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Hi, I'm Jon Berry and I'd like to welcome you to my site!

I am available for any type of photography as portrayed here in my galleries.

For booking info, contact me at: jonberryphoto@earthlink.net or call me at: 678-231-9220

Jon Berry is a member of the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the International Society for Aviation Photography (ISAP)

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2002 Mrs. Georgia International

P-51 Mustang "Luscious Lisa" - Gathering of Mustangs and Legends - Columbus, Ohio Sept. 2007

Prom Night

Shauna R. - Mrs. Georgia-America 2008

http://www.shaunarowland.com/home

Amanda

Casey

The Falls on Water's Creek, Dahlonega, Ga

Say yes and smile - and she did!

The Lone Cypress at Pebble Beach

Shauna R. - Mrs. Georgia-America 2008

http://www.shaunarowland.com/home

Greg Koontz Airshows Super Decathelon

Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco California 2007

Thoughtful Elegance.

Looking south at Atlanta in the rain and lightning.

Downtown Atlanta from the lake at Piedmont Park - Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta 75/85 downtown connector, GA Tech, Coca Cola and a bolt of light!

Diabetic Heaven

"Don't let daddy count all the way to three"

see it for yourself:http://www.topthistv.com/popup2.aspx?id=154 and vote for "Life Lessons"

F-16 Fighting Falcon - Gathering of Mustangs and Legends

Centennial Olympic Fountains in Atlanta, GA

Wind Power near Livermore, Ca
These windmills seemed to go for miles across every hilltop at least two rows deep. Its quite a sight to see!

Crunch!

Late 1976 - who? ...me? I was just standin' there... I wasn't doin' nothin'... ;-)

Face The Face
A Rose by any other name - at Chastain Park #1

Balloon Launch

Atlanta Falcon Cheerleaders

Atlanta Falcon Cheerleaders

Lighthouse - Diamondhead Light - Oahu, Hawaii

"Duggy - The Smile In The Sky" DC-3 captured a smile at AirVenture 2008 in OshKosh, Wisconsin

The Douglas DC-3 is an American fixed-wing, propeller-driven aircraft whose speed and range revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s. Because of its lasting impact on the airline industry and World War II, it is generally regarded as one of the most significant transport aircraft ever made.

Mingus Mill on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco from Vista Point near Horseshoe Bay

Mrs Norcross...on her way to Mrs. Georgia 2008 - Mrs Shuana Rowland

Atlanta Falcon Cheerleaders

The Eagles, Joe Walsh with Fender Telecaster - Eagles Hotel California tour Kansas City Arrowhead Stadium 1978

USAF Thunderbirds

USAF Thunderbirds

Gibson Les Paul Standard

The Blues: Black no sugar with a touch of Cream

Funny thing about the blues... you start to feel the knife that rips out your heart around the 5th or 7th - but it doesn't really lay into you until its above the 12th. At that point - you're done!

USAF Thunderbirds

Little Witch P 51 Mustang

Mount Hayden - Point Imperial
North Rim - Grand Canyon National Park - USA

The light was like this for only about 30 minutes, then as the sun got higher everything changed. The blue faded away and the reds and greens burst through. I feel blessed to have caught this momnet in time.

Lighthouse - Makapu'u Light, Oahu

Its a long walk - take water!

MIG-17F at Forth Worth Alliance Airshow 08

Atlanta Georgia in the light.

North American AT-6 Texan "Paradise" by Ken's Aviation.
North American AT-6A Texan "Paradise"
S/N: 41-16997
Registration: N90629
Pilot: Bob Ford
Operated by: Paradise Airshows

The Hood Angel

SPIRIT OF ECSTASY

"The Flying Lady"

The Spirit of Ecstasy is one of the most well known motor car mascot in the world. Designed by Charles Robinson Sykes, The Spirit of Ecstasy has adorned the radiators of Rolls-Royce motor cars since 1911. This wonderful mascot was modeled after a young woman who had bewitching beauty, intellect and esprit - but not the social status which might have permitted her to marry the man with whom she had fallen in love.

