Some of the aircraft engines that were on display at Scott AFB.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
DSC02556: Grass Bokeh
I was trying to get all creative with the photo about 1 year ago. It turned out very nice and the Bokeh is nice. Some of you might have viewed this when i first took the photograph.
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 67.8 mm
ISO Speed: 64
DSC02513: Sunset...
We were at the Bone Fish Bar and Grill in Duck NC. The sun was going down and it was a beautiful sight. I do not think that i could have planned this photo any better if i would have tired to.
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 72 mm
ISO Speed: 125
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Forest Park Balloon Glow 2008
Forest Park Balloon Glow 2008
Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
DSC07179: Bird
A "Black-capped Chickadee" eating on my grandparents bird feeder during the summer. This photo has lovely Bokeh with the green trees all blurry and the feeder in the forefront. I used my 70-300mm lens for this photo.
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Forest Park Balloon Glow 2008
This was taken using my SAL-1870mm lens or the kit lens that came with my camera. United van lines. It was a big balloon!
Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Saturday, September 27, 2008
F-16 Thunderbirds
F-16 Thunderbirds flying up for their next stunt!
Exposure: 1/3200 sec
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 250 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Friday, September 26, 2008
F-16 Thunderbirds
F-16 Thunderbirds
Doing a high speed pass down the front in a 4 point roll.
Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 160 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Grasshopper: Old Photo
I was at the hotel in Orland and i saw him on the back of a car. I thought that it was a good shot. I took this with the DSC-H1 Sony Cybershot 5.1 megapixel. IT was in the early morning before were going to go and visit Epcot.
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 21.1 mm
ISO Speed: 64
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
F-16 Thunderbirds
F-16 Thunderbirds: taking off and afterburner is on!
I use the surround land and trees to give you a sense of perspective. You cant tell how fast he was going, but i hope that the land gives you a sense of urgency that he was taking off in a big hurry! You can see the fire shooting out of the exhaust and the heat trail behind that. He is only about 30 feet off the ground and is giving it some major power to take off at that pitch.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 160 mm
ISO Speed: 200
F-16 Thunderbirds
Classic formation. Looking at the belly of the F-16.
Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 200
F-16 Thunderbirds
F-16 Thunderbirds: Artistic blur 1.1
The flight crews were lined up to assist the pilot. I thought that an out of focus shot would be nice or interesting. By Me placing them out of focus, i tried to divert the attention and seriousness of the act that was happening and also to make it more surreal about what was going to happen.
Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 90 mm
ISO Speed: 200
DSC00835: Almost There!
F-15 taking off at Scott AFB on 9.20.2008. I love the after burner and the heat stream that is behind the jet as it is building power to do a vertical climb.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 150 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Freezing Cold?
People always talk about wanting to conserve energy and some try to do it and green. That is a good thing. What I have noticed is that lots of things can and could be changed to help conserve energy but never gets mentioned.
Take for instance, Going to the grocery store. We all do it and have to. We might get some bread, milk, cereal, and milk or cheese. But wait, how is the mike and cheese kept cold? In a freezer, an open face freezer. All that cold is just falling to the floor. It keeps the products cold, but also the people, the floor and most of the stuff surrounding that isle. Talk about WASTEFUL!! Not to mention the energy costs and refrigerant that is used in the process of cooling.
Hey, I know, let’s open the door of our home and cool the neighborhood! The open faced freezer is the same suggestion. Very inefficient and inadequate for what is needed. I went to the store last night and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. What is the energy cost of this unit while it is running 24/7 and also on the environment? My daughter always complains about how cold it is in that area. No wonder! They are cooling the whole back on the store with the open faced freezers and coolers.
Can people offer suggestion on this topic? Perhaps we can and should close all of the open face freezers and coolers and this would save a tremendous amount of energy and cut down on the store’s electric bill. In my opinion, it is an antiquated way of keeping food products cold and fresh. This is just my thoughts on the energy crisis that we are having…
What is your opinion?
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Companies joining to push music on memory cards
This is a very interesting concept. I use a MicroSD card in my LGVX8600 cell and hold music and photos taken with the camera. Hmm.. Perhaps i was ahead of the curve on this idea.
Sep 22, 12:09 AM (ET)
By RACHEL METZ
NEW YORK (AP) - Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card?
Perhaps not entirely, but SanDisk Corp. (SNDK) (SNDK), four major record labels and retailers Best Buy Co. (BBY) (BBY) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) (WMT) are hoping that albums sold on microSD memory cards will at least provide an additional stream of sales. The companies were expected to unveil plans Monday to sell memory cards loaded with music in the MP3 format, free of copy protections.
