Welcome to ISnAP I’m writing to you from Fort Worth, Texas, where I spent six days with ISAP members in the area and attending the Alliance Air Show. ISAP has a large number of members in Texas and with all of the aviation activity in the Lone Star State, I can see why. Board members Jay Miller and Jim Wilson, along with other ISAP members, graciously offered their Photo credit © Jay Beckman help and hospitality during my stay in the Fort Worth area. During the Alliance Air Show I was also able to meet with airshow staff, review operation of the Photo Pit area and take part in the Photo Tours. I also had the opportunity to meet up with the current ICAS president, John Cudahy.
It was unfortunate that the weather canceled Sunday’s performance. However, a few of us made it onto the grounds before the sun came up for the Sunrise Photo Tour. While heavy rains and winds throughout the night caused some damage to the grounds, all the water made parking for the airshow impossible. But that did not stop a small group of us from enjoying the day and spending time with each other. I hope that all ISAP members will continue to get even more involved with the organization and take advantage of the opportunities it presents to form, build, and strengthen camaraderie and subject knowledge. Emphasis has been placed on general information, photography events, equipment, and member accomplishments in ISnAP. Your feedback will help us to keep you in contact with each other and ISAP. Put ISAP-XI on your schedule for May 17, 18 and 19, 2012, in Virginia Beach, Va. We’re working hard to put together yet another incredible program. More updates will follow soon. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this issue of ISnAP! Larry Grace, Chairman.
ISAP News / Symposium: ISAP-XI Virginia Beach, VA. May 17-19, 2012 Congratulations to Jose Ramos named as SUN ’n FUN PHOTOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE at Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida. Congratulations to the following ISAP Members in the Aviation Week & Space 2011 Photo contest 2011 General Aviation Finalists Brent Clark Mariano Rosales Jim Koepnick Jay Beckman 2011 Defense Finalists Joseph G. Handelman Andy Wolf Connect with ISAP : www.aviationphoto.org Facebook and LinkedIn (International Society for Aviation Photography) http://issuu.com/isaporg (Current and Back issues of ISnAP)
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta by Rob Edgecomb
While all of the balloons get a lot of attention, the special shapes are always likely to attract more attention. Some of them are famous shapes like Darth Vader, others are company sponsored balloons with shapes that represent their companies while others are just plain imaginative such as the stork carrying a baby from its beak. These shapes are often a bit harder to control so getting them up requires the conditions to be just right. They may just inflate but not launch of the conditions don’t look right. While there is plenty to see from the ground, the best view is to be had from one of the balloons. The launches are in waves so there is a constant level of activity on the field. As you launch you can see these balloons preparing around you and others above you already. Once you are up, the view of the launch site is impressive but the proximity to the other balloons is equally impressive. You are constantly adjusting your flight path just to keep away from everyone else. A couple of good options will hopefully exist if you fly. One is the Box. This is a weather condition that results in the wind going in opposite directions at different heights. The result is that you can fly backwards and forwards and end up very close to your launch point. If the wind is doing something else, the Rio Grande is close by with the chance of a splash and dash in the water. The river shots are very cool if you get a chance. However, the Box results in a dense collection of balloons which can make for some dramatic shots too. Even if you can only manage a couple of days, do try and get to the fiesta at some point. It is well worth it. Just plan early as the hotels book up early and are not cheap!
As the largest ballooning meet in the world, Albuquerque brings together an amazing combination of balloons and people. Not only is it a large event with plenty going on, it is also amazingly accessible for the visitors. There are no barriers to keep the crowds back so everyone is free to walk through the balloon launch area. Since the area is so large, this means that it doesn’t tend to feel too crowded at any point. It also allows for some great photo opportunities as you can watch the crews going through the process of getting the balloons ready for launch - and sometimes the recovery too! The one thing that you will have to be prepared for is an early start. The balloons are preparing for launch from before sun up so the crowds gather early. The traffic coming in will be getting heavy from 5 a.m. Therefore, you do have to be ready to go in the morning. Of course, the morning launch is done by about 9 a.m. so you can go back to bed if you want. There is an evening launch and display cycle on some days but the warmth of the day can sometimes make this a less reliable time for weather. Plan for the mornings and the evenings will be a bonus.