The model was Eleanor Velasco Thornton, whose relationship with John Walter Edward-Scott-Montagu remained a secret for over a decade, principally because both lovers acted with the utmost discretion. John Scott, heir to his father's title, was a pioneer of the automobile in England. From 1902 he was editor of the "The Car". Eleanor Thornton served as his secretary. Friends of the pair knew of their close relationship but they were sufficiently understanding as to overlook it.

A member of this circle of friends was the sculptor Charles S Sykes. Lord Montagu ordered t he creation of a special mascot for his Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost. The small statue depicted a young woman in fluttering robes having placed one forefinger to her lips. The sculptor had chosen Eleanor Thornton as model for this figurine, which was christened "The Whisper".

Lord Montagu had made the decision to put a mascot on top of the radiator, and it had become a fashion. Rolls-Royce had noted other owners of their cars following the new vogue, but doing so with questionable style by choosing mundane or even risqué and vulgar subjects.

Following Lord Montagu's commission, Charles Sykes was asked to create a mascot which in future would adorn every Rolls-Royce. In February 1911 he presented the "Spirit of Ecstasy", which was easily recognizable as being a variation on the theme of "The Whisper". The similarity was hardly coincidental because the model for both had been Miss Thornton.

The Spirit of Ecstasy was delivered by the Company with every Rolls-Royce. Each was done using the technique which was thousands of years old and known as the lost-wax method. This practice results in the mould's being destroyed to reveal the casting, which explains why no two figures are exactly alike. Sykes, assisted by his daughter Jo, remained responsible for manufacturing the Spirit of Ecstasy for many years. Likewise, each of the unique creations bore his signature on the plinth. The sculptures are either signed "Charles Sykes, February 1911" or sometimes "Feb 6, 1911" or "6.2.11". Even after Rolls-Royce took over the casting of the figures in 1948 each Spirit of Ecstasy continued to receive this inscription until 1951.

From 1911 to 1914 the Spirit of Ecstasy was silver-plated and thus many thought it a massive piece of precious metal - one reason for the frequent thefts. In smaller versions, and now made from highly polished nickel alloy, the radiator decoration has stood its ground on every Rolls-Royce, including those in the present range.

Over the years various alterations have been made. Those mascots for Rolls-Royce motor cars at the Springfield plant in the USA were modified. Bowing a little more forward no longer were they a danger to the bonnet. The original version had touched the bonnet sides when these were opened without the precaution having been taken of turning the figure sideways.

Royce did not like the Spirit of Ecstasy, which he judged her to be just a fashionable bauble and complained that she spoiled the clear line of the car's bow. The order to create the sculpture was given during the chief engineer's illness and had been absent. Thus it became a habit that Rolls-Royce cars used by Royce were rarely driven with a mascot in place.

Towards the end of the twenties the new body line of Sports Saloons had reduced the height of the coachwork. Royce was prompted to think about a lower variation of the Spirit of Ecstasy, by which alteration a driver might benefit from clear vision even with the windscreen lower and his seating position reduced in turn. Sykes created a kneeling version of the mascot, which fulfilled this requirement.

The kneeling version remained after the Second World War for the new Silver Wraith and Silver Dawn. All following models, however, sported a standing mascot, although this has now been reduced in size considerably compared to the old one.

Rarely, however, is the correct term "Spirit of Ecstasy" used - detractors remark this was only done at the factory in Crewe. The nickname "Emily" is widespread and Americans speak of the "Silver Lady" or the "Flying Lady".

In 1920 Rolls-Royce had taken part in a competition in Paris for the most apposite mascot in the world. This they did with a gold-plated Spirit of Ecstasy, which secured Rolls-Royce first place. From then on gold-plated versions of the Spirit of Ecstasy were available from the company - at an extra charge.