Called "slotMusic," the new format is meant to address two intertwined trends. Most albums are still sold in a physical format - 449 million were sold on CDs in 2007, while 50 million were sold digitally, according to Nielsen SoundScan - yet CDs are decreasingly popular. Albums sold on CD dropped almost 19 percent last year.
Given this, the record labels - Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG) (WMG) and EMI Group PLC - are hoping slotMusic can be another physical revenue source - and one that is more versatile than CDs, given the kinds of gadgets people carry around these days.
Unlike when the CD was introduced and people had to buy new players, many people already have the ability to play slotMusic albums, since many cell phones and multimedia players support microSD cards.
These new albums will come with a small USB dongle that lets buyers use them with computers, too.
"Particularly in this kind of economic climate, the idea of being able to use an electronic device you already own to enjoy music rather than going out and buying a dedicated player is pretty compelling," said Daniel Schreiber, who heads the audio-video business unit at SanDisk, which created the microSD card format and is working on the technology behind slotMusic.
Schreiber said slotMusic albums will be sold on 1 gigabyte microSD cards, which means they will be able to hold a full album and related content such as liner notes and cover art. Buyers will be able to use extra space on the cards to hold songs and photos from their own collections.
The cards and dongles will come in boxes similar to current CD packaging, and Schreiber expects the cost of slotMusic releases to be "in the ballpark" of current CD prices.
It's not yet known exactly when - or how many - albums will be initially sold in the format, but Schreiber expects retailers to give a "sizable amount of shelf space" to slotMusic albums. The albums are expected to debut at multiple retailers, including Best Buy and Wal-Mart stores in the U.S., and later in Europe.
Rio Caraeff, executive vice president of Universal Music Group's eLabs digital music unit, said the label will initially release about 30 titles in the slotMusic format. The titles will include old and new albums, such as one by singer Akon.
"We want to provide the benefits of digital music to people who go to physical retail environments," he said.
Asked whether he sees the format taking the place of the CD, Caraeff said, "I think we would certainly hope that would be the case, but I don't think we are so tied to that."
NPD Group entertainment analyst Russ Crupnick sees a potential for slotMusic to emerge as a compelling format. He said the industry needs "desperately" to give people a new reason to head back into the music sections at brick-and-mortar stores.
"Not that we want them out of the gaming section, but once they're done looking at 'Guitar Hero' we want them to come look at the music section," he said.
Technorati Tags: Mp3, MicroSD, Music
Sep 22, 12:09 AM (ET)
By RACHEL METZ
NEW YORK (AP) - Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card?
Perhaps not entirely, but SanDisk Corp. (SNDK) (SNDK), four major record labels and retailers Best Buy Co. (BBY) (BBY) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) (WMT) are hoping that albums sold on microSD memory cards will at least provide an additional stream of sales. The companies were expected to unveil plans Monday to sell memory cards loaded with music in the MP3 format, free of copy protections.
Called "slotMusic," the new format is meant to address two intertwined trends. Most albums are still sold in a physical format - 449 million were sold on CDs in 2007, while 50 million were sold digitally, according to Nielsen SoundScan - yet CDs are decreasingly popular. Albums sold on CD dropped almost 19 percent last year.
Given this, the record labels - Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG) (WMG) and EMI Group PLC - are hoping slotMusic can be another physical revenue source - and one that is more versatile than CDs, given the kinds of gadgets people carry around these days.
Unlike when the CD was introduced and people had to buy new players, many people already have the ability to play slotMusic albums, since many cell phones and multimedia players support microSD cards.
These new albums will come with a small USB dongle that lets buyers use them with computers, too.
"Particularly in this kind of economic climate, the idea of being able to use an electronic device you already own to enjoy music rather than going out and buying a dedicated player is pretty compelling," said Daniel Schreiber, who heads the audio-video business unit at SanDisk, which created the microSD card format and is working on the technology behind slotMusic.
Schreiber said slotMusic albums will be sold on 1 gigabyte microSD cards, which means they will be able to hold a full album and related content such as liner notes and cover art. Buyers will be able to use extra space on the cards to hold songs and photos from their own collections.
The cards and dongles will come in boxes similar to current CD packaging, and Schreiber expects the cost of slotMusic releases to be "in the ballpark" of current CD prices.
It's not yet known exactly when - or how many - albums will be initially sold in the format, but Schreiber expects retailers to give a "sizable amount of shelf space" to slotMusic albums. The albums are expected to debut at multiple retailers, including Best Buy and Wal-Mart stores in the U.S., and later in Europe.
Rio Caraeff, executive vice president of Universal Music Group's eLabs digital music unit, said the label will initially release about 30 titles in the slotMusic format. The titles will include old and new albums, such as one by singer Akon.
"We want to provide the benefits of digital music to people who go to physical retail environments," he said.
