Wildest Assignment Yet!!!
I’m leaving early tomorrow for my wildest Nikon assignment ever, shooting landing airlines on St. Maarten Island in the Caribbean! You’ve probably seen these videos on You-tube, as commercial jets land right over the beach on this Dutch/French Island. Over 100 international photographers will gather this week to shoot these images and I will be there for Nikon to join in the fun!! The sponsors of the event are a local dealer, Boolchands, and they have provided us a hotel location where we can shoot down from a balcony onto the runway as well as shooting from the beach illustrated here. I’m planning numerous shots with super wide angle lenses, fisheyes, and telelphotos shooting as the planes approach. I look forward to posting images all this coming week. Should be great fun meeting and working with shooters from all over the world on this project!
I just, meaning ten minutes ago, got a box with the new D7100 and the 80-400 inside!!!! These will be put to great use shooting the planes! I am planning on buying both these things from Nikon when I retire June 3oth!!! This will be a great test to be sure I want to add them to my arsenal! Life is just too much fun!!!!!!
These images were pulled from the picture section of Google. Can;t wait to try and make some of my own. More to come soon!
Blessings,
the pilgrim
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Bill, you are going to have so much fun. Talk about timing with the arrival of that great new camera equipment. I’m totally excited for you and can’t wait to see all that happens on this assignment. Blessings to you!!
Thanks Catherine, by-the-way, lots of people were saying a lot of nice things about you at Old Car City, you made a bunch of new friends!!!
I missed being with everyone there at Old Car City and can’t wait to be with everyone again. I love the friendships that have developed out of our time with you and everyone at His Light Workshop. Can’t wait until the next time. Have a great trip there in the Caribbean – I know it will be incredible!
First I would like to say congratulations for all you do , I am from Queens oniarglly and currently live in Syracuse nY if people were in touch wih thier community and cared things would be better, Syracuse no better you live here why do you throw trash everywhere etc. I would like also to say Hello to my friend Tanya Rodriguez from years gone by Hello. Please excuse my grip session I served this country for 9 years and nothing chaned still treated like second rate well I got to start my day Have a great day all
that looks scary and fun at the same time
It sure does, I will be sure and duck!
Yea… I’d get the best ear protection you can find. Have fun and safe travels. Love you both!
I will, thank son!!! Sure enjoyed our lunch!
I will be looking forward to your photos. Good luck.
Thanks, me too!
Have a great time Bill. It sounds like so much fun!!!! I can’t wait to see and hear about the D7100 and the 80-400.
I’m pumped, initial tests look very good on both…..
What fun! Wild is an understatement. Can’t wait to see your photos and to hear how you like the D7100 and the new 80-400. I hope you have a wonderful time … not just with photography but with Sherleen, too.
We are looking forward to my off hours together!
Travel safe and enjoy the special time with your wife. Praying you will get some much deserved R&R this week…and some great images too. 😉
I expect to get both!!!! Thanks my friend!
Your answer shows real inctillgenee.
I’m starting to question my 2010 decision to trade in the OLD 80-400 for the 28-300. Hardly ever used that version of the 80-400 because it autofocused so slowly and hunted so much. Looking forward to your experience with the new version. Have a “blast”!
Thanks Susan, I will certainly share with you what I learn.
Have a great time brother!
I will and I won’t forget to duck!!!
I hope you will enjoy the shooting and the sunshine!
One question about your decision to have both FX and DX cameras after retirement from Nikon. Given the fact that you are a master landscape photographer, why a DX a camera, or looking from the opposite direction, why would you want anything other than a D800? The D800 is fairly small and light, at least compared to a D4. The DX line requires you to buy and carry a wide angle lens for landscapes as the 16 – 35 is a 24 – 52 on a DX body, and the D800 has half again as many pixels as a D7100 – you never know when you might want to crop severely or enlarge greatly. What does a DX body give you than an FX does not?
I’m not trying to argue the point, just trying to benefit from your experience.
Thanks…and have fun!
Paul,
My retirement bag will contain three kinds of cameras;
One: FX Nikon D800e I will use this like someone would use a 4X5 view camera, locked on a tripod, cable release in hand and very sturdy, carefully shot!!! I will keep this in a trunk bag with all the rest of my FX lenses. Handy but will not carry that stuff very far. (weight)
Two: DX Nikon D7100 I will use this to stretch lenses when I must reach out to shoot something. Aviation work, some very limited sports, etc. The D7100 is more than adequate resolution and is lighter. I will keep a 16-85 on it and a 70-300 AF-S VR in the bag as a walk around or travel set-up.
Even though the D800 is not a lot heavier, the FX lenses are, and weight saving is becoming a much bigger thing to me…..
Three: A Mirror-less system (Still working on this one, testing several, and thinking it over carefully.) This will be for travel, personal work, when a big camera is an intrusion, and just to save my back.
Hope that helps!
Paul,
I think of a DX body as a teleconverter that makes all my longer glass 1.5 times longer. I use the 24-120 a lot on FX (D800 & D600 & D700) but on the DX body it is a nifty, equivalent of 36-180! I agree that carrying a extra wide angle is a pain, so I most likely will try to pick that up in the mirror-less system.
Picking the right gear is always a three ball juggling act, cost, weight, and performance, I’m trying to figure out how to keep all three balls in the air!
I will be 21 and my fiance will be 24 when we get mareird this upcoming summer. It’s funny because I don’t see myself as too young by any means. We’ll, God willing, both be blessed to see our golden anniversary. Before we got engaged, I was concerned about getting guff from people, but as a whole, people have been immensely happy for me. I am not afraid to tell people that I’m blessed to have found him so young, because I know this isn’t the norm (and that’s how I truly feel). That way if they’re thinking that gosh you’re young, you pre-empt them and say yes of course I am, I am very lucky!