Safety regulations in some countries turned out to be a stumbling block to the fitting of the Spirit of Ecstasy. She qualified as a sharp-edged piece of metal jutting from the coachwork, which might injure a victim in an accident. because of this, in Switzerland during the second half of the seventies, the installation of mascots on Rolls-Royces was forbidden and purchasers of a new Rolls-Royce delivered to that country found their mascot in the glove compartment. The problem was solved with the Silver Spirit and Silver Spur; at the merest knock the Spirit of Ecstasy sank into the radiator surround and vanished out of harms way. Thus were the safety regulations satisfied.

The woman who had been the model for the radiator decoration, was not to appreciate its success. Eleanor Thornton lost her life when, on 30 December 1915, on the SS Persia, while on passage to India, was torpedoed off Crete by a German submarine. She had been accompanying Lord Montagu who had been directed to take over a command in India. He was thought to have been killed, too, but survived and was rescued a few days later by another ship. On his return to England he read the obituary articles in the newspapers about his own demise.

Blue Angel at Sunset - Ft. Worth Alliance Airshow 09

B-25 Mitchell "Panchito" - Vidalia Onion Festival Air Show 2008

Mara Davis - DaveFM 92.9

1957 - her 1st kiss - (by someone who knows how, baby!) Her name, I'm told, was Stephanie. Her mom (reaching) wasn't pleased with my behavior...

El Capitan from the valley floor- Yosemite National Park...

El Capitan - Yosemite National Park

Pelican Beach

Nicole's Nike on Falcon Turf

#57 Super Corsair at the Reno Air Races 2008

Atlanta Falcon Cheerleaders

North American AT-6 Texan "Paradise" by Ken's Aviation.
North American AT-6A Texan "Paradise"
S/N: 41-16997
Registration: N90629
Pilot: Bob Ford
Operated by: Paradise Airshows

High School! Prom

"Close your eyes and think of something good, then smile"

Goodyear F2G-1 Super Corsair #57

Banzai Pipeline, North Shore

Norcross Station and Norfolk Southern Railroad

Jumpin' Joe Ward - Concentratin' on hatin' that little white ball!

F-22 Raptor - Wings Over Marietta 08

AT-6 Aeroshell Demonstration Team at EAA AirVenture 2008 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. http://jonberryphoto.smugmug.com/gallery/5581889_iYXVt#342321869_sEWZi

Variously called the Texan (USAAF), Harvard (RAF), Yale, I-Bird, Mosquito, Wirraway (Australia), T-6 and SNJ (USN), the AT-6 appeared in 1940, a derivation of North American's NA-16 design drawn up for the 1937 Air Corp competition (which was won by the NA-16 incidentally). In all, over 17,000 aircraft were produced, not taking into account the numbers rebuilt from existing airframes, or others that used the AT-6 technology, such as the P-64 or Boomerang.

The AT-6 Texan became the classroom for the majority of the Allied pilots who flew in World War II, and trained several hundred thousand pilots in 34 different countries. It's basic design was as a trainer, with the characteristics of a high speed fighter, and was well suited to the intermediary task of training pilots before letting them loose in an actual fighter aircraft. Although not as fast as a fighter, it was easy to maintain and repair, had more maneuverability and was easier to handle. A pilot's airplane, it could roll, Immelmann, loop, spin, snap, and vertical roll. It was used to train pilots in all aspects of tactical operations, such as dog-fighting, ground strafing, carrier landings, and bombardment. It also included the capacity for fixed and flexible guns, cameras, and just about any other device that the military required.

The Texan is best known as a trainer, and is affectionately know as 'PILOT MAKER'. In the words of one airman ''The best machine ever built to turn gasoline into noise'.

Quoted from:http://www.aviationshoppe.com/AT-6-Texan.html

Waco JMF-7
Kyle Franklin is now performing an astonishing airshow act in Jimmy Franklin's original Waco Mystery Ship. This fast, loud, low, and aggressive act is a must have at any airshow, you will not find anywhere else in the world. Kyle puts this airplane through the ringer with the inverted flat spin, lomcevak, and many outside aerobatics, all performed to a fantastic soundtrack with a great storyline. With a big 450 horsepower engine on the front, the performance is truly spectacular with the tremendous power, smoke and noise.
The action is non-stop and the entire performance is kept in front of the crowd at all times and will be talked about for years to come.
http://www.franklinairshow.com/

F-22 Raptor - EAA Airventure - Oshkosh 08

"That's where i'm goin', now how do i get there?"