Asked whether he sees the format taking the place of the CD, Caraeff said, "I think we would certainly hope that would be the case, but I don't think we are so tied to that."
NPD Group entertainment analyst Russ Crupnick sees a potential for slotMusic to emerge as a compelling format. He said the industry needs "desperately" to give people a new reason to head back into the music sections at brick-and-mortar stores.
"Not that we want them out of the gaming section, but once they're done looking at 'Guitar Hero' we want them to come look at the music section," he said.
Technorati Tags: Mp3, MicroSD, Music
Forest Park Balloon Glow 2008
Forest Park Balloon Glow
Friday 19, 2008
Taken in Manual Mode.
Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 45 mm
ISO Speed: 200
DSC00732: B-52H 1.2
This is 1 out of 2 in a photo series showing the "Prandtl-Glauert singularity" on the jet.
Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 200
DSC00691: B-52H 1.1
B-52 Flying "Dirty" with landing gear and flaps down. It was on a training mission out of Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 120 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
DSC00677: Mig-17
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
First Russian Jet with Afterburner. Used during the Vietnam War. His "Afterburners" are on during this photo.
Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 280 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Mack: Don't Worry; New Orleans is Safe
I feel exactly as you do on this one Mac. Thank you for letting me post this to my Blog.
Don't Worry; New Orleans is Safe
This is my audition script for a job with National Public Radio:
After weeks of brewing at sea, mighty Hurricane Ike, bearing Mother Nature's wrath and reflecting the global warming caused by greedy Americans driving cars and working at jobs, thundered ashore on a dark and stormy night, making landfall while wreaking havoc on women and minorities because of an evil CIA plot. Snapping trees like matchsticks, and matchsticks like trees, because people are always snapping matchsticks and saying "See, that sounds just like a pine tree!", the hurricane, an iconic symbol of America's loss of innocence, a storm that defined a generation, left devastation in its wake in places we in Washington never heard of and don't care about, thankfully sparing our most European city and center of culture, New Orleans (cue the saxophones).
Evil, wicked oil companies cruelly pre-left oil production facilities in the path of Hurricane Ike in their pre-abysmal pre-failure to pre-plan the pre-needs of, like, y'know, harp seals 'n' stuff. A select congressional delegation will fly to Las Vegas in taxpayer-funded jets for a week-long investigation into corruption by Big Oil, and to participate in budgeting workshops to consider raising taxes in order to give more money to New Orleans, which was so ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Leave no child behind. Unless you're Mayor Nagin (cue the sloshing water).
Images of devastation in Galveston, Texas can only suggest to imaginative people a little of what Hurricane Katrina must have been like in New Orleans when President Bush's levees failed (cue the harmonicas).
Learning that every building in Bridge City, Texas, was flooded by the storm surge, with many of them completely destroyed and with whole families' livelihoods destroyed, makes one want to take up a collection for the suffering of New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina (cue the zydeco).
Hearing that Bolivar Peninsula is no longer a peninsula but three islands and that the loss of life there is not yet determined makes one feel sorry for those in New Orleans who suffer post-traumatic stress syndrome from Hurricane Katrina (cue loud sniffles).
Pictures of the flooded homes in Beaumont and Orange, sleepy little towns in Texas, make one weep for the tragedies in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina (cue more loud sniffles).
Considering that the homes, businesses, and families of Winnie, High Island, Rollover Pass, Crystal Beach, and other quaint little places occupied by the sort of people who cling to guns and religion will never be the same, with some people having lost everything they ever worked for, leads this reporter to take the front in leading a national day of our-thoughts-and-hearts-go-out-to-you for the people of New Orleans who lost so much more during Hurricane Katrina (cue some vaguely church-like sounds).
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
-- Hilaire Belloc (speaking of the Church)
Saturday, September 20, 2008
DSC01358: F-18
F-18
I was at the Air Power Over The Midwest Air Show today at Scott Air Force Base. I took this today, it is a 1 in a Million photo! I cannot believe that I got this photo.
High speed pass over the viewing area. We had a very humid day and i was able to get this photo of the "Vapor Cone" around the plane.
Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 140 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Air Power Over the Midwest!
September 20, 2008 9am to 5 pm
I went a little crazy today and i really gave my a200 a good workout!! I took close to 2000 photos using my Minolta 35-105mm and my Quantaray 70-300mm lenses. The a200 preformed like a champ!! I did not have any misfires or issues. I started out with 2 fully charged batteries. I switched to bat 2 at 29% for the Thunderbirds. We had an F-15, F-18 and the F-16 Thunderbirds at the show plus various other aircraft that flew as well as numerous other jets on the ground. I hope to have some of the photos posted by tomorrow as I have many to go through.
RMStringer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced
equation inherent to the programming of the matrix.
