We had a chance to attend the 25th annual Wings over Houston (WOH!) airshow this weekend. In addition to some great weather and spectacularly restored aircraft we were treated to some fancy flying by the Commemorative Airforce and the Navy's Blue Angels.
Jenn and I were quite startled to glimpse this on the road home the other night after exiting the highway. After seeing something ahead at the edge of the headlights I managed to grab our point and shoot (which always sits in the cupholder just in case) and grab three shots. The other two were mostly dash and headliner (I was driving after all) but this one got it. We were both needless to say, pretty skeezed out.
We now take the next exit to get home at night.
Due to the horrible weather here I've been going back through and processing photos. If you'll recall back a few months ago while in Alaska we took a charter boat through the Prince William Sound for some photo sight seeing. An unfortunate turn of weather left the boat in some of the thickest fog I've ever seen for several hours. I decided to make the best of the situation and exploit my captive family and work with what I had at hand. The results are below. D300, 50mm f1.8
ProductSuperiorJenn, ZeroDaze and I made some time to ride our bikes out to Coney Island a month or two ago. While quite a departure from its former glory (Thanks Thor Equities! It's really great that instead of all the amusement rides at Coney Isle and the Revere Sugar refinery in Red Hook we get to look at a bunch of weed filled, empty, and patently undevelopable lots!) there were still more interesting things to look at than I had time to devote. It ranks as one of my favorite photo outings in the city and in general an amazing day. Shots with D300, 70-300VR and 50mm 1.8 lenses.
For those of you not in the know ProductSuperiorJenn and I recently completed a move back to the great state of Texas. Things have changed quite a bit while we've been gone and while we haven't had much chance to explore much I did get to fire off a couple of shots. The last three were taken on, and enroute to Jenn's grandfather's farm with my D300 and the 70-200VR . The first was taken with a borrowed Canon G9 (which is awesome if you can't lug around the SLR).
I'm going to take a break from Alaska and put up a few photos from our trip to the Thousand Islands NY which occurred just days before we hopped the plane to Anchorage. Both places revolve around boating: Alaska- fishing, Thousand Islands- the pleasure variety.
These photos were taken in the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY. It is easily as cool as it sounds.
Title says it all- some more shots.
Hope, AK
Decrepit boat on Homer Spit.
Halibut carcass on beach, Homer spit. They taste better than they look. The fish that is- not the carcass...
Fishing boat in Whittier small boat harbor.
Fishing nets on Homer Spit
Boats in the Seward small boat harbor.
Some random shots and sights from AK. Captions below.
Some kind of machinery (fishing related no doubt. Everything is fishing related) on the Homer spit.
A cruise ship docked in Seward harbor.
Small boat harbor in Seward.
Machinery at Potter Marsh.
Sea plane in Anchorage
Wildlife is a huge highlight of any Alaskan trip. We were lucky to see lots of it! Some of it in captivity but most in the wild. Captions under photos.
Horned Puffin at the Alaskan Sea Life Center. This Puffin was going nuts swimming under the water and shooting out into the air above the surface. He must have flapped around playing in the water for about five minutes without pause. Puffin fact: they only have their beautiful orange beaks and colors for mating season. The orange beak is actual a colored growth similar to a fingernail that covers their much duller bill underneath. When mating season is over, the cover falls off and their plumage dulls.
Red Legged Kittiwake and baby at Alaskan Sea Life Center in Seward. The entire Red legged Kittiwake population exists in the wild on a solitary island in the Aleutians.
Ducks (not sure what kind) at the Alaskan Sea Life Center.
Band of Lazy Sea Otters in Prince William sound vicinity. There were otters everywhere just floating around and cleaning themselves. They were very hard to get good photos of because they rarely let you get anywhere near them in a boat and they are very, very fast and small. On our return trip from Surprise Glacier we were surprised to not see anywhere near the number of otters that we stumbled upon on the way in. The reason became apparent when we rounded a corner shortly after and found them all floating and napping in two huge groups of about thirty or forty. The bonus was they were far less skittish in a group and we could get in a bit closer in the boat for some better shots.
Large fish in the Alaskan Sea Life Center
Mother otter and pup in Prince William Sound vicinity. Otter fun facts: Pups can't swim so their carried around by their mothers until they are old enough to fend for themselves. Otters also have pockets under their armpits in which they store clams and a shell or stick to open them.
Mountain goat outside of Anchorage. This guy was literally on the side of the road nibbling grass. Why he wasn't skittering around way up on the rock faces above with all his pals- who knows.
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