worm holes

I told my wife recently that, besides being a record-setting pioneer pilot, Amelia Earhart had also been a social worker and a photographer. She didn't believe me. It's all true though. On her last flight, she was carrying along a Kodak Duo Six-20, though it was a slightly earlier model than the one used to make the above photos.

Cate

I have added a page to my vintage cameras site about the Olympus Infinity Stylus.

Old Town Albuquerque

For today's early morning walk, I chose to take along the Olympus Stylus, a great little auto-everything point-and-shoot. I picked it up for two bucks this summer at a thrift store.

cottonwood bosque

Near the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

vintage aircraft with a vintage camera

The B-52 and the B-49 at The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque.





I've photographed these old planes many times; this is the first time with my centenarian Kodak, the 1-A Special with the Rapid Rectilinear lens. It is always fun to get nice images from very old cameras, but on this occasion the camera also represented a practical choice given the subject. The long lens provides a nice perspective, and the semi-panoramic format is well suited to these big bombers. The exposures were 1/50 sec. at f45 on Fuji Neopan 400.

de Havilland DH.88 Comet

A new addition to the list of blogs I visit daily is James Kightly's Vintage Aeroplane Writer. I thought his photos of the spruce-clad racer some of the finest aircraft photos I've seen.

A quick search on "de Havilland DH.88 Comet" turned up a good wikipedia history of the plane. Three were developed specifically for the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia. Two finished, and the red one was the winner. Two of those are still in existence, and there are a couple replicas in progress.

The search also found some fantastic Movietone news coverage of the Air Race showing many of the race planes in flight as well as interviews with the pilots.

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