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Up, Up, and Away in my Beautiful Air-Flying-Thingy

Picture #01: Jet airplane with contrail flying through high cirrus clouds and a Circumzenithal arc Purchase Prints or License Usage: ID# AVI-2173. Up, Up, and Away in my Beautiful Air-Flying-Thingy New Aerial and Aviation photos and pictures added to my Image Archive. I've had a life-long love of Aerial and…

Gary CrabbeJune 18, 2023

Aviation California Eastern Sierra Mountains Night

UFO over Lone Pine Peak, Eastern Sierra

A UFO streak of light flying through the starry skies over the mountains of the Eastern Sierra. Can you tell me what this is? Last spring I was shooting the clouds over the Sierra Crest from the Alabama Hills in Lone Pine, doing long exposure shots of 25 seconds to capture…

Gary CrabbeJune 14, 2016

Aviation Clouds and Sky Photos Rainbows Weather

A cosmic coincidence to start the New Year

Picture: Jet airplane with contrail flying through high cirrus clouds and a rainbow known as a circumzenithal arc, in the skies above Lake Tahoe, Nevada Back in 2005, after 15 years of shooting professional transparency film, I entered the digital era when I purchased my first DSLR, which at the…

Gary CrabbeJanuary 15, 2013

Aerials Aviation California Coast Photos Roads Travel

Big Sur? No, Sir.

Picture: High above the Pacific Ocean along the steep and rugged hills of the Sonoma County coast, California

Gary CrabbeNovember 10, 2010

Aviation California Photos Uncategorized

My, how time flies…

Picture: Air Force planes on display at the "Century Circle" near the main entrance gate to Edwards Air Force Base, near Mojave, California The saying goes, "My, how time flies when you're having fun." Right now, my slightly modified version reads, "...or working your backside off." I feel kinda bad…

Gary CrabbeJanuary 13, 2010

Aviation California Clouds and Sky Photos Space and Science Weather

Houston, we have a problem… disappointment.

Picture: X-15 NASA Experimental Rocket Plane and storm clouds, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, near Mojave, California. How do you deal with photographic disappointment? What happens when you go after a shot with a certain set of expectations, and then you are totally foiled in your attempts to…

Gary CrabbeJune 1, 2009

Aviation California Photos Travel

Huh? Whaddya Say? Speak Up!

Picture: FAA Saftey Crews working on runway approach lights below a jet airplane landing at LAX, Los Angeles, California I had mentioned previously regarding my recent Southern California Coast trip, that some of my favorite images taken over the nine days were some of the very last one's I took.…

Gary CrabbeAugust 16, 2008

Aviation California Mountains Photos Sunrise Travel

Photo: Timing for the Summit

Picture: Sunrise over the Sierra crest and the Lake Tahoe basin from 33,000 feet above the California / Nevada border. I'm here at the Nanpa Summit in Destin, Florida this week. I knew from experience during last year's summit in Palm Springs that there would likely be very little time…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 29, 2008

Aviation Uncategorized

Crashed and burned on the end of the Runway

Picture: Stunt plane in spinning free fall maneuver. Just over a week ago I posted a blog entry that showed an airplane that had run off the side of a runway. I used that image to tie in an analogy of some computer crashes I'd been experiencing. I also include…

Gary CrabbeJanuary 25, 2008

Aviation Photos Travel

Houston, we have a problem

Picture: Airplane crash landing on side of runway after gear failure, Eureka, Humboldt County, California What does this photo have in common with my computer? They both crashed. I have one guilty pleasure for computer games, namely Microsoft's Flight Simulator. It's a relaxing diversion while working on other things in…

Gary CrabbeJanuary 17, 2008

Aviation California Clouds and Sky Outdoors Photos Sunrise Travel vineyards

Photo: Taking Flight in a Balloon over the Napa Valley

Picture: Hot Air Ballon and storm clouds at sunrise over vineyard near Oakville, Napa Valley, California. As I mentioned in my last post, I've just completed an overdue update to my website, including a number of new online photo galleries. The first gallery I'd like to introduce is the Napa…

Gary CrabbeDecember 9, 2006

Aviation Photos

Another Blue Angel shot

Here's one more shot of the Blue Angels flying in formation during the San Francisco Fleet Week celebrations.

Gary CrabbeOctober 11, 2006

Aviation Photos

Blue Angels

I felt so non-professional. In a way, it's enjoyable when you don't feel you have to get the shot. That's the expectation everytime you're hired as a pro photographer. But not this last Sunday. It was take the kids to the city for the day, mainly to watch the Blue…

Gary CrabbeOctober 9, 2006

Aviation Photos Sunset Travel

Out the Window

Photo: Looking out the airplane window at sunset light on engine cowling of Boeing 737-400 enroute from Chicago, Illinois, to San Francisco, California As I mentioned on a previous post, I planned my recent flight from Chicago to be flying right over the Sierra at sunset; which we were. However…

Gary CrabbeSeptember 26, 2006

Aviation California Clouds and Sky Mountains Photos Travel

Photo: Go Fly Over a Rock

Picture: Passenger jet in blue sky with contrail flying over the summit of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. "Ladies & Gentlemen, this is your capitan speaking. For those of you lucky enough to be seated on the right side of the plane, if you look out your window, you'll…

Gary CrabbeMay 30, 2006

Aviation Rants and Raves

Nose out the window

I'm one of those people that whenever I fly, I try to get a window seat. As long as it's not picth black night, or flying through clouds, my nose (or camera) is glued to the window. On a couple cross-country flights, I've actually gotten a stiff neck and cramps…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 22, 2006

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