Gary Edwards <edwardsg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have often been thankful that I took up photography, even when I didn't
have a camera along. Photography has certainly taught me to SEE and enjoy
the visual poetry of experiences such as the one Chris described. Why,
just the other day I was out on a site survey, enjoying the magnificent
view below me as the light turned golden and wishing I had my OM-4T and 85
f/2. Just as I was about to remark on it to my companion, some crazed
Limey in a homely old bomber bounced us and durn near blew the doors off
our helicopter. Looked like he thought he was flying a real jet, like a
Charlie model F-16. Certainly distracted me from the view... ;-)
Don't laugh too hard, Gary. My story is similar, and it even actually
happened :-)
A couple of weeks ago, we had some nice, dry weather in Seattle, and I
headed up into the mountains with my OM-2 and various lenses 28-100mm. I
found a nice little lake in the Snoqualmie Pass area. I walked around it,
taking photographs of the fall colors. Fall colors here are nothing like
the New England of my childhood. But it was still quite nice, especially
with the surrounding Cascade peaks in view. A bit of vine maple here and
there contributed a few red accents to the general green and yellow.
All of a sudden, my reverie was shattered by two fighter jets who came
screaming into the lake basin at a very low altitude, arced around the far
shore of the lake and zoomed out of view through a cleft between two peaks.
Startled the bejeebers out of me and totally freaked out the ducks on the
lake. A while later the jets returned, and I caught one on film, albeit
out of focus. I had much better luck with the ducks. After they
recovered, they swam in formation across the lake, and I got several nice
shots of their wakes on the absolutely calm lake, with a reflection of the
surrounding mountains in the water.
(Sorry, can't post any of the pictures--no scanner. Maybe some day.)
I don't know military aircraft, but I suspect the planes were Navy jets
from the nearby Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, defending Snoqualmie Pass
against foreign aggression. The planes were white (or silver and white)
with red trim. Hard to tell exactly--they were *fast*. And LOUD.
Peter "Top Gun my A**!" Klein
--- Peter
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