Posts for: Lance Pearson
Oct 18, 2017 07:45:54 #
I went to see the four warbirds that are so carefully restored yesterday. With dogs in the car I had to shoot from the road as they are not allowed on the runway but these four are so perfectly restored I would guess they were never this good when in use. the big b17 flew giving people rides and I missed a shot in the air of the p51 taking off late in my visit. I apologize for the fence but these were terrific planes: P51 fighter, fastest in wwII not a jet, B17 workhorse long range bomber, B24 Liberator (twin engines) and the Mitchel B25 bomber. Slow by modern standards these were some of the most used war planes from land bases in the Allied arsenal over Europe. The Navy has a second set of their planes but when the B17 took off and landed yesterday its big engines were as well run as any engine you have ever heard. When the P51 took off and I was facing the wrong way to shoot it from my suv it was so powerful with so much torque and that big four bladed prop carving the air it felt like it was clawing the air as it rapidly screwed its way upward. Flying that powerful, fast plane must have been a cross between being in control and going fast and wondering who was in control. Still used in air races today for speed and maneuverability restored and improved. I did catch a private modern jet taking off as well for contrast
Oct 16, 2017 08:52:45 #
Mary Kate...depends on where you are standing where the stars go doesn't it?
Oct 16, 2017 07:06:34 #
nice shots. In Colorado you can see the elk browsing on homeowner's shrubs which in many cases are surrounded by wire cages to try and save them. they think at 7200 feet of elevation they own the town and in many ways they do!
Oct 16, 2017 07:03:12 #
very interesting. Cemeteries are colorful except many here in the state of Virginia where they are civil war cemeteries and follow the military format of row on row of equal sized markers....this is one I shot which pretty much tells you my view of War, one of man's failures that always leads to these markers. This is a union cemetery filled completely with Union soldiers not far from the airport in Richmond where after the civil war the Union dug up smaller mass graves from battles around the area and re buried them two to a grave as unnamed union soldiers, with about 8,000 headstones in this small cemetery. There are Many civil war cemeteries here in this area and none vary from this format save perhaps the Richmond Hollywood Cemetary which is private but has Southern Confederate graves re buried from the lost battle up in Gettysburg, Pa. One as a leader should spend time in these places before blustering about war...it is and they are, north or south, sobering places
Oct 16, 2017 06:53:41 #
a few more from the neighborhood I live in called Rivers Bend which is Chester, Va just south of downtown Richmond about 11 miles. the earlier ones were along the parkway that fronts an Amazon fulfillment center of one million square feet a few miles east. not that many flowers here this time of year.
Oct 14, 2017 17:08:46 #
all the flowers within five miles of home at this time of year! Most were outside the street that goes in front of a big amazon fulfillment center!
Oct 13, 2017 11:40:04 #
quite pretty today shot with a sony a7 and canon f 3.5 35-105 mm 35 year old lens manually. I love the color of nature
shot at 1/500th and approx f 5.6 and iso 160 if memory serves. shooting manual lens on full frame camera won't get exif data and I just adjusted until the light was what I wanted.
shot at 1/500th and approx f 5.6 and iso 160 if memory serves. shooting manual lens on full frame camera won't get exif data and I just adjusted until the light was what I wanted.
Oct 12, 2017 07:30:16 #
I enjoy the photos you have. I looked at the exif data on the wooden block shot and noticed you had cranked in a strong negative -1.3 of e.v. Is that something you often do? I tend to shoot my nikon d4 at -0.3 and on strong colors like a single color flower -1.0 e.v.
what's your philosophy on using that much - e.v. or is it a function of how your sensor on that camera works best? Trying to learn from someone who has great images.
Thanks again for posting and answering.
Lance Pearson
what's your philosophy on using that much - e.v. or is it a function of how your sensor on that camera works best? Trying to learn from someone who has great images.
Thanks again for posting and answering.
Lance Pearson
Oct 12, 2017 07:21:35 #
Oct 11, 2017 19:27:00 #
this is the best run farm I've ever seen. the owner is a former wall street investment multimillionaire and he has ag school grads running it. You should see the vinyards! the reason cotton is getting so popular again is people have found out synthetic fabrics are hot or cold and don't breath well as cotton does, aren't normally as soft so cotton has become over the last decade quite popular. Virginia has new cotton gin plants to process these. when they are done a fork truck puts them on huge flat bed semis and off they go to the gin to be cleaned of seeds and eventually become thread then fabrics.
Oct 11, 2017 16:43:39 #
Cotton is making a big rebound as a natural fiber and cotton gins are springing up, methods of farming are huge and very efficient. This is the issue last fall from the Upper Shirley Vinyard and Restaurant farm next door to the Colonial Shirley plantation...each of these rolls of cotton are around 5,000 pounds..all mechanized and they rotate the crop with other things every other year on their couple thousand acres of well tended farm.
Oct 11, 2017 16:36:21 #
Love the Farmers Gold image! Perfect!
Oct 11, 2017 16:34:17 #
thanks one and all....a selection from one day's ride with my two big dogs in the back of the Expedition...if we ever get a couple of cool nights the trees will start to change colors but we have been waking up to 73 F in the morning and 87F in the day...way above normal.
Oct 9, 2017 07:00:51 #
The temperatures here are 11F higher than normal daytime and 22 higher than normal at night so fall has not yet come but on a drive yesterday we saw the cypress at cypress point near Claremont, Va starting to get ready, some gorgeous wild flowers planted at Shirley plantation and a couple horses at Upper Shirley Vinyard and restaurant grazing away happily...just a 25 minute drive out and back from home with a stop at the r/c flying club runway there to see a VCU phd student and his wonderful home made drone fly very well....he is doing his Phd in some form of aero robotics...and this one was very capable and had a small reticulated control camera aboard as well...13 minutes flying time. Not great art, just a nice warm 87F day when it should be around 73F historically.
Oct 9, 2017 06:50:09 #
That is really a good shot. Clear and such composition with the red salmon and the colors of the raptor. Nice job.