You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite
my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate
from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision.
While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not
unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control.
Which has led you, inexorably, here." - The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded
Forest Park Balloon Glow 2008
It was really my first big exposure with using Manual Mode on my camera. A little blurry but i like it.
Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 200
DSC09853: The Arch!
Taken using the Minolta 35-105mm lens looking North while driving across the Mississippi River on I64 West.
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Friday, September 19, 2008
Minolta 35-105
My newest lens. f/3.5-4.5 35.105mm Minolta Lens.
Here is a link to the set of photos that were taken with this lens.
http://flickr.com/photos/rmstringer/sets/72157607187781212/
Thursday, September 18, 2008
This Weekend!!! September 20-21 2008
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DATES, TIMES & COST | ||
| Air Show Dates: September 20-21 2008 | ||
| Air Show Times: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | ||
| Air Show Flying Times: To Be Determined | ||
| Shiloh & Belleville Gates: Open at 9:00 AM | ||
| Cost: FREE | ||
| Parking: FREE | ||
DIRECTIONS TO SCOTT AFB | ||
Scott AFB is located by Shiloh, Illinois and is approximately 19 miles east of St. Louis By Auto: From Illinois Route 161 the base is located between Belleville and Mascoutah where you can enter through the Belleville Gate. By Metro Link (highly recommended): | ||
FLIGHTLINE MAP DOWNLOAD | ||
| Flightline layout showing where most of the aircraft are located (subject to change). | ||
Current as of: 17 Sept 08 | ||
HANGAR-1 MAP DOWNLOAD | ||
| Hangar-1 layout showing where most of the displays are located (subject to change). | ||
Current as of: 15 Sept 08 | ||
OFFICIAL AIR SHOW POSTER | ||
SELECT FORMAT: | ||
PROHIBITED ITEMS | ||
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| NOTE: ALL CARRY-IN ITEMS AND PERSONS ARE SUBJECT TO SEARCH | ||
RECOMMENDED ITEMS | ||
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SAFETY ITEMS | ||
| For the safety of all visitors and aircraft there is NO SMOKING on the flightline. | ||
| Do not cross the crowd fencing and ropes - this could result in the show being stopped! | ||
| AIRCRAFT: | ||
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| FIRST AID: | ||
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| LOST AND FOUND: | ||
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| MOTORCYCLES: | ||
| All riders operating a motorcycle on base are required to wear required safety gear to include: | ||
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YOUR COOPERATION AND PATIENCE IS APPRECIATED! | ||
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Technorati Tags: ScottAF Base, Air Show, Air Force, Thunderbirds
DSC09667: Mushrooms
Four in a row. I love the white against the green grass. It is really a contrasting photograph. As i was standing in my kitchen looking out yesterday evening, i saw a squirrel eating a mushroom like theses. He had it in his hands and ate the top off and then tossed the stem aside.
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 60 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Blurry Photography on Flickr!
1.alphamale_31
2.goanga
3.jaypearson15
Three photos taken from the Sony Alpha DSLR-A200 group on Flickr.
We had a "Blurry Photo" contest and i selected the top 3 pics that
entered to be showcased on my blog.
Please enjoy!!
If you use a Sony A200, please join Flickr and our group!!
Technorati Tags: Sony, A200, DSLR, 10.2Megapixel, Flickr, Photography
2.goanga
3.jaypearson15
Three photos taken from the Sony Alpha DSLR-A200 group on Flickr.
We had a "Blurry Photo" contest and i selected the top 3 pics that
entered to be showcased on my blog.
Please enjoy!!
If you use a Sony A200, please join Flickr and our group!!
Technorati Tags: Sony, A200, DSLR, 10.2Megapixel, Flickr, Photography
Mack's Favorite After-the-Hurricane Things
Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me publish that. He lives in Deep South East Texas where Hurricane Ike came through on late Friday/Early Saturday morning. He is now going through the cleanup process like my family is having to do. Our prayers go out to all the victims of Hurricane Ike.
Favorite After-the-Hurricane Things
(apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Dedicated to Jasper-Newton Electric Co-Operative
Sweet smelling armpits and hot-water showers
Plugged-in electric clocks that tell us the hours
No more MREs in pink plastic wrappings
These are a few of my favorite things
Co-Op bucket trucks working on my street
Clean socks and clean shorts and non-smelly feet
Linemen who make electricity sing –
Definitely some of my favorite things!
The generator stored once more in the shed
Children asleep in their own little beds
Thankful for cold winds that autumn will bring
These are a few of my favorite things
In the gas line
In the ice line
When I'm FEMA sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad!
Just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie
Monday, September 15, 2008
DSC09767: Optical Illusion 1.1
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 90 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: Flash fired
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