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May 15, 2008

Avidyne/S-TEC Alliant glass flight deck in a 1987 Super King Air

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This is the cockpit of a 1987 Beechcraft Super King Air airplane as an electronics upgrade to an Avidyne/S-TEC Alliant Integrated Flight Deck install nears completion. Probably only a trained flight crew can appreciate the sophistication and the new system. Glass displays replace many of the old ones in this glass flight deck and digital autopilot upgrade.

Also, you had to be there as it was happening to realize how complex a job it was.

The photography was done with a Hasselblad 39-megapixel system and combination of studio strobes, long exposures and multi-captures to accurately record all the different light densities. Then, all the pieces were assembled into a final single image file requiring 1.6GB of storage space.

May 9, 2008

Raindrops and Light

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A gentle rain this afternoon left some pristine drops on the black fabric of some new lawn chair cushions. At about dusk, I added a strobe sidelight through all the drops giving all of them a tail. The "worm" in every drop are my four fingers wrapped around the grip of the MkIII.

This is not my usual thing; I just liked the drops.

May 6, 2008

Back in the pool

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We're back in the pool again after a long (but mild) winter.

May 5, 2008

Pool Girl

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Jenna Crumley; Sunday, May 5, 2008, aged 7 years, 9 months. Born when I was shooting on Barbados. Nickname: WaterRat

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