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Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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DSC00677: Mig-17

DSC00677: Mig-17, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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).

 

-30-

 

 

 

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)

DSC01358: F-18

DSC01358: F-18, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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!

Scott Air Force Base, Ill.

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

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"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

Forest Park Balloon Glow 2008, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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!

DSC09853: The Arch!, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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