Here’s another image of the Lockheed 10-E Electra at the Museum of Flight. I’m a huge fan of the design of this aircraft.
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This Lockheed 10-E Electra was my favorite aircraft at the Museum of Flight. Its gleaming metal radiates the glamor of the early days of aviation. The pilots from that era were larger-than-life heroes who were constantly achieving new firsts. Aviation has tremendously matured from those early days. Twenty years after the 10-E was the jet age where the jet-setting passengers became glamorous. Today, air travel is safe, cheap and mundane but no modern airplane is as beautiful as an Electra. Today’s king of skies of is the A380 which may be a technological marvel but looks ugly and ungainly.
Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Museum of Flight
On our way back to the airport from the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, we made a quick stop at Kerry Park to see the Seattle skyline. Kerry Park has a fantastic view of the Space Needle and rest of the downtown skyline.
Seattle Skyline
I took my new lens out to the Palo Alto Baylands to try it out and my favorite image was this duck, which I think is a female Northern Pintail. I was unpleasantly surprised about the number of mosquitos who were more than happy to turn me into their next meal. Next time I will bring insect repellant.
Duck at Palo Alto Baylands
Every winter mustard plants sprout up in the vineyards in Napa Valley.
Silverado Trail Mustard
Another image created on my new year’s day excursion to the coast. For me, this image captures the feel the winter on the coast: cloudy, cold and shrouded in veil of mystery.
Laguna Creek Beach, Part II
One of my new year’s resolutions was to spend more time on my photography so I figured I should start on New Year’s Day with an excursion out to the coast. The scene struck me as very much a January day: overcast, cold and with just hints of sunset color. January is when the lights and cheer of the holidays are forgotten and what’s left is the realization that it’s a long haul till spring.
Laguna Creek Beach
The Manhattan Bridge lives in both the literal and figurative shadow of the it’s more famous brother, the Brooklyn Bridge. The Manhattan bridge is just to the east of the Brooklyn Bridge and both make the crossing between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Manhattan Bridge
Unlike the cold and foggy evenings of the summer, this September Sunday evening was warm, pleasant and shows the best San Francisco has to offer.