Photo of the Week: T-28 Blue Angels Trainer

This was a shot I took at the Kalamazoo Air Museum (the Air Zoo) back on July 12th, 2002. I was there visiting the museum with some friends when they announced a special demonstration flight. We headed out to the tarmac in time to see them preparing this old T-28 Trojan used by the Blue Angels back in the 1950's for team training. It was quite a sight to see this vintage war bird fired up, take off and perform a few maneuvers for the crowd. What can I saw, I like aviation!

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Photo of the Week: New Orleans Neon

This was a neon sign I found inside a great little restaurant in the French Quarter in New Orleans. The name of the place was the Olde N'awlins Cookery, but unfortunately is was damaged by hurricane Katrina and has not reopened. I took the shot in April of 2002 when I was down there for a technical conference. It was one of the better business trips I have taken as the sessions were good and the atmosphere was inviting and fun. I have been to New Orleans a few times, but this one stands out as one of the better trips down there (thanks to Smelly Girl and the whole gang!). I just thought it was a cool image (I'm sure it had nothing to do with the copious amount of alcohol consumed prior to dinner). Click on the image for a larger version.

Photo of the Week: 1223 Pere Marquette

I'm going to try something new, a feature I call Photo of the Week. Once a week I plan to do a post around one of the pictures I've taken over the years with a little history or story behind the shot.

The inaugural shot is one from back in August of 2002 taken near a park in Grand Haven, MI. It's a favorite of mine around railroading featuring the the 2-8-4 Pere Marquette steam engine # 1223.



1223 hauled freight between Toledo and Chicago in the years immediately before and after World War II and was retired in 1951. She's a reminder to me of the bygone days of steam locomotives.

Just want to see if...

Just want to see if Jott still works directly to the blog sites. Hope so. listen

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Twitter??

OK, I finally gave in and decided to play with yet another social networking site today. Just created a twitter account. Now the trick will be to actually update it in a timely fashion (just like this blog - yeah, right!). Anyway, we'll see how it goes.