On Location with Burt Rutan by Jim Sugar
we were informed that SSOne would be freestanding with the nose cone removed. No negotiation allowed. Take it or leave it. Kevin and I arranged with Scaled’s security department to arrive about midnight. Like doing a movie shoot, the first decision we made was where to place the camera. Then, we unloaded the van and started setting strobe lights on a variety of light stands, clamps, and brackets. By the time we decided on the look of the photograph, it became clear where and how to place the lights. Since we had only 15 minutes to photograph Burt, time limitations locked us into one shot with only a minimal amount of time to move the camera. We hid strobes everywhere: inside the nose cone, inside the fuselage, behind SSOne to light the American flag and the Scaled sign, and more. Hiding the strobes was one consideration. Making sure that the photo eyes of every light could see the flash from the main light attached by a sync cord to the front of the camera posed a more difficult challenge.
My friend and colleague, Burt Rutan, is the smartest person I know. Now, my photo pals in ISAP are clever, sharp, hard-working folks. But Burt Rutan is smarter than each of you. Me, too. Burt’s intelligence amazes and astounds me. Burt had a good year in 2006. A very good year. While the Wright Brothers—Wilbur and Orville—managed to get one airplane, the Wright Flyer, into what is now the National Air & Space Museum for their entire career, two of Burt’s planes, Space Ship One and Global Flyer, gained entry into the NASM in 2006 alone. (Burt’s third design, the Voyager, hangs above the entrance of the NASM on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.). For an assignment that I shot on the X-Prize competition for National Geographic Magazine, the editor Bill Douthitt and I decided that we needed a strong portrait of Burt with Space Ship One, White Knight One, or both. Because of production considerations at Burt’s company, Scaled Composites, in Mojave, California, Scaled allowed me only 15 minutes to photograph Burt on a weekday morning. Under no circumstances could I interrupt or slow down the normal workday, which began at 7 a.m. All my gear—every vestige of a working photographer—had to be removed from the main Scaled hangar and packed away before the workday began. Burt agreed to meet me at 6 a.m. for the 15-minute shoot. I own a lot of lighting gear. Dyna-lites, Balcars, Vivitars, Norman strobes. I tend to go overboard on lighting equipment. For this photograph and the other pictures that I shot that week, I rented a van and brought all of it with me. About 22 cases worth. For a few days, my entire photographic career rolled around inside that van. My assistant Kevin Schumacher and I anticipated that Space Ship One would be completed and possibly even attached to the bottom of WhiteKnightOne. But on the day preceding the photo shoot with Burt,
Because we also used the existing ambient light from incandescent and fluorescent lights inside the hangar, we balanced and ratioed all the strobes with the ambient lights, which we could not change. The final exposure, shot on Kodak ISO E100-VS film was ¼ second @ f/8. Burt showed up at 6 a.m., right on time. By posing him in a comfortable position, Burt could stand still and smile despite the long exposure. By 6:15, the photo session was finished. For the next 45 minutes, we frantically removed all the strobes, cables, and light stands and practically threw the gear onto the tarmac outside the hangar doors. Once the hangar doors were slammed shut at 7 a.m., we loaded the gear into the van and drove off. By 7:30, we had put in a day’s work. But the bottom line is, we got the picture. National Geographic published the shot in the April, 2005 issue on page 30. Thank you, Burt. And thanks to all my friends at Scaled Composites for making the shot happen.
Wings Over Wayne
The U.S. Army Golden Knights flew in the American Flag while American Idol contestant, Victoria Huggins from Lumberton, NC sand the National Anthem. The crowd was then pumped and ready as the F-15 Demo Team from Seymour Johnson came screaming in - let the show begin!!!
Let’s flash back to 1990 when I (Gregg) left Seymour Johnson Air Force Base after 10 years of service to the USAF. How exciting to see how much the base and the town of Goldsboro, NC had grown & changed.
The day was then non-stop action with Tora, Tora, Tora with pyro, Sky Soldiers, KC-135 refueling demonstration with the F-15E Strike Eagle demo team from Seymour Johnson, Matt Younkin, Rob Holland, Matt Chapman, F-4 Phantom East Demo, P-51 with Lee Lauderback, A-10 Demo Team, Heritage Flight Team and the finale with the United States Thunderbirds.
