Joer, you seem to have the same fascination with hummingbirds that I do. You take wonderful pictures of them in flight. I need to work harder it seems. Thanks for the great photos.
Hi Chief, Nice photos! Reminds me of the old swimming pond at our farm. No alligators, just a lot of water moccasins.
Really beautiful in double download. Nicely done.
Recently they have discovered that the water of the Salton Sea is a gold mine of lithium. Apparently it is the largest area of lithium in the United States if not the world. Once they get set up to extract the lithium it will become a bustling area again. It will never be the playground of the rich and famous again but it will help the local economy.
It's interesting that no one mentioned the three young people in the foreground. At first they seemed to be fence posts, but DDL showed the three enjoying the nice day in a beautiful location.
Really nice photo! Perfectly focused in download. We have Northern Mockingbirds here in the California desert and on my daily walk they sing like they are entertaining the world. I read that they can make over 200 sounds including car alarms.
I've gone through Deception Pass several times in my boat. You need to watch the tidal flow carefully. I've seen whirlpools there that were 10-15 feet deep. If you ever get caught in one of those, the chances of getting out aren't good.
That lizard in DDL is amazing. Perfectly focused.
That's a nice photo. It looks like they are heading for a Memorial Day picnic.
You are right Chief, it was truly a maintenance nightmare. They could kneel down and load the thing up, then it could not get back up from the kneeling position. Here is a quick blurb from Google--The C-5 had the highest operating cost of any weapon system, and the trend was rising in tariff rates and reliability and maintainability costs for the C-5. The maintenance man hour per flying hour illustrates the difficulties in the C-5 force. The A models consumed 46.0 maintenance man hours per flying hour, 16.7 for the B model (CY96 data).
FRED became the common nickname for the C-5. It stands for F-----g Ridiculous Economic Disaster. They bragged about being able to lift 800,000 pounds originally. The very next day Boeing loaded up a 747 and made the million pound take-off and it was just a routine training flight. The joke at the time was that the USAF was going to paint the C-5 yellow--like all the other ground equipment.
Same thing happens when photographing a Sasquatch! I always wonder why.
Nice pictures Chief! Where were you that you appear to be above the Snow Geese in picture #3?
Did you find the pot of gold?