Simple Click – Albatross Landscapes
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From the ground or from the air, great light is great light!
Simple Click – Splash Down!
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We did five touch downs in Lake Tahoe, just too cool for words!
Simple Click – Sierra Skimming
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Yeap, we’re just feet over Lake Tahoe making a pass during our flight.
The Albatross is an Amazing Shooting Platform!
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Yeap, that’s a massive hole in the side of the plane Jake is shooting out. Wouldn’t you risk your camera to shoot out that window if you had that gorgeous Lake Tahoe blue below you?
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The interior of the Albatross is massive permitting all sorts of movement about the cabin. The hole we’re shooting out is actually the top half of the doorway, a very large door because one of the principle roles of the Albatross is Search & Rescue. It has a draft of only 3 feet and in order to get the rubber boat in and out of the cabin and rescue folks, a large door was built. It works great for us, we could both shoot out of it without any problem.
Yeah, that’s a saftey harness you see Jake wearing. We wore those for about five minutes. We moved about the plane so much to shoot, we gave up on putting them on and off. Needless to say, I’m here to post which means I made it as well as Jake. And the cameras, they made it home too.
Photos captured by D3x, 14-24AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
The Joy Ride
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Dennis loves to share with others the amazing locales he finds from finding over the Sierra. This is one of the jewels he shared with us today. For the life of us, we can’t remember the name of the lake but we made a couple of passes around it so we could photograph it. Simply spectacular!
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Albatross Spotted in Carson City
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Received a great call yesterday, my very good friend and pilot Dennis called to say he was taking the HU-16 Albatross (gotcha with that title, didn’t I?) for a flight and he had two seats. Did I want to go? I simply said what time should we be at the hanger? This is a great plane which not only has an amazing history but just simply is a whole lot of fun. Dennis pulled it out of the hanger and parked it just perfect for some static work.
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Static aircraft are such a freaking challenge when you don’t have a clean background. Be it a bird, big game, person or plane, background is everything and while we had great light and clouds, the background just worked me over. Jake did some nice stuff getting up close, but I needed to get a portrait for the owner. This is when I pull out my secret weapon to make that background disappear. Tomorrow, Stephanie gets the file, my secret weapon!
When Jake & I were in Chino this past weekend shooting the Avenger, I learned something from Jake (I do quite often). He took this sweet shot with just a sliver of the canopy. I really liked that shot and remembered it when shooting the Albatross. You can’t really see it here in this small image, but the windows are a little slits making the front look like a raptor. Just a little aviation fun from a learned lesson.
Photos captured by D3x, 14-24AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film