Weekly Photography Challenge Thread (see first post rules and then the poll at top before entering)

What's the current criteria for entry?

 

Please refer to post #2

 

Or #3

 

#2 is the better one.


Challenge for the week of 12/03/2018 Due this Sunday

New challenge: Sunset Silhouettes

One entry per person and due this Sunday at midnight of your local time. Photo must be taken after the time of this post. Ready set go!

 

You got the comms on Monday. I'll be on the road.

 

10-4

 

waterproof body and lens is my way haha

 

Too bad the case I want is like $1400... One day. I may seriously consider investing in to one after the holidays. I really want to start shooting in the water with my friends surfing.

 

Oh, a case for surf shooting. Yeah, too expensive for my taste haha...I'll stick to the gopro

 

What waterproof body do you use? If I'm going to buy something waterproof, I'm going all out haha.

 

Entry

 

Not my greatest work, but I don't foresee myself getting out again the rest of the week for a sunset shot, so the above will have to do. I blame the rain for rushing me.

 

Or Sand Check



But what Murph says below works well and has been used by many for a long time

 

Not a entry but itS 12/7My trip to Pearl Harbor

I’ve stood on the sidewalk where the Twin Towers stood in NYC when they were still removing debris.

As a kid who loved historical events. I read about WWII . I never thought I could touch history. The Midwest is a long drive to Hawaii.

But yet there I was about to board one of most historical items in our nations history.

On deck the names of sailors lost that day.

Where she lays with many inside . The survivors that have since died requested Internment with their shipmates.

Oil that still bubbles out today.
The deck of the Mighty Mo.the giant guns were amazing to stand under. Just around the corner from the front deck is where the Japanese signed their surrender.

The hangar with glass shot out.

Exterior hangar shot up

And Hickman gates “homage “ to our friend Bobby
How lucky are we?
All 3 kids have joined and served our country. All 3 have been deployed and returned home safely.
My wife and I are truly blessed to watch them become the men they are today

 

Yes remember Pearl!

My entry taken earlier this week as a just in case scenario. Had other ideas but rain is moving in for the remainder of the day and weekend here. Yay rainy weekend....again

 

Outstanding, and well said and done!

The last survivor, and surviving officer, of the USS Arizona was LCDR Joseph Langdell. I took the USS Coral Sea around the world with his son John in 1983. John and I get together each year with a couple of other retired Navy guys to hunt pheasant in SD for a couple of weeks starting in the beginning of November.

The last Dec. 7th memorial service his father was able to make was in 2008. His eyes still said it all even at the age of 94.



He wanted to live to be 100 and he did, passed away 3 years ago. He wanted to be interned with his men and was.





In the late 70's I spent a couple of months going by the Arizona Memorial everyday in a launch. Was tasked with a small crew of misfits that were waiting to be discharged from the Navy to go to the degaussing range. They would wrap heavy cables around the ships and we would connect them to a generator to erase the magnetic signature the steel hull picks up from friction against the sea. Which triggers magnetic mines.

The misfits were mouthy and belligerent, took a heavy hand to keep them in check. Until we would go by the Arizona Memorial. They would stare at it and then look down at the deck of the launch and be silent. It moved even them. Most of them seemed to realize that much better men than they had gone before them, and sacrificed.

 

A man who worked at my company
“Old Man Bobby”was at Hickman airfield and rushed to help as did many others. Sadly he passed several years ago and we got money together and planted a tree in his honor. The greatest generation is a understatement. This man was in his 80’s using his skills building crates we used to ship our items that we repaired. He lived aviation and talked tge owners to let him stay on. He just lived to work. He also had a potty mouth! Ha...he fit right in! He told better “your Mama jokes”, then you can ever imagine. It was even funnier when you see this almost 90 yr old man telling it. We miss that guy. He never bitched/whined that he was tired or sore. Just worked his ass off. I tried to help him but he was bullheaded and just would say ...kid I tossed steel sledges pounding rivets.
I took a few photos at the gates of Hickman. Lucky for me during my visit my step son was active duty and I drove on to Ford island. What a special treat for me. I was driving all over and he kept saying we shouldn’t be here I might get in trouble. I told him they would post signs “no entry “ or others. One of the coolest days I’ve ever had . Saw the hospital and a park that was used in tge movie. The hangars with glass panes broke by bullets.
Which is now the Museum. Amazing items of historical significance I saw with my own eyes not just in text books or movies. A truly moving experience.

 

Wont have shit again for entry this week have 4 shoots booked but all mornings

 

Excuses excuses

 

Im shooting still just no sunsets might still get something in who knows