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Flight of Fancy…

Aer Lingus at SFO

I’ve always been fascinated by flight and air travel so it’s been fun of late that I’ve been able to shoot out on the tarmac at SFO.  I was doing some PR photography for Emirates Air and these are some test shots I took to nail down the lighting before the actual flight touched down.  Being on the tarmac is pretty neat being so close to these planes as they touched down. It was also raining and hailing this day so it made it a bit of a challenge, but that just makes things more interesting. On this bottom shot you can see some of the hail in the photograph…

SkyWest at SFO

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Life in the South

Whenever I go home I notice different things; here are my most recent observations…

– Southerners value family and actually hang out with their parents more than others

– Black and white mix a lot more – perhaps that’s because there are more of both, but it’s nice to see that almost everywhere

– but… racial tension is also still pretty present

– everyone drinks! People go to bars more than clubs; of course the lack of nightclubs in rural towns is part of that equation too.

– everyone is a football fan (this pertains more in Alabama where I’m from where the Auburn vs. Alabama rivarly dominates) – it is coolto be able to talk football with pretty much anyone.

– people don’t stay through credits at the movies – everyone pretty much gets up right when the credits start to roll.

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Ah the old days…

My good friend Stano (who I actually laid off in the dot.com days as things fell apart) sent me this link.  We’re actually in the montage around 0:22 for like 1/20th of a second.  It’s funny to think of all the work done internally and what ultimately became of the company.  I actually saved some of my old dot.com shirts thinking that around 2026 (25 years after the end of that first era) the Smithsonian will want relics from the era and I’ll donate them then.  See if you recognize any of these folks – I imagine many are still working at web 2.0 companies but many others like myself are in totally unrelated industries.

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