Random Object Photographs
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Targets Guy
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boatme99
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The Navy's Blue Angels made a circuitous trip around Houston today passing by all the major hospital districts. The middle stretch went right down the Southwest Freeway near where we are. I took Mom and my camera to a large retail complex which was suggested as a good place to see the flyby. From the moment I first saw them to when they passed was only about 20 seconds and they were flying pretty low and slow. Put the camera in machinegun mode and managed one really good shot out of the 50 or so taken. A little cropping and work in Photoshop yielded this.
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That's awesome and deserves more than just a like!!
This is one of the very first generation Corvettes, vintage of 1953. It was powered by a "Blue Flame" in-line six cylinder engine. They still look sleek today and are quite valuable as collector's items.
John
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boatme99
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Kenny, that's beautiful country.
When I lived in Flagstaff I traveled all over the area and saw some amazing stuff.
For a couple of years I worked at Sunset Crater/Wupatki Natl. Monument. Lots of petroglyphs and rock art there. Being an employee, I got o go places that were closed to the public. Way out in the hinterlands. On one expedition we found the remains of an old revolver. Just a rusted frame. You wonder what happened to the owner. Rancher? Prospecter? Pioneer? Or maybe dropped by an Indian in his travels?
After being out there for a while, you get where you can see man made hunting blinds on small ridges or hills, always a prime source for arrowheads. I would occasionally come across pahoes out in the weirdest places. Those I wouldn't touch.
Heck, once I blasted a hole in Grand Canyon NP for a fuel tank. As we were loading the rubble, I spotted a perfect 4" dinosaur footprint!
Of course the park super was on hand to keep an eye on everything, so I took it over to him and asked him what he wanted to do with it.
He just said "do you want it? Get it out of here before someone sees it and shuts the job down!"
The desert SW is by far my favorite part of this country. Pretty strange for boy brought up on the New England coast!
When I lived in Flagstaff I traveled all over the area and saw some amazing stuff.
For a couple of years I worked at Sunset Crater/Wupatki Natl. Monument. Lots of petroglyphs and rock art there. Being an employee, I got o go places that were closed to the public. Way out in the hinterlands. On one expedition we found the remains of an old revolver. Just a rusted frame. You wonder what happened to the owner. Rancher? Prospecter? Pioneer? Or maybe dropped by an Indian in his travels?
After being out there for a while, you get where you can see man made hunting blinds on small ridges or hills, always a prime source for arrowheads. I would occasionally come across pahoes out in the weirdest places. Those I wouldn't touch.
Heck, once I blasted a hole in Grand Canyon NP for a fuel tank. As we were loading the rubble, I spotted a perfect 4" dinosaur footprint!
Of course the park super was on hand to keep an eye on everything, so I took it over to him and asked him what he wanted to do with it.
He just said "do you want it? Get it out of here before someone sees it and shuts the job down!"
The desert SW is by far my favorite part of this country. Pretty strange for boy brought up on the New England coast!
I remember when they first came out, a neighbor of ours bought one, I only remember seening three colors, white, blue and red.This is one of the very first generation Corvettes, vintage of 1953. It was powered by a "Blue Flame" in-line six cylinder engine. They still look sleek today and are quite valuable as collector's items.
John
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Thanks. I'm pretty fortunate to get to live where I do.
My 40v chainsaw is the perfect riding companion on my ATV.
You just never know what's out there waiting for you.
Sargent Lake.
The last day my friend was here we went for a short ride down a narrow canyon that I never see anyone or any ATV tracks.
Its kind of hidden and doesn't look like a trail where it starts.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mMzG5itVL4[/ame]
At the end of the trail there's this awesome little spring.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdFnI-AOQF0[/ame]
Its a pretty awesome trail. Its only about 1 mile long and you go back out the way you came in.
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