Re: Peso: Blackbird and Friends

2012-10-16 Thread knarftheria...@gmail.com
...@gmail.com Sent: October 15, 2012 10/15/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Peso: Blackbird and Friends I never heard that one. KJ is someone I've always respected from history. The UH Center has the other end of his career as well, the P-38. My young friend was intrigued

Re: Peso: Blackbird and Friends

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sullivan
Steve, Wonderful shot. Is that the Air Space Museum Annex out by Dulles Airport? The Blackbird is special, but the Space Shuttle in the background makes the shot. Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: A post card image but I still like it.

Re: Peso: Blackbird and Friends

2012-10-15 Thread Steven Desjardins
Yes, It's the Udvar-Hazy Center. $15 to park the car free after that and an amazing museum. The Blackbird just stuns everyone because it is so much bigger than you think it would be. And, of course, because it was built in the early 60's. From a photography POV, the place just oozes with amazing

Re: Peso: Blackbird and Friends

2012-10-15 Thread Steven Desjardins
Make that $15 to park the car and after that it's free and an amazing museum. Now I'm somehow doing cut-and-paste-o's. On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, It's the Udvar-Hazy Center. The Blackbird just stuns everyone because it is so much bigger

Re: Peso: Blackbird and Friends

2012-10-15 Thread Larry Colen
On Oct 15, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: A post card image but I still like it. The woman on the left provides a greats sense of scale. http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-hMJBkP2/0/XL/blackbird-XL.jpg Nice photo of one of my favorite airplanes. One of my favorite

Re: Peso: Blackbird and Friends

2012-10-15 Thread Steven Desjardins
I never heard that one. KJ is someone I've always respected from history. The UH Center has the other end of his career as well, the P-38. My young friend was intrigued by the two planes, and was truly surprised that the SR-71 is an almost 50 year old design. We had a nice chat about the P-38

Re: Peso: Blackbird and Friends

2012-10-15 Thread David Mann
On Oct 16, 2012, at 1:48 AM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: A post card image but I still like it. The woman on the left provides a greats sense of scale. http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-hMJBkP2/0/XL/blackbird-XL.jpg I'm green with envy :( Dave -- PDML