Globe Swift - Hamilton, Ohio - November 1987. On an unusually warm fall day two of these aircraft showed up at the same time. One pilot looked old enough that he could have been one of the Tuskeegee Airmen from WW2 - still enjoying - if only in his memories - piloting a P-51 Mustang through the skies. I Googled this particular aircraft and it turned up still flying out of Madison, Indiana. Nikon FE2 w/35-50mm Sigma
Truss Bridge - 24 October 2009. Drove over to Glendive from Miles City, MT – doubling back once to shoot a truss bridge over the Yellowstone River just east of Fallon, MT. I have since Googled the bridge and discovered that some other folks are as impressed with it as myself – trying to get it listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Robin was driving her children to the new day care center in town. The children were addicted to the large purple velociraptor like a bird overtaken by the pheromones of his mate. They demanded that they be allowed to attend, they had to, they were born to. The name on the sign seemed rather odd but there were children out playing on the jungle gym's and swingsets in the side yard. The sun shined brightly yet seemed to cast eery shadows over the parking lot and building. Once parked, the children scrambled from their car seats, flinging open the sliding door on the "soccer mom" van. They scampered off into the building ahead of their mother. Screams of delight instantly turned to screams of terror upon entering the new facility. Seemed it lived up to it's name. In the back corner of the room was a solid concrete wall with shackles and chains, 2 children were there, bound in the chains, crying for their mommy's when all of a sudden, the lights dimmed and the scream of a hellish beast could be heard....all the teachers were chanting in a foreign tongue, and then ................it appeared!!!!!!! - by John Westenhaver
I never trusted that damned purple thing from the moment we brought it home from a garage sale. It always seemed to be leering at the outher stuffed toys. I begged my older brother to keep them seperated. Then one afternoon we came home and were confronted with this scene of carnage in our garage. It is true: "In the End there can be only One. . . "
Shot from te observation deck at Cox International Airport. Try doing this today.
Very graceful airliner - daparting the gate.
Same airplane - being dismantled at a TWA facility in Kansas City, November 1979.
Probably the most graceful of Boeings' jet designs.
The tiny out-rigger wheel is shown here to good advantage.
Boeing B-47 Stratojets - Fairborn, Ohio - July 1970 / Tucson, Arizona - July 2007. As a matter of fact, when the black & white images were made, the B-47 had already been out of squadron service for five years. I've got some slides of these birds actually flying around at Armed Forces Day airshows at Wright Patterson AFB. I've always thought they were very graceful aircraft. Zeiss Ikonta Super B and Nikon FE2.
Daughter on a Swing - Cincinnati, Ohio - October 1988. Maricela and I visited the newly opened Riverfront Park - and she got to swing on a big swing. I have regular photos of her on a swing having a good time. The shadow treatment seemed more graphic. Nikon FE2 w/35-70mm Sigma on Ektachrome.
