Pix From a Swamper - Remembering Craig Chenell

[bezerker]

STL, the waterfall is across from "yellow bluff" near the barge camp at the intersection of the Taku and Tulsequah, the next one is 10 miles away, the glacier at the head of the Tulsequah. Both taken in an Otter. The alpine lakes picture was actually taken earlier in the day with a King Air. We were trying to sneak into Tombstone on the way back from Chapman Lake, but it was a bit rough and we chickened out. I know it is difficult for you helicopter types to comprehend pictures taken more than 200 miles apart from each other in the same day
The mass of granite is the same one Sheephunter has in an awesome photo taken from Glacier Lake a few posts earlier (the one with the photogenic stump). "The Cirque of the Unclimbables" in the NWT just across the border from the YT. http://www.geocities.com/gibell.geo/cir ... s_can.html

[sheephunter]

STL,

Thanks for keeping an ear out for those covers. Someone may as well be using them. I'll be home again about the time someone might be looking. The peak in berzerkers photos is the same one at the back of one of mine posted above.

[iflyforpie]

Some pics from the other day.

[sky's the limit]

I know it is difficult for you helicopter types to comprehend pictures taken more than 200 miles apart from each other in the same day

Thanks for the explanations!

Lol, you forget I used to be one of you... I have plenty of photos from "miles apart...." on the same day! Does Jamaica to Mexico count??? (1050nm)

We've definitely got Yukon/Nwt covered in this thread eh?

stl

[sheephunter]

OK, Let's go SW Quebec.

[SkyWolfe]

iflyforpie,

Who'se machine is that? Where are ya flying out of? Do they need a 205/206 driver

[iflyforpie]

Babin Air's. Invermere BC. 206 300HP Sportsman STOL on wheels.

It sure would be nice to have a day off sometime cuz I'm the only one flying it right now. We need someone with over 1000hrs for insurance and to be approved for ministry work. Throw us a resume if you'd like

[Spinner]

As for the old photo, it's Pickle Lake, the Central Air Transport dock. I flew there then... perhaps we know each other?

Pickle lake in the early 80's perhaps 82 or 83. I worked as an engineer/loader/miracle worker for Central then.

[Adam Oke]

Swampin' cropduster style.


Air Tractor AT-502


AT-502 and C-188 Ag Truck


Spray Boom on the -502

[sky's the limit]

In between building net loads to sling to camp last night - I guess I am my own "swamper" - I took these... It's at an airstrip, so I figure they count...

stl

[Adam Oke]

Do you edit your photo's at all? Or does thousands of dollars in camera and some skill just make them turn out so damn good!

[sky's the limit]

Do you edit your photo's at all? Or does thousands of dollars in camera and some skill just make them turn out so damn good!

Hi Adam,

All of the above.

There's a misconception about digital photography, that is: if you use programs like Adobe Photoshop or Light Room, you're "playing" with the shots... In ALL photography, forever, colour or black and white, "processing" has been a HUGE factor in achieving good results. Ansel Adams for example was a darkroom master, which was as big a factor in his outstanding success as his composition or subjects.

How much you "process" is another thing entirely. With the digital processing, you have SO MANY more options than you did on film, slide or B&W, so you can go to extremes. For me, I never edit content, ie. taking things out of, or inserting things into shots. I try very hard to frame a picture properly the first time, although without 20 lenses to play with (only three right now, soon to be four), this can be difficult depending on subject matter. I will process colour and light however, or remove dust spots etc, and cropping of course.

Unless you shoot in RAW format - which I only do in challenging light conditions, or for something that will be printed say 40in X 60in - the camera will apply a "program," or "White Balance" to your shots. This is simply a manufacturer's setting for colour, light levels, saturation, contrast etc. In RAW, this doesn't happen, you see what the camera "sees," so the unprocessed shots look greyish and dull - YOU apply the the processing. RAW stores vastly more info as it's not compressed as a Jpeg is. So the latitude to "play" is much greater.

When shooting Jpegs, the camera is applying the program, in my case, the Nikon D3 has probably the most advanced "Auto White Balance" ever made, so 90% of the time, I shoot in Jpeg, on Auto White balance in either aperture priority, or for action, shutter priority. This camera FAR out peforms my old Canon 1D Mk II is this department. Ok, in every department...

So, there's a really long answer for a really short question!

Hope that helps...

stl

[ScudRunner]

We've definitely got Yukon/Nwt covered in this thread eh?

Can't imagin why

[sky's the limit]

We've definitely got Yukon/Nwt covered in this thread eh?

Can't imagin why

I can. Sitting on me arse.... Getting bedsores this last week.... argh. Home tomorrow.

stl

[iflyforpie]

Some more snapshots from the summer.

[sky's the limit]

Was up visiting the nice folks at Great Slave Helicopters in Yellowknife last week, here's a few of the 700 shots I took....














stl

[sky's the limit]

Couple more....

Anybody using Lightroom 2.0 by chance???






Never thought I'd use the term "flight deck" on an "intermediate" helicopter, but I think this qualifies... The EC 130 is one hell of a ship, smooth, and very powerful. Not to mention the vis... And that's 24,000hrs attached to the cyclic. Thanks ..

[bezerker]

Try Lightroom 2.0 for yourself.

1160-4302-6203-4252-7588-3406
1160-4805-3936-4434-1534-1692
1160-4324-0037-3128-3062-2459
1160-4330-5444-6410-5351-9100

(for Mac)

[xsbank]

Umm, aren't you sitting on the wrong side of that thing? That is a neat looking helo (my kids used to call them hop-i-copters). How come that 500 has pollen sacs like a bee? Tanks? Lunch kit?

ps Is that a piece of yarn on the window?

What are those numbers, berzerker?

[Adam Oke]

ps Is that a piece of yarn on the window?

I noticed that too. Didn't think twice because that's standard equiptment on gliders for turn coordination ... I guess you questioning it makes me think twice if that actually is a yaw string or not.

[Adam Oke]

Here's a bit of a slide show of an C-188 Ag Truck coming in with canola either side in bloom.


I really like this one because of the heat off the runway blurring the approach. Cool effect.


For you winglet lovers.

[sky's the limit]

Umm, aren't you sitting on the wrong side of that thing? That is a neat looking helo (my kids used to call them hop-i-copters). How come that 500 has pollen sacs like a bee? Tanks? Lunch kit?

ps Is that a piece of yarn on the window?

What are those numbers, berzerker?

It's Yaw String. Standard equipment on Eurocopter machines. $3 million ship, comes with yarn... But, it works like a charm. I far prefer them to turn/bank indicators.

Quite few machines have you sitting on the left, we do in the 500, some Astar's, the EC 130, 120, etc. It's nice for long lining etc, and you can fit an extra passenger, but there are other issues with it.

The pods on the 500 are baggage space. We don't run those at our company, we use the Pod which hangs under, and holds a lot more.

stl

[Adam Oke]

One of the strips I used to tow gliders off of in New Zealand. Was a blast! Only runway I've flown with 2 slopes; lateral and long. Can you spot the runway? It was popular because of its know location as a wave producer. Unfortunatly there is zero population and it's only farm land. In fact the drive to the airfield consisted of off roading through numerous cow and sheep pastures opening and closing gates .... the runway its self is a sheep pasture.

Fortunatly for this runway, if you had an engine failure immediatly on take off it wasn't so bad because you had 500ft to play with again.

[seniorpumpkin]

I've read (in "Stick and Rudder") that the only flight instrument that the wright brothers used was a piece of string hanging off a rod sticking out in front of the plane. It was used as an angle of attack indicator. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me!

[grover]

not quite the work of a swamper, but memories just the same