WP Shows Off His Camera Skillz (more)

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2008-03-10 07:09pm

Towards the end of this last deployment I bought a new camera, and I have to show off because damnit I spent a lot of money. The pictures are of origional size so 56k'ers... uh... never mind, if you're still using dial-up then you suck and get out of my thread you low bandwidth bastards!

First off, the mountains near Kandahar. This was taken in the air, the sun was low and it was slightly hazy so obviously not the best condidtions, but what have you.

Second, a nice action shot from a squadron volleyball tournment we had a few days before going home. You can expect to see this photo on this guy's myspace page pretty soon.

Third, the downtown harbor of Chania, Crete, on my mission home. It's slanted because I had to sit the camera on a big rock or user shaking would ruin the long exposure.

Lastly, the sun setting over the Atlantic a few hundred miles off the coast of Newfoundland.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2008-03-10 07:17pm

That's a wonderful picture of Afghanistan, to bad it's all fucked up. They could probably attract some tourism.

Edit: question removed.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2008-03-10 08:10pm

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-03-11 12:41am

Beaten to it by five hours! I had all sorts of Top Gun references going through my head.

I like the shot near Kandahar. The haze actually gives it a foreign mystique.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2008-03-11 02:19pm

tim31 wrote:Beaten to it by five hours! I had all sorts of Top Gun references going through my head.

Many where tempted to show up wearing jeans and dog tags. Unfortunately the uniform nazis would have shit a kitten if we wheren't all wearing our official PT uniforms.

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2008-03-11 04:06pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:
tim31 wrote:Beaten to it by five hours! I had all sorts of Top Gun references going through my head.
Many where tempted to show up wearing jeans and dog tags. Unfortunately the uniform nazis would have shit a kitten if we wheren't all wearing our official PT uniforms.

Are you saying you guys were going to cosplay Top Gun.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2008-03-11 04:35pm

Very nice, love shots 1,3, & 4 in particular

. What type of camera did you use, a Sony I presume, going by the DSC in the links?

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2008-03-11 04:48pm

Nikon actually.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2008-03-11 07:20pm

.... Is #4 upside down?!? It looks like the sea and sky are reversed....

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2008-03-11 07:37pm

Uh, no it is not inverted.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2008-03-17 11:57pm

From a mission this weekend to Florida. We took a two ship on a low level down Miami beach and over the Keys. For a while we opened up the back ends and let guys stand on the ramp. Hopefully I'll have some good photos from the other bird of mine in flight. For now here's a picture from my camera of one of my loadmasters:

http://www.stardestroyer.net/WarWolves/ ... C_0047.JPG

EDIT: And here's one earlier. I think that might be Fort Laurderdale in the background.

http://www.stardestroyer.net/WarWolves/ ... C_0015.JPG

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-03-18 09:46am

Was the top pic taken just after you guys had pushed the elephant out the rear dock?

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2008-03-18 11:44pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:From a mission this weekend to Florida. We took a two ship on a low level down Miami beach and over the Keys. For a while we opened up the back ends and let guys stand on the ramp. Hopefully I'll have some good photos from the other bird of mine in flight. For now here's a picture from my camera of one of my loadmasters:

Great pics. My father was a loadmaster for several years in the late 60s with (if I remember right, it's too late to call and ask him tonight) the 913th Combat Support Squadron out of NAS Willow Grove, in Pennsylvania. He's told me how his unit would practice dropping pallets with jeeps and the like, "mostly" (as he says) getting the items in question down intact. He served on C-119s until most of them were transferred to Vietnam to be converted to gunships, though some of them were destroyed on the ground by North Vietnamese attacks (or was it the VC?) before they were ever used as intended.