On a work trip to Philadelphia I was able to take a little time to take some pictures and video. Locations featured in the post include Camden Docks, Wiggins Marina, Campbell’s Field and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Crossing the Benjamin Franklin Bridge you can see pictures from the Convention Center, City Hall, Eastern State Penitentiary, Schuylkill Rowing Basin and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
On Friday afternoon I drove out to Longview for lunch for my grandmother’s 102nd birthday. On the way I stopped to take a view pictures of the Sabine River (Río de Sabinas). It is named for the sabinas, bald cypress trees, that are common lower down river.
Just because you don’t have a football team doesn’t mean you can’t have a football stadium. This is still Texas.
As they built the new Apple Campus in Cupertino, it became a Mecca for drone photographers to document the progress of the construction. At one point Apple security tried to discourage enthusiastic remote pilots but that proved to be a harder task than they thought.…
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Pictures from and around Penitentiary Hollow at Lake Mineral Wells State Park. This is a nice park for some light hiking. There was a bit of a squall brewing when I was there which made it a bit too windy for flying the drone.…
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Here are a few pictures from Wings over Dallas 2017 air show featuring the Commemorative Air Force. I was not able to stick around for the flying part of the show. I was able to get in before dawn and have the run of the place for a couple hours to take pictures.…
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At Dallas Executive Airport there is an Embraer jet, tail number N100FZ, painted up with images from Star Wars that made me laugh. On one side of the tail is the Millennium Falcon. On the other is a painting of what looks like an X-Wing with the fuselage of a jet.…
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Last Sunday I got up early and drove up to the annual Plano Balloon festival. Being Sunday I was expecting there to be limited events. The morning schedule featured the balloon launch and a inbound contest. At dawn there was only one balloon on the field.…
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I was at the drugstore getting some prints from my recent trip. Next to the register was the usual envelope for getting C-41 film developed. The envelope said that they would include a free CD with processing but that the negatives would not be returned.…
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I’m going to take a nap right here. Okay? Goodnight.
On August 21st, 2017 I was lucky enough to get to witness the total eclipse. I dragged a couple buddies, Lee & Jeff, on at 1500 mile road trip that landed us in Hopkinsville, Kentucky for the event. Scott of Scott’s Astro Page had picked out the location at a church that was renting their parking lot for $20 per person.…
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Spending time with my human
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Mom just likes to use me for her school projects
