Pix From a Swamper - Remembering Craig Chenell

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Re: Pix From a Swamper - Remembering Craig Chenell

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well heres a couple.. I havent posted anything in a while..

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On the spit in campbell

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VIA's pretty beech

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Jazz passing over

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That time of the year again.. the snowgeese are out
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North Shore wrote:Is that K.S. scowling through the left hand window?
Nope, if I'm right about who you mean, he wasn't flying with us this summer.
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BG was up there though. Did ya get a chance to fly with em?
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Rowdy wrote:BG was up there though. Did ya get a chance to fly with em?
Yea, flew with him a few times, great guy to learn from.
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Hey Rowdy

Great pictures of the YBL area looks as good as when I was there 24 years ago. Except the docks were full of airplanes in those days.
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One more. The camera caught our tanker with the probes retracted, water venting through the overflows just as the aircraft was rotating. Awesome!

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Hard to follow a 415 with a 2, but I'll try..
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ETA:Thanks to Cst. Hart, CZTM RCMP Detachment for the photo.
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Wonderful shots guys. :smt023
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Beautiful shot. I try one more

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Nice! Ours just came out of the paint shop...
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Great shots guys!!

As cool as that diesel duck is.. I've still got a soft spot for the 215's radials :wink:
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Great shots of the water bombers!

I'm sure some of you have seen this one before.

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Driving Rain wrote:One more. The camera caught our tanker with the probes retracted, water venting through the overflows just as the aircraft was rotating. Awesome!

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thanks to Derek Figueira @ http://www.dillpixels.ca
Good headwind and or close or almost at "Bingo". 215T comes out with probes down. But still were f... on the ball.
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jspitfire wrote:Great shots of the water bombers!

I'm sure some of you have seen this one before.

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What kind of plane is that one?
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^ Bristol Freighter, CF-TFZ, Beaver Lodge Lake NWT
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Heres a nice pic I forgot I had. I took this at Sudbury Aviation on Whitewater Lake early one morning while I was waiting for glassy water conditions to complete that part of my seaplane rating.

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Really nice images guys! Keep 'em coming!
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A few with the new camera. I love the low light performance of the 5DII!

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Nice shots JS,

Yes, the D3 is just silly in low-light, nice to see Canon has done a good job on the 5D.

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Here are a few of the thousands from Afghanistan last month. These are the more aviation related shots of the men and women of the Canadian Air Wing based at KAF. (Of course the first shot has Americans in it... but you get the point) I'll post more tomorrow, there's no shortage.

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A few more.

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More, please! Those are great!
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Fantastic as always STL. You really do capture the feeling with your lenses.
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Thank you, thank you so much.

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