Seymour Johnson AFB Goldsboro, NC by Angie and Greg Stansbery
We observed Friday’s Thunderbird practice from outside the base along with about 25 others. The pros of this is the different photo angles and having the F16’s fly directly over your head. The cons however is that the show center is off set to the right. After their practice the statics continued to arrive along with a short practice of the Sky Soldiers. Saturday’s show began with a LOT of winds and overcast skies. This did not look promising but a few of the solo acts did perform. Then after discussing the crosswinds & the pending storms coming to North Carolina in the afternoon the Thunderbirds decided to cancel their show. They decided to move up the Aaron Tippin free concert from 5:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. During the show Aaron & the band presented the Wing Commander, Pat Doherty with a bicycle to start the Toys for Tots Drive in Goldsboro. Everyone enjoyed the show and left the base around 2:45 p.m. when the outbreak of bad weather began to hammer North Carolina. Luckily the base & the town of Goldsboro were spared from the terrible storms & tornado touch downs. Sunday woke to a most awesome blue sky and warmer temperatures for opening ceremonies at Wings over Wayne. A record crowd of over 100,000 plus entered the gates to static displays, kids area and finally the big show everyone had been waiting for!!!
Thank you to everyone at Seymour Johnson for such a great & safe show and also thanks to the town of Goldsboro for hosting the event - I think everyone there went home with huge smiles on their face and memories in their heart.
FiFi
by Gary Daniels Lynn Cromer and I visited the Cavanaugh Flight Museum this morning. The last flyable B-29, FiFi, is now based at Cavanaugh at Addison Airport in Addison, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. We got a chance to go inside and take a few snaps of this amazing aircraft. Hard to imagine there were once thousands of these aircraft being flown by 20-somethings. I also included a aerial image taken by Bill Crump (upper right). Fifi has a good home now and will be able to be seen by many more folks. I belong to a small club based out of 52F, a chapter of the Antique Aircraft Association. In February, we were having our monthly get together at a small, private airfield near Justin, Texas named Prop Wash. Out in the boonies. We were having lunch in one of the hangars and over the din of lunch time conversations we heard the low rumble of what we all knew were multiple radial engines. Someone stepped outside and yelled back, “Fifi is buzzing the field!” Everyone dropped their forks and rushed for the door, stumbling over each other to get out of the hangar for a view. No kidding, turns out one of the folks in the club knew the pilot and had mentioned to him the AAA chapter was meeting at Prop Wash. So, Fifi was out doing a test flight and they decided to fly over the tiny airfield and give us an amazing treat. Fifi passed over at about 300 feet with those four R-3350 radials sounding quite magnificent. Two doors down from my home lives a hero. His name is Ben Huss. He is 88. Ben was a navigator on B-29’s flying out of Tinian with the 20th Air Force in 1945. Ben flew several bombing missions over main land Japan and landed twice on Iwo Jima for emergency landings. I talked at length with him one day. I sat in the living room of this very frail fellow as he showed me photos. One photo showed the Ben of 1945...a tall, strong and handsome young man, wearing khakis, a A2 leather flight jacket, crush cap and headphones standing in front of his B-29 with the rest of his grinning crew. What a photo, what a time, what a hero. Enjoy the snaps of Fifi. Gary Daniels Daniels Design 940.395.9512 ddesign@integrity.com
The Making of “In Your Face” Cover
All photographers need a few kudos every now and then just to make it all worth the effort. So, in a blatant attempt to garner those kudos, I posted my very first magazine cover on the ISAP Facebook page. Kudos were achieved. But then, along comes Larry with a request to fill some real estate in ISnAP with an article on how I took this photo. Now, that’s a bit more than I had bargained for…but OK…what the heck…let’s give’er a shot. Let me start by saying, “Don’t try what you read here at home. It is very dangerous and I’m what they call a’ professional’, albeit perhaps a half-assed one, but I like to think I’m a professional. Besides, you’ll need at least a 1000 feet of concrete runway at your house. I’m blessed in many ways. I have a great job that allows me to work from home. And, I live just three miles from the home base airport of my friend Jason Newburg, one of the top airshow pilots in the country. One a beautiful day this past spring, I made a sandwich for lunch and went outside to enjoy the nice weather. Low and behold I heard someone flying aerobatics at the airport. Well, I couldn’t stand to be left out so I took my sandwich, and a camera, and headed to Jason’s hanger. I arrived to find him adding smoke oil to a beautiful fuchsia colored, not pink…fuchsia, Extra 300. Jason said he had just installed a new smoke system on the Extra and was about to test it. “Want to take a cool picture?” he asked. Now, that was a dumb question. “Uh, Yes!!” I said like an eight year old getting a new bike for his birthday!