1984... I just didn't have a red Ferrari...

Zach Johnson was the winner of the 2007 at&t Classic at Sugarloaf on the first playoff hole with Ryuji Amada.

Dancing Aspens near the North Rim area of the Grand Canyon

Sunrise at Hawks Cay - Duck Key, Fl

Bellsouth Classic 2006

Oklahoma

P-51 D "Little Horse"
F-16 Fighting Falcon
F-15E Strike Eagle

F-22 Raptor - Wings Over Marietta 08

Fighting Falcon "Viper" in your face

Breitling Extra 300

Red Bull Helicoptor at Oshkosh AirVenture 08

Heritage Flight at AirVenture 2008 - Oshkosh, Wisconsin

F-22 Raptor

P-38 Lightning Glacier Girl

P-51 Mustang Excaliber

Blue Angels at the Vidalia Onion Festival Air Show 2008 - flying their FA/18s

T-6 Texan - powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-1340-49 Wasp radial engine

Atlanta from Piedmont Park

Fire Light

B2 Stealth Bomber

North American AT-6 Texan "Paradise" by Ken's Aviation.
North American AT-6A Texan "Paradise"
S/N: 41-16997
Registration: N90629
Pilot: Bob Ford
Operated by: Paradise Airshows

The Dance

The Circle

Blue Heaven - They say you don't have to die to get there!

Dusk on the Chattahoochee

Sunset off Makaha, Oahu Hawaii

Piper Cub from the sea base at Oshkosh Airventure 09

Fender Strat

Zoo Atlanta

The EXTRA 300SHP Unlimited Aerobatic Aircraft

New for 2006, Mike Goulian will perform and race in the EXTRA300SHP, the worlds newest custom-built premiere aerobatic aircraft. Michael, together with EXTRA�s engineers, developed and designed this aircraft to Michael�s specifications. Produced by EXTRA Aircraft of Europe, the 300SHP is lighter, faster and more maneuverable than any other aircraft of this type. It is the only aircraft of its kind to date. EXTRA�s reputation for excellent aerobatic aircraft gave Michael the confidence that his new aircraft would be second to none.http://www.mikegoulian.com/html/michael_goulian.html

USAF Thunderbirds

USAF Thunderbirds

The Conversation

The Iron Eagle Aerobatic Team fly two Super Christen Eagle I Aircraft. They are powered by a highly modified engine producing 320 hp. The aircraft originally came equipped with a 200 hp Lycoming engine, and equipped with 2 seats. The aircraft over a 3 year period were transformed from a sport aerobatic aircraft into one of only 4 single seat Eagles flying in the country today. The front seat was replaced with a 30 gallon Aerobatic fuel tank along with a 25 gallon auxiliary tank and a 11 gallon smoke tank in which they can also run fuel for long extended cross country flights. They can travel up to 750 miles before needing any fuel. The planes cruising speed at 50% power is 200 mph.
http://www.ironeagle2.com/home.html

AT-6 Aeroshell Demonstration Team at EAA AirVenture 2008 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
http://jonberryphoto.smugmug.com/gallery/5581889_iYXVt#342321869_sEWZi

Variously called the Texan (USAAF), Harvard (RAF), Yale, I-Bird, Mosquito, Wirraway (Australia), T-6 and SNJ (USN), the AT-6 appeared in 1940, a derivation of North American's NA-16 design drawn up for the 1937 Air Corp competition (which was won by the NA-16 incidentally). In all, over 17,000 aircraft were produced, not taking into account the numbers rebuilt from existing airframes, or others that used the AT-6 technology, such as the P-64 or Boomerang.

