I got out and used my camera today...

[sharod]

Yesterday was beautiful out. Took a motorcycle ride to visit the Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, VA.

 

Space Shuttle Discovery

 

Space Shuttle Discovery

 

Boeing 307 Stratoliner

 

P-40

[MDSue]

Love all the new pics! The Udvar-Hazy museum is practically in my backyard and I've yet to get over to see the Discovery. (I took off work to watch it being flown in). I need to go.

Great shots!

[dileep]

Love all the new pics! The Udvar-Hazy museum is practically in my backyard and I've yet to get over to see the Discovery. (I took off work to watch it being flown in). I need to go.

Great shots!

 

 

Great pictures indeed. Brings back memories of our visit last August!

 

[sharod]

Love all the new pics! The Udvar-Hazy museum is practically in my backyard and I've yet to get over to see the Discovery. (I took off work to watch it being flown in). I need to go.

Great shots!

 

Thank you. Quite an amazing place to visit! Sometimes it seems like the things that are in "our own backyard" are the last places we visit. Why is that???

 

Great pictures indeed. Brings back memories of our visit last August!

 

 

Thank you very much. And I really enjoyed your video!

[MDSue]

Great pictures indeed. Brings back memories of our visit last August!

 

 

So you were out in my neck of the woods. What other sites did you visit while here?

 

Great video!

[MDSue]

Thank you. Quite an amazing place to visit! Sometimes it seems like the things that are in "our own backyard" are the last places we visit. Why is that???

 

I went there when the Enterprise was there, but we got there late and it was closing soon. I'd love to see the Discovery. I spent 5 years working for NASA. My daughter and husband still do. I have a lot of fond (and a few sad) memories of the shuttle program.

[dileep]

So you were out in my neck of the woods. What other sites did you visit while here?

 

We go to DC at least once a year to visit my inlaws near Ft Belvoir and we usually don't do much touristing. We have done all the DC sights. If there is an interesting special exhibit at the National Gallery we might go into town.

[sparky-elpaso]

We're having a movie festival here in El Paso and to go along with it our Museum of Art has an exhibit of movie costumes designed by Edith Head. We were there to hear a talk by the guy who put the collection together and his stories of what they had to do to restore some of the pieces was amazing.

 

 

 

The exhibit included a collection of jewelry - most of it from the movie "Samson and Delilah".

 

 

[PurpleHays]

We're having a movie festival here in El Paso and to go along with it our Museum of Art has an exhibit of movie costumes designed by Edith Head. We were there to hear a talk by the guy who put the collection together and his stories of what they had to do to restore some of the pieces was amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not that I could wear it, but I want the black dress!

[dileep]

Not that I could wear it, but I want the black dress!

 

me too! :D:D:D

[dileep]

[sparky-elpaso]

Not that I could wear it, but I want the black dress!

 

Me too. Most of those dresses were probably smaller than a size 6. The museum had to have the dress forms special made - there weren't any commercial ones small enough. Women were smaller in the 40's and 50's.

[sparky-elpaso]

For the first time I got some pics of lighting.

 

 

 

[Multi-Cruiser]

For the first time I got some pics of lighting.

 

 

 

 

Those are some great captures! What settings did you use?

[shootr]

 

From our ride today to Canyon Lake in Arizona

[sparky-elpaso]

Those are some great captures! What settings did you use?

 

My camera (Sony DSCHX200V) has the ability to be completely manual - but its operator doesn't. :) So I took a chance and use the preset Fireworks setting. Lightening can be short-lived here in the desert so I didn't even bother with a tripod - I braced my shoulder on the porch post, aimed at the general area where lightning was happening, and just kept hitting the shutter. Not sure how many actual shots I took but I ended up with about 15 that had something in them.

[dileep]

[Fred Ziffel]

[dileep]

today's show

[Debathome]

Fred, that is a beautiful shot. :)

 

Dileep, those Blue Angels free falling make my stomach drop. Our air show is coming up at the end of the month here in Toronto.

 

Shootr, love the pic with the sun glinting off the helmet.

 

Sharod, those shots of the aircraft are amazing. Looks like the kind of place my son's would enjoy.

 

Love all the pics here.

 

And yes, I would love that dress as well. ;) I'd have to lose half my body weight though. :D

[Fred Ziffel]

[Fred Ziffel]

[dileep]

 

 

 

 

Edited August 11, 2012 by dileep

[rockfsh]

 

Pride of America off Waikiki Aug 11, 2012 7:30 pm.

[dileep]