Working with friends…….

One of the most satisfying thing about my job is working with good friends!  I’ve already mentioned the great time I’m having with Bill Pekala.  I first met Bill at a Nikon School in the early 70’s.  It was those first few Nikon Schools with Bill and Fred Sisson that started me on the path I’v followed my entire career!  They inspired me to want to be a photographer!  So you can either thank, or blame them!!!  At Sun n’ Fun I alway get to work with José Ramos s terrific aviation photographer that I first met through Scott Diussa.  José is a NATOPS (Navy Air Training and Operating Procedure Standardization) photographer, in laymen’s terms he is qualified to ride in the back seat of Navy fighter jets.  though not a military person he is highly respected and accepted as part of the team.  His photography is spectacular, especially his air to air stuff!  I will feature some of his work below, but last and certainly not least I’m getting to, once again, work with our great repair tech, Francis Yeh.  Francis make a lot of photographers happy everywhere we go with great clean and check services!  He really knows his stuff and has become a good friend at these events!  This has been a  great job and theses people are alot of the reason why I will consider the last 11 years some of the highlights of my career!

And now, some killer shots from José!

Most of my stuff is shot from the ground, here is my jet in a box shot!!!  Made with the new 80-400, pretty dang sharp!  Since it is hand held, the VR works great too!

Below, José straps in for a flight!

Thanks guys for being a blessing to me, and blessings to all of you that come by to visit each day!

In Him,

the pilgrim

So the best self portrait of the week goes to José!!!!

Please come see José and I at Photoshop World