[Leica] IMG: Sky Replacement - First Attempt.

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks, Douglas.

You are correct about the assembly.  It was assembled at a Goodyear 
facility referred to as Wingfoot Lake, by an international crew from 
Germany's ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik and Goodyear.

On 11/3/20 5:54 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> That looks good, Jim. Great job!
> Airships are fascinating. I know that airships like the Hindenburg and 
> Graf Zeppelin, crisscrossed the Atlantic, but they had much bigger 
> engines. I wonder how they managed to take Wingfoot from Germany 
> across the pond to deliver it to Goodyear. I presume they just took 
> the pieces over and assembled it in your country?
>
> Douglas
>
> On 03/11/2020 03:17, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Three years ago, one of the new Goodyear Blimps, which are actually 
>> dirigibles, made an overnight stop in Tullahoma, arriving about 
>> sundown and well ahead of its support truck and anchor tower.  It 
>> hovered over the grass area between the runways, and the crew was 
>> kind enough to enable me have several views as I walked around on the 
>> rough grass area. Unfortunately, the sky was free of any clouds to 
>> catch the sunset.  With Photoshop 2021, I was able to improve one of 
>> the images, at least in my humble estimation, by doing a sky 
>> replacement.  Since I am not layer-literate like some PS users, I 
>> kept it fairly simple.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20171013-DSCF5884.JPG.html
>>
>> For Douglas, I made it LARGE.
>>
>
>
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Jim Nichols
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