by Lynn Cromer
Something you need to know about me, I shoot for the ‘high energy images’. You know, ‘in your face’ kind of photography. I want the viewer to say, “Whoa, how’d you do that!” So, how could I resist this opportunity? We contacted the airport manager, told him what we had in mind, briefed him on who was doing what and our emergency procedures. He approved and off we went. The airport manager and I went to the 1000 foot marker of the runway and Jason took the fuchsia, not pink, Extra to the end of the runway. I positioned myself on the runway center line, on my knees, as Jason held the brakes, throttled up to take off power and turned on the smoke. Once a big cloud of smoke had built, you can only do this on a calm day to keep the smoke from blowing away, he released the brakes and started his takeoff roll. Now, this is the point where we separate the men from the boys. You had better have a lot of faith in the guy driving that airplane screaming down the runway at you. Now, I’ve been around airplanes most of my life, which blessedly has been considerable, and I’ve never seen anyone that can handle an airplane as well as Jason. As someone recently said “He’s one hellova stick”. As Jason came barrelling toward me down the runway I was happily clicking away with my Nikkor 70-300mm on a Nikon D300 set on shutter priority at 1/250th sec. I started with the zoom at 300mm and zoomed back as he approached with the last shot, as he went over my head, at 180mm. From this series, I selected the fourth image from the left. This shot was the closest that still showed the canopy and the pilot.
Actual Series of Shots (That’s really not film) Now is a good time to talk about safety. You probably know this already, but as you look through a camera you can become somewhat ‘Camera Stupid’ and sometimes forget what is truly happening around you. That’s why I always take a safety person to the runway with me. Their job is to focus on what the airplane is doing and yell “HIT THE DECK!” if something is going wrong. In my pre-shoot briefing the pilot and I have a clear understanding that if there’s a problem the airplane is to take evasive action and we will drop to the ground. As you can tell, by the last couple of clicks in the series zoomed at 180mm, there’s still a lot of room remaining between Jason and me. But, the shot looks very close, very smoky, and very cool. I post processed the image using both Lightroom 3 and CS5. I use Kelby’s Lightroom / Camera Raw 7 step workflow and use CS5 to remove unwanted items (yellow strips, etc.), adjust the smoke and the airplane with curves. This image also had a heat mirage problem on the wings that I had to remove. After post processing, I was so impressed with the shot that I started to pedal it to the magazines. I received two offers, one for a two-page spread and the other for the cover of Sport Aerobatics magazine in a vertical crop. Never having a cover before I went with Sport Aerobatics. As you can imagine, this photo has generated a lot of interest. As I specialize in aerobatic and airshow aviation photography I get a lot of request to repeat the shot for others. That’s been a bit of a problem because I often have to tell them “Not until I know you can handle your airplane”. To date, I’ve only agreed to do it for a very few.
Photoshop Tutorial Moose Peterson
A couple of ACR Finishing Tips Who could pass up the an invite like this?! My good friend Richard VanderMeulen was doing a shoot for InFlight USA and had an empty seat on the photo ship and asked me if I’d like to fill it. It was a no-brainer so with D3x & 70-200 VR2 in hand, off we took for a dawn photoshoot over Pyramid Lake, NV. With Greg Poe at the stick of his MX-2, Greg Gibson flying their A-36 all I had to is look at the light and shoot.
Step #3 – Our main visual problem is the plane in shadow and the great red is black. This is so easy to deal with, just hit the Fill Light! We can instantly see into the plane, we can see the red and most importantly the pilot. By hitting the Preview we can see what we’ve gained and what we’ve lost with this move. The loss is the sky but with the power of ACR, we can pull it right back in without effecting what we did for the plane.
It’s sunrise, literally and we’re flying into the rising sun. Greg was doing a 360 roll with his show smoke turned on. Pretty dramatic angle and shot in very undramatic light. With the luxury of time, you could use flash in this instance and that would bring out the fire engine red paint scheme and permit you to bring out the crystal blue sky. That wasn’t available to me but I knew with just ten seconds of ACR I could bring out those two important attributes and make the subject really pop. This is all that’s required.
