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The USAF Thunderbirds were the main attraction this year. I've taken pictures of their act before, so no need to take more pixels. They fly F-16 fighters, and they're hard (for me) to track using a dinky digital camera.
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Perfesser-Bear
~perfesser-bear
Pretty Maids All in a Row.
Noisy when flushed from their nest.
drivernjax
~drivernjax
You comment on this one reminds me of an air show here in my hometown a long time ago. One of the a/c at the show was an F-117. Because of a bird strike on one of the F-16s, their show was cut short, so the pilot of the Nighthawk took it up to give the crowd a few beauty shots. I had my camera out and took several great shots of the a/c as it flew by. Later, after I got my film developed (Yes, there was a time when cameras used film. LOL), my photos were in focus. A friend of my mom was at the show and her photos were fuzzy. When she asked why, I asked if she had an auto-focus camera. When she said, "Yes. Why?" I told her that the auto-focus uses a radar signal to focus and since the F-117 was virtually invisible to radar that was why.
I think my major trouble is that I'm too old and slow to a) understand how to set up the cell phone's camera to get long-range shots, and b) track a speeding jet flashing across me and hit the button in time to catch more than just the plane's ass.
drivernjax
~drivernjax
Fortunately for me, I've been doing photography since I was around 10 y.o. Back then, I had a 126 instamatic camera. I loved photography so much that I swore when I could afford it, I was going to buy a 35 mm SLR camera. As luck would have it, I ed the Air Force and was sent to Japan. The rest, as they say, is history.
G. Wolfe
~grauewolfe
Thunderbirds are go!
Now I'll be hearing the theme music the rest of the day.
