More Blue Angels at The Reno Air Races

Here are a few more photos of the Blue Angels I have taken over the past few days at the Air Races. One of the days when Rachel saw the 4 jets flying in a real tight formation she said "daddy look they are all stuck together" HAHA.

Reno Air Races

Here are a few more photos I took while out at the Reno Air Races this week. The 2 prop driven planes were shot with a shutter speed of 1/200 sec. for the Breitling plane and 1/250 sec. for the Rare Bear plane so that I could get some blur on the prop. An even slower shutter speed would give a better blur on the prop however I would need a lot more practice to get some pictures that are not totally blurred. Rare Bear is one of the race planes and I believe it holds the course record for a prop driven plane at almost 500 mph.
The Air Force plane I believe is the C-17 Globemaster IIIs. They did a pretty impressive demo in that aircraft. Part of the demo was to show how fast it comes to a stop upon landing, very short distance for an aircraft of that size. I believe this was also the one that climes pretty fast at takeoff, mainly for when they are in battle zones this enables them to get out of range of enemy fire faster.

Blue Angels at the Reno Air Races

Today is the first day I went out to the Reno Air Races. The kids and I were only out there for a little bit however most the time we were the Blue Angels were flying around. I believe today was the first day they were flying at the races and from what I understand today is the day they mainly fly around spotting land marks to help them know where they want to be, line up, turn, etc. during their air show. Even though they do a lot more technical flying during their actual show they seem to be up in the air longer today as they get everything figured out. So these are a few photos I captured while they were up today.

Sunflower

As the sunflowers have progressed along I have taken a few more pictures of them at different stages. The bottom photo is one of the smaller flowers a couple days before it opened. The middle photo is the one that I had previously posted and now has all the pedals open. The top photo is the same flower a few days latter, you can see it's progression as the center increases in size. I have been thinking that I might put together the different photos at different stages together in a frame to hang as they should make a nice series of photos.

Sunflower

This is one of the sunflowers we have growing out back. It is the first one to start opening up. You can see not all the peddles have opened up yet. They make for some nice color in a photograph with the rich yellow of the flower, especially with the green of the other parts of the flower and the blue of the sky. I plan on taking some more photographs as it progresses along.

Pumpkin Plant

The pumpkin plants are growing really well and looks like we will get several pumpkins from it. The leaves are pretty big and interesting so I thought they would make a nice black and white picture.

More from the Spaghetti Squash

I did another picture of the Spaghetti Squash in our garden. This time I wanted to get mainly the leaves of the plant. Once I had the image in my photo editing software I did a black and white conversion to the image and applied a "green filter" effect. The nice thing about digital black and white photographs is the ability to apply the colored filters when you process the image on the computer. If you were shooting film you would need the filter in place on the lens.