Partly cloudy with a chance of buzzards

-Steve Douglass

Adobe Moon

Riding Thermals ...

A hawk soars on a thunderstorm updraft.
Photographed yesterday north of Amarillo.



(C) Steve Douglass

I saw a spaceship today.

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Just a few photographs from today's Space Shuttle/747 ferry flight after it landed at Rick Husband today. It was an breath-taking sight. I'll post more later.

Thanks to everyone for making it possible to get this close to a real spaceship.

-Steve Douglass
ALL PHOTOS (C) STEVE DOUGLASS

Cool beans!

KVII is going to use a photo I took of Palo Duro fork of the Red River as a new background for their School Net!

You can buy a print (without the School Net) by contacting me at the e-mail link above.

-Steve

I got buzzed - again.

Does my apartment just happen to lie under a new (unmarked) test flight operations area or (and i can't help but wonder) do they know an aviation photographer lives at my GPS coordinates and is always ready to take a portrait of these amazing aircraft/hybrid helicopters?

This afternoon about 2:PM I heard the familiar sound of an V-22 Osprey.

I see them in the pattern a lot since they are built out at the Bell/Textron plant on the east side of Amarillo.


Thing is, I live 12 miles from the plant and no where near their usual flight test areas, but lately they have been flying very low (and in tight circles) right over my abode in SW Amarillo.

When they do their circles, it seems my place is located right in the very center of things.

Today they came over very low (below a thousand feet) and did three circles allowing me enough time to grabb my camera and make a few shots.

When an Osprey is circling over one's apartment, you jolly-well know it because the whole place vibrates. I noticed other inhabitants sticking their heads out to see what was causing all the clamor.

Some seemed to be peeved, but some thought it was cool. I lean heavily toward the cool side.

Keep it up guys!

-Steve Douglass

U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup

U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup: "The U.S. has upgraded the supercomputer used to develop weather forecast models, a system so critical to meteorologists that the government has bought a second, identical system as a backup.

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(Via digg.com: Stories / Popular.)

Good day - moon shine!

Taken this morning looking west.




-Steve

Good day - Sunshine!

Hoping you have a wonderful Labor Day- without too much labor - unless its a labor of love.

-Steve

September Moon

God-Rays

Menace to navigation - from both points of view.