Air Show!

Yesterday we went to the local air show. It was amazing! Not as good as the past few years, there weren't as many airplanes, but still spectacular. We don't like to pay for actual tickets to see it, but there is a certain parking lot close by that gives us a good view of the planes. This year (like every year) the Blue Angels were there in their jets. I'm not sure what kind of plane they are, I'll have to ask my brother, but they're big and fast and loud and just a bit scary when they pop over a building behind you and you're not expecting it. The Blue Angels (I kept typing the 'Blur Angels' by accident! Lol!) were last in the show 'cause they were the main attraction and if they put them first everyone would be leaving right after and not stickin' around for the others. Anywho, *get back on track here, girl* here's a few pics I took of them:

Note that the plane on the left and the plane on top (you can't see it really well) are inverted here. Dad was zooming in close on the computer, looking at this pic, and you can actually see the pilot's helmet!

They turned out pretty good, didn't they? These were a few of the best of the ones I got. It was hard to get a good picture because they go so low and fast. My camera didn't really have a big problem with the 'low' and 'fast' parts, but I sure did. My first instinct was to get as close to the ground as possible. Especially the one time a plane snuck up behind and buzzed us! There are six of 'em; four fly together (for the most part) and the fifth and sixth fly separately. So as long as the four stuck together and you could see them, it wasn't as hard to avoid being startled by one behind you. It was amazing how they could go straight up and fly upside down and do all of their stunts perfectly synchronized with each other.

Before those six came out, 'Fat Albert' was flying around, and I wish I had gotten a few photos of him. Fat Albert is the one that carries all the crew and equipment around. Once he was coming up at us to fly low over the crowd (we were behind the crowd at the airport), and was just floating along, then the pilot pointed the nose almost straight at me! I knew it wasn't going to crash, but it was rather scary seeing this HUGE plane coming at me!

Please note the poll I put up. Dad was teasing me about when one plane came up from behind and I didn't see it coming. Since I was kneeling on the ground (to hold the camera steadier), I followed my gut instinct and hit the deck. Now Dad is bugging me about it and telling me that 'hiding under blades of grass won't do ya any good!' and stuff like that.

Sorry there isn't any new art news. Of course, photography is an art form, so technically there is artistic content in here :^).

I'm going to go now. There might be some more airplane pics on the next post. TTYL!

~Kiwifruit

P.S. I got a really bad sunburn from yesterday! My arms are burnt and my knees are burnt and my forehead is burnt and they all hurt, especially when my friends (not knowing I'm burnt) came up and hugged me at church today, and now they'll do it at youth group, too (at least, the ones who don't know I'm burnt will). And the leader will (I'm sure) come up and tap me on the shoulder or arm and I'll scream in agony. Or we'll play a game that involves running and the ocasional shoving and I'll end up screaming in agony.

~Baked Kiwifruit