Step #4 – Going down the tabs in order, the next I’m going to click on is Detail. Here I’m going to do the sharpening, Amount > 65, then hit Tab key twice and in Detail > 5. At the same time since I am bending some pixels, I’m going to use the amazing Noise Reduction in ACR to make a preventive strike on any possible noise I might be introducing into the image with this processing.
Step #1 – Open your images in ACR (I use Mini Bridge and just double click on the thumbnail). I make sure Shadow and Highlight Clipping is turned on, I actually want to have clipping in most of my aviation images. The way I work in ACR really isn’t “the” way you are supposed to but what else do you expect from me. The first thing I do is head to Camera Calibration and select under Camera Profile > Camera Vivid. While I shot in this mode, ACR does not automatically see or select it so we need to. With that done I move back to the Basic Tab. Step #2 – The next thing I do is hit the Clarity and Vibrance Sliders. Both of these help make all the elements of an aircraft and its surroundings pop and that’s the whole goal. As you can see, my Clarity is up there but personally I never go beyond 85%. Vibrance is moved up just a tad. So with what I feel are my base settings done, it’s time to finish the photograph. Keep in mind the time factor, I do.
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Step #5 – Here’s the key to this whole thing, what in my opinion makes ACR so powerful, a little trick passed along to me by my good friend Russell Brown. Head to the HSL/Grayscale tab. The default if you’ve never been to this tab before is Hue, we want Luminance. The problem we need to solve is the blue sky was “washed” out from our using the Fill Light so simple grab the Blue slider and move it to the left to taste. With then done, grab the Aquas and move it to the left to finish off the sky. Holly cow, what a difference in our photograph in literally just seconds! Bloody Cool! And the best part, we did all of this with a RAW file so we have all the information possible creating amazing image quality. Just to make yourself feel masterful, click on the Snapshot tab and hit the Preview button and look at the before and after. Pretty darn cool if you ask me. See more of Moose’s aviation photography at www.warbirdimages.com
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Meet the Member John Slemp
Involved in professional photography for almost twenty years now, I’m coming into the aviation arena at a time that could be considered “less than ideal”. And yet, the timing seems just right to me. Why do I say that? Well, general aviation is exploding with ideas, and as transportation needs increase and technology improves, I have a hunch that it will lead to much safer, more durable, and less expensive aircraft that many more people and companies will come to use for business and personal transportation. I’d like to be in the middle of this exciting time. Interested in aviation since the second grade (when I spent much more time drawing pictures of Piper Cubs than studying), it is an arena I’m very enthusiastic about. The visual opportunities seem unfettered by time and/or space, the subject matter is decidedly photogenic, and the people are some of the most generous in spirit that you’d ever want to meet. So, let’s look at some images… Several years ago, I was able to purchase a little used Imacon 4x5 film scanner. It can create huge files (up to 1000 mb!), so it’s quite convenient to scan the film, once processed in my home darkroom. Now that digital cameras have come of age, I use my Canon 5D MKII for publication work. However, I still like to use the “old ways” too. I’ll use my plastic Holga camera, the Mamiya RZ 67, the Zone VI camera, or even a Cambo 8 x 10 camera. (I just couldn’t give up my film cameras). I still like the “look” of film, so I’ll use it when I think that there is a chance that a very large print might be necessary, or desired. Most of my work in the past has been “people on location” for various editorial, corporate, and advertising clients. So it just seems natural that I should continue in that vein with aviators. To the left is Patty Wagstaff, who was kind enough to come to the “studio” at the Weeks hangar while in the middle of a very busy week at AirVenture 2009. She initially arrived with her flight suit arms wrapped around her waist, and we shot a few images that way. However, they weren’t really what I had in mind, so she donned the suit fully. It was then that I noticed that the arms were a “bit too long”, and while laughing, I mentioned to her
that “we gotta shoot that”. To my surprise, she simply said “OK”. This was the resulting image, which I love. While not what you might expect from a member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame, she seemed totally at ease to be seen this way. I’d say that’s real confidence. The other funny thing she said was that this was a new flight suit. Go figure.
