shot HDR @ 2EV

The museum has three main display areas which are two large hangars and an extensive outdoor area. The two indoor buildings are divided by era with the first one housing the beginnings of flight up to the Korean war (with a few Vietnam era planes thrown in due to space limits) and the second displays the jet age to modern times.

Wright Flyer replicas, the first Wright Flyer is hanging from the ceiling. 6 shot HDR @1EV

P-47 Thunderbolt

P-47 Thunderbolt

B-17 and P-51

B-26

P-40 Warhawk this is the color version of the Theme shot!

The Korean War era Bell TH-13 “Sioux” Or as I like to call it the “M.A.S.H.” helicopter!

For info about that reference look up the MASH TV show. 

The F-86 Sabre one of my favorite planes of all time! (notice the “MASH” tv show style sign, a nice touch!)

C-47 WW-II cargo plane on display between the two hangars outside, this was the first time I’ve walked back to this area, they also had a F-4 and F-16 static display models (the kind you often see on pedestals outside museums/airfields.)

Entering the second hangar we find displays that cover the Jet Age up to modern times. Many of the displays were recently re-arranged and you can now walk around many of them where as before they were all packed tightly against the wall and viewing angles were more limited. I didn’t have the time to fully explore as I would have liked, but I still got a few shots I liked.

The Kaman Husky Helicopter I call it the “Egg Beater” notice the Canberra Bomber in the background.

Cabin detail of the “Husky”
and yes that is an SR-71 in the background!

The mighty SR-71!!

 

MiG-15 close up

MiG-15

The F-105 and MiG-15 display next to the new Vietnam War exhibit.

The mighty CH-53 Pavelow

If you look closely you’ll see some of my fellow walkers in the aisle.

The OV-10 Bronco

Looking past the Sea King and CH-53 to the F-16 on the far end of the hangar.

The A-10 “Thunderbolt II” named after the P-47 but affectionately nicknamed the Warthog due to it’s less than supermodel looks…

A-10 Head-on showing its massive 30mm gatling cannon and a display model of the gun underneath.

the Devils ride!

Be afraid, be very afraid!

Next stop is the outdoor display as the museum closing time approached.

Outside the Museum entrance.

B-1b Lancer

The rising Moon was a stroke of good luck…

14 panel (3 shots each) HDR Panorama of the entrance road to the museum showing the main line up of aircraft.

B-29 “Hagarty’s Hag”

A-7 Corsair II outside the entrance.

Sunset! The museum closes at 4pm no matter what so it’s only possible to get evening golden hour shots in the winter.

We say goodbye with this sunset view from behind the B-29 Superfortress “Hagarty’s Hag”

Thanks so much for stopping by today I hope you’ve enjoyed the images!

Please come back soon as I catch up with a few more themes before the holidays..

Happy Shooting!

Howard

Week 46 of 52 Theme: “Symmetry” – “They Go Up!”

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Symmetry! A simple enough theme for the week, and yet I had a hard time conceptualizing what to shoot for it which as I’ve slowly learned throughout this past year means that I just need to stop thinking and get out and explore.  Which is exactly what I did, I drove downtown to my wifes work to take her out to lunch after which I planned on taking a photowalk in the city to see what I could find, well I didn’t have to wait long or look too hard since the shot presented itself as I was walking down the stairwell to the parking garage to get my sunglasses out of the car. I noticed that the two flights of stairs I had to go down looked pretty symmetrical, and if they looked cool as only two flights going down, what if I turned around and looked at the 10 floors going up?

It’s funny that as I was shooting this I thought of one of my all time favorite movie lines! it’s from Ghostbusters and it cracks me up every time I think of it!

Even though I knew I had my shot I still went walking downtown and got my back up shots just in case I had totally blown the stairwell shot, this fountain caught my eye.

I love backlight!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit today I hope you have a great day and that you’ll come back soon to see my next set of images.

Happy Shooting!

Howard

 

Week 45 of 52 – Theme: “Black and White Portrait” Pensive…

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I love Black and White images, it’s not something I specifically shoot for enough however so I was really excited to see that this weeks theme was a Black and White Portrait. To give my poor family a break from my camera I decided that I would try to capture a portrait during some Street Photography, another area of photography that I do far less than I would like and find fascinating and infinitely difficult to do well.

It just so happened that my Mom, Wife, and daughter were downtown to attend the Disney on Ice show and I took my son to meet up with them afterwards. After walking around downtown enjoying the new Christmas decorations around the city, we decided to hit the food court at the City Creek Center for lunch. I’ve often heard Ibarionex Perello talk about finding the light and then waiting for the subject to enter. With that in mind I sat us next to the massive two story wall of windows that makes up one side of the food court at the City Creek Center which was filtering and softening the early afternoon light. After about ten minutes this woman and her friend sat down at a nearby table to eat and talk… And I got my shot!

A true friend knows when to talk and when to just listen…

Black and White really makes this shot as it allows the emotion and sincerity of the scene to be seen without the distracting influence of colors that were outside the window.

Later as we walked past an ice rink I captured these two having some fun together

Waiting for the train, this shot reminds me so much of Italy that for a split second it felt like I had returned…

After taking a picture it’s always a good idea to turn around and see what’s behind you, often it’s another shot.

 

While he sat watching others, I watched him.

I really  hope that I’ll be able to do more Street Photography in the future as I find it stimulating, challenging and nerve wracking all at the same time.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed the images and that you’ll be inspired to try to make some yourself.

Happy Shooting!

Howard