Aerial applicator positions for another pass. Summer 2011

Welcome back! I’d like to offer up August’s wallpaper for you…what!? It’s September, you say?

Shoot.  Yeah, I know.  It’s September.  I missed August altogether. I’m sorry. The summer really slipped away. My excuse explanation is I hadn’t done a whole lot of personal shooting in June/July and I wasn’t terribly excited about a lot of my archived images

And then August came.  And I shot. A lot. I got some great images, but I’ve mostly only done the basic sorting so far and a few select edits on some of the choice picks. I’ve got such an abundance of images to work on now, that I have issued a bit of a personal moratorium on shooting any more until I’ve processed August’s images.

The image above was set to be the August wallpaper, but actually writing the blog post got later and later and other commitments took my up my time until…too late.  One of my goals once I started offering wallpapers was to put one out on time every month. I have been really late on my offerings as of late and here we are.

Now, this really isn’t a big deal to anyone but me. Still, I don’t like missing goals and I’m going to better from here on out.

As far as this image is concerned, I heard this plane buzz my house on a Saturday morning. I live on a 10-acre farmstead out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by cropland. As such, I have a great home base for launching out on plane-chasing expeditions. When this guy buzzed overhead, I grabbed my boys, and we headed out for a short adventure. God blessed us with a fun morning (and He has blessed me with two tremendous little boys and, of course, an unceasingly loving and gracious wife who encourages these little adventures…but, I digress).

It was a blast shooting this pilot (I know, I know, photo-speak, you know what I mean).  I have yet to confirm, but I’m 99.9% this was Toby McPherson from Tall Towers Aviation.  (It was his plane with his name on the side, so I’m assuming he is, most likely, flying it). To say the least, he’s a tremendous pilot. He seemed to be doing a bit of positioning, when he had the chance, so I could snag some exciting “hero” shots. I got quite a few keepers in this series; images #6, #9 & #11 in my Aviation portfolio are a few of them.

Well, I’m getting long-winded now.  In closing, I missed my goal and I am sorry.  I’m going to do better from now on. I’ve got the September wallpaper files ready to go and my next post will offer them up for you.

Thanks for hanging around!