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| It blew my mind how close some of the planes flew to one another! Crazy! |
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| Captain America plane? |
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Me: Smile!
Grandpa: Look an airplane.
This is why I prefer candids. |
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| Mr. Happy |
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| Upside down. Makes my stomach do a somersault just thinking about it. |
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| Our setup. 😂 We should have brought a few beach umbrellas for shade. |
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| FALL PLEASE STAY PLEASE IT'S BEEN SO HOT. |
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| This bird was quite the source of entertainment between performances. And he just sat over there the whole time! We must have been too close to his nest for him to come back. |
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| I'm pretty sure this plane had "Jelly Belly" on the wings. |
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| Lucas... Oil? |
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| My dad said it was a World War II flag. I couldn't see it. |
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| The coolest part of the parachuting was the pink smoke. |
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| The first Thunderbird got there early and basically gave us our own personal show! He flew right over us a couple times. My grandpa said, "You'll hear them when they get here," and he was not kidding! They were so loud! It was deafening! |
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| Just flying upside down. Casual. |
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| This was crazy!! |
I love airplanes.
Well, I love watching them. I don't actually know anything about planes, but they do fascinate me. I have always loved watching airplanes land and take off, and I've always wanted to go to an air show, so I was excited to go to one. But to clarify, we didn't actually go. We parked on some road my grandparent's knew of and watched it for free.
I can't imagine that we would've seen much more in the air if we had actually bought tickets. I know there would have been a lot more on the ground we would have seen, but I don't feel like I missed out on anything.
And it was super cool to have the Thunderbirds fly by us. One of the Thunderbirds got there early and flew right over us a couple times! It was awesome. My grandpa told us the highlight of the show would be the Thunderbirds and he was right!
They were so loud. I can't even describe it. Deafening. But only when they wanted to be because they were also completely silent. It's crazy!
All those planes doing those things though... Upside down. Loopty loops. Coming straight down looking like they're gonna crash. And those crazy pilots that cut their engines part of the way down. NUTS! I would poop my pants for sure.
It was SO HOT. I should not be getting sunburns in almost 90 degree weather at the end of October. That's ridiculous! We were okay for the first few hours because we had some shade, but in the afternoon, it was brutal.
This was by far the hardest thing I've ever tried to film. I wanted to use my zoom lens to get close shots, but when I was zoomed so far in, if I lost the airplane, I couldn't find it again! I brought my tripod but couldn't use it because some of the planes flew literally right over our heads and I couldn't see what I was filming with the camera on the tripod. So it was all freehand.
I thought it would be an easy, fun little thing to film. I should know by now that there is no such thing.
One thing I've noticed with my camera... There are little spots on all my photos and videos. It doesn't matter what lens I use, but I did notice that it tends to be worse when I'm outside? I have no idea what it is, but I'm guessing it's something to do with the actual camera. It's so annoying though! I guess I'll have to do some research and see if it's a thing or something I'm doing, but again, SO ANNOYING!
So I did some research, and apparently there's dust on my sensor, so I have to very carefully clean it. Yikes. Wish me luck!
XOXO, Ness
