[Leica] The death of aardvarks

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Thanks to everyone for your comments and recollections.

I had to take the pictures standing by a tall slatted fence, holding
the camera up as far as I could and pointing it in what I hoped was
the right direction, then bringing it down, looking at the preview,
and reshooting. A definite digital advantage.

I have passed this aviation junk yard for the past 15 years - but
always during mid-day and always in the middle of a 12 or 13 hour
drive. This time we stopped in Mojave over night so I had plenty of
time. A bypass was built around Mojave so the road is must less used
than it was in the past. I hurried because the sun was setting. Just
moments after I made the posted image the sun vanished.

Further east, on the west side of Barstow, there is a junk yard of
city buses that also is calling to me, some of them look pristine,
others well covered in graffitti - maybe taggers come there to
practice before displayng their skills in the real world? One wonders.

Adam


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:36:13 -0500, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> And a nice shot, Adam.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Jim Nichols
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:50 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] The death of aardvarks
> 
> Adam,
> 
> That's a sad sight, to see where the F-111 ended up.  I spent many a
> night helping with the operation of wind tunnel facilities during the
> development of the engine-inlet system.  A very sophisticated airplane
> that was asked to be everything for everyone, and consequently was never
> best at anything.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com>
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Date: 3/15/2005 10:20:32 PM
> > Subject: [Leica] The death of aardvarks
> >
> > <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2005/03/15/_L3U0974.jpg>
> >
> > Photographed outside the Civilian Flight Test Center, Mojave, CA.
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