Also photographed were the other female performers including the Misty Blues parachute team, Debby Rihn-Harvey, LTC Jill Long, Debbie Gary, Julie Clark, Melissa Pemberton, Suzanne Asbury-Oliver, Teresa Stokes, and various members of the WASP’s who were in attendance. Although a lot of work, it was a ton of fun too.
Debby Rihn-Harvey, who was very instrumental in getting the WASP’s to come to the Weeks Hangar to have their portraits made. A Southwest Airlines Captain, she owns an FBO and flight school outside of Houston, Texas. As you can see, she was also the 2008 U.S. National Aerobatic Champion.
Twenty-eight year old Melissa Pemberton, already a eight year veteran of the airshow circuit
Time exposure of a Delta jet on the ramp at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Shot just for fun upon completion of an unrelated corporate job.
A Challenger 604, photographed for my portfolio in the fall of 2009. Originally this was a $50 million aircraft. The current owner purchased it in the spring of 2009 for about $9.1 million. A definite sign of the times.
This image of a Consolidated Catalina PBY was created 5 minutes before the end of the Great Georgia Airshow in 2007. A moment later the middle person held up a cell phone to take a picture, completely altering the illusion of an image shot in WWII. The above image of a weathered DC-3 was originally shot on 4x5 film while teaching an intern the Zone System. It lead to a number of fine art sales, and placement of images in various hotels in Miami, Newark, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. Initially, I created images mainly with “fine art” sales in mind. An entrepreneur friend encouraged me to think “outside the photographer box”, and now we have a retail line of greeting cards, t-shirts, as well as fine art prints. As other items are created, it also fuels the impetus to create additional images. All the more reason to hold on to your image copyrights. It should also be mentioned that when I shoot an aircraft, selects are provided to the owner in the form of prints, as a way of saying Thanks! A signed property release to minimize potential legal complications is always completed too. Last year was quite fulfilling in that we were hired to photograph five aircraft for the Goodyear Aviation Tire calendar. One aircraft is featured each year in this poster-sized calendar, so our work will appear on their calendars for the next five years! The 2011 version features a beautiful WACO ZPF-7, restored by Rare Aircraft of Faribault, Minnesota. It should be
mentioned that all the aircraft selected were either past or current award winners at Oshkosh. We didn’t know that when we were shooting them though…as the winners had not been announced prior to the shoot date.
Last year was quite fulfilling in that we were hired to photograph five aircraft for the Goodyear Aviation Tire calendar. One aircraft is featured each year in this poster-sized calendar, so our work will appear on their calendars for the next five years! The 2011 version features a beautiful WACO ZPF-7, restored by Rare Aircraft of Faribault, Minnesota. It should be mentioned that all the aircraft selected were either past or current award winners at Oshkosh. We didn’t know that when we were shooting them though…as the winners had not been announced prior to the shoot date. Another more recent development is the creation of the Aerographs iPhone app, which is now available as a free download from Apple’s iTunes store. It was created by a small company in New York City known as Nov8rix, and was accomplished in a little over two weeks, from start to finish. Once submitted to Apple, the approval process normally takes two weeks, but it was actually approved and posted to the iTunes store in six days! As of this writing, it has been downloaded over 5200 times, by users all over the world. Apple has a behind-the-scenes report system that allows one to see how often and where an app has been downloaded, and this reporting system will soon be incorporated into the user-accessed Nov8rix control panel. As new content is added via the control panel, it is automatically “pushed” out to the app via iTunes. When the user synchronizes their iPhone/iPad/Droid with iTunes, those updates will automatically show up in the app. It should be noted that apps are not “one size fits all”, in that the version used for an iPhone is not the same version used for an iPad or a Droid. Nov8rix is actively working on versions for those devices, and they should be available by late summer 2011.
One of the images that started it all, this is a DC-3 shot at the Griffin, Georgia airfield. Shot on 4 x 5 Tri-X film, using a Zone VI field camera.
That brings us up to speed, so to speak, and I look forward to another exciting year. I have a couple of long-term projects that I’m working on, which may even turn into printed books down the road. My membership in ISAP has already yielded several friendships and business contacts, and if you are an aviation photographer, this is the place to be. I look forward to many years as a member, and hope that my participation will only make the group stronger. Blue Skies!
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Larry Grace
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Jay Miller
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Frank Landrus
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