Dear Santa Claus,
I really need you (or any other benefactor) to buy me one of these:
And a Zoom Lens please!
Actually, I am told my zoom lense on my SLR would work for one of these-two bad its not here-it is in storage with the rest of the good stuff……….Big mistake.
Important Safety tip-change batteries before going to an air show. I did not and had to use the S.O.’s camera for most of the Blue Angel pix that follow. Because my zoom works better than hers-and you really need a good zoom to get pix like these (Click on the pix to see them better):
Big airplanes look cool at low altitude!
I could use a better lens to take pix of groups. Like this:
There were a few warm up acts to go:
And then these guys came on:
Start ’em up!
The Blues are a publicity concious machine. I always marvel at how the narrator reads the script. Sounds like a retired actor from Topgun.
Which was why I could not wait for these guys to take off:
They looked good to me once airborne though:
This was the point at which I had to switch to the S.O.’s camera so the quality drops:
And as they did the Fleur de lis, we thought we would start heading back to the car. Did not do us any good though. It still took a us a while to get on the road home.
God loves the Blue Angels though-it did not rain till after 5 today-but when it did, oh man did the heavens open!
Enjoy!