Disperser Tracks

There was a year (or maybe two) when the Thunderbirds were grounded because politicians are assholes. Luckily, other pilots stepped up for the USAFA graduation ceremonies. You can read about it HERE.

Those photos were taken with my big 80-400mm telephoto lens. They were quite the distance away, but I think the lens performed admirably in capturing them. 

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Most well-known teapots are made elsewhere (England, France, Germany and so on). This one is US made. It may not show it, but it’s brown with yellow/orange trim. 

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The third installment of the Musem of Flight is HERE.

In case people are wondering, I’m cranking these out way ahead of time. I’m hoping rushing through these won’t affect the quality of the posts . . . I like to maintain a mediocre to low status; any surge in quality is purely accidental and will be immediately rectified.

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Until you start collecting stuff, you don’t realize how much of any one thing is out there. Once you get interested in something, you’ll notice them pretty much anywhere you go and no matter what you do. Such was the case with collecting teapots and teacups. 

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For them who haven’t peeked ahead, HERE‘s the second post covering my visit to the Museum of Flight. 

I link all of these old posts but I know full well the only people even remotely likely to click on those links are people who have already seen those posts because they are regular readers and regularly comment. Everyone else is too busy to do much more than glance at something in between biting down on their falafel while scrolling through their e-mails and tracking their Twitter feed for the latest Trumpism. 

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The design of that teapot made it look like the pot was born to pour liquid for a living. You can almost imagine it tilting to the left and amber elixir pouring out of the spout. The pot itself was fairly worn, but a judicial application of Topaz effects returns it to its former glory.

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Posts with or about airplanes always seem to do well . . . HERE‘s one. By the way, that’s Part 1 of 3. You can certainly read all three parts now, but I will be linking the other two in the next two Project 313 posts. 

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I think all this processing and choosing frames helps give me a good handle on color combinations that might work well together. Or, not; you be the judge.

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In the 12 years I lived in Colorado, I only made it to three USAF graduations ceremonies. 

THIS post has the photos from the second instance. Usually, the graduation ceremony and the flyovers are scheduled during the workweek so it wasn’t easy for me to attend. In this instance, we got to the place Melisa had scouted and had a pretty good view of the Thunderbirds and they even flew right over us during a few of their turns. All in all, not bad. 

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Dang, but gold goes well with blue!

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