The AT-6 Texan became the classroom for the majority of the Allied pilots who flew in World War II, and trained several hundred thousand pilots in 34 different countries. It's basic design was as a trainer, with the characteristics of a high speed fighter, and was well suited to the intermediary task of training pilots before letting them loose in an actual fighter aircraft. Although not as fast as a fighter, it was easy to maintain and repair, had more maneuverability and was easier to handle. A pilot's airplane, it could roll, Immelmann, loop, spin, snap, and vertical roll. It was used to train pilots in all aspects of tactical operations, such as dog-fighting, ground strafing, carrier landings, and bombardment. It also included the capacity for fixed and flexible guns, cameras, and just about any other device that the military required.

The Texan is best known as a trainer, and is affectionately know as 'PILOT MAKER'. In the words of one airman ''The best machine ever built to turn gasoline into noise'.

Quoted from: http://www.aviationshoppe.com/AT-6-Texan.html

F-22 Raptor - the most lethal weapon in the world - EAA Airventure - Oshkosh 08

Great Blue Heron

Toy Caldwell of Marshal Tucker Band at the Kansas Coliseum late 1970's

The Bank Building from Piedmont Park - Atlanta, GA

Casey - Wedding shoot

Casey - Wedding shoot

Casey

North American AT-6 Texan "Paradise" by Ken's Aviation.
North American AT-6A Texan "Paradise"
S/N: 41-16997
Registration: N90629
Pilot: Bob Ford
Operated by: Paradise Airshows

The Beverly Hills Hotel - the real...

Hotel California

Welcome to the Hotel California,
Such a lovely place, (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California,
Any time of year, (Any time of year) You can find it here

Chicago

Georgia State Fair

Someone asked me if this was an Elephant's behind. Actually its an eye and part of its mouth!

Sunset off Mallory Square Key West 1996 - scanned Kodak film

Dawn at Hawks Cay - Duck Key, Fl

Atlanta Falcons at the Buckhead Diner

Young Superman

"Briefing Time" B-25 Mitchell in formation flight from the Air Force Museum honoring the Doolittle Raiders 2010.

The digital camouflaged (Digi-Cam) F-18F Hornet. CoNA - Centennial of Naval Aviation

F/A-18C Hornet CoNA - Centennial of Naval Aviation

Boeing 787 Dreamliner

T-33

67 Corvette Stingray

F-22 Raptor - Wings Over Marietta 08

A380 Airbus at Oshkosh AirVenture 09

Sweet and Lovely D3 414790
Bob Baker OK
P-51 Mustang at Oshkosh 09

Wedding in Trujillo Peru

Big Cats at Zoo Atlanta

F-22 Raptor with vapor burst and cloud

F-16 Viper - at Blue Angels Homecoming, Pensacola FL 08

F/A 18 Hornet - Wings Over Marietta 08

F-22 Raptor - Reno Air Races 08

F-22 Raptor - Oshkosh AirVenture 08

F-22 Raptor at Reno Air Races 08

P-51D-25NT "Cloud Dancer"

Waco JMF-7
Kyle Franklin is now performing an astonishing airshow act in Jimmy Franklin's original Waco Mystery Ship. This fast, loud, low, and aggressive act is a must have at any airshow, you will not find anywhere else in the world. Kyle puts this airplane through the ringer with the inverted flat spin, lomcevak, and many outside aerobatics, all performed to a fantastic soundtrack with a great storyline. With a big 450 horsepower engine on the front, the performance is truly spectacular with the tremendous power, smoke and noise.
The action is non-stop and the entire performance is kept in front of the crowd at all times and will be talked about for years to come.http://www.franklinairshow.com/

F/A-18 HORNET Blue Angels at the Vidalia Onion Festival Air Show 2008

Navy Blue Angels #1 and Lcdr Paul Brantuas

B-25 Mitchell "Panchito" - Vidalia Onion Festival Air Show 2008

Last week - when dad was still in the hospital, my sister and her husband and Debbie stopped on the way to dinner to get this shot. It's a little surreal as well - and I know you can read anything into anything. But this death thing is an odyssey to me - as I thankfully haven't seen that much in my life.

But from a Christian point of view...

It is a strange lead engine with Road markings that don't belong on a Union Pacific train. - Like an outsider who has come for one purpose. (as in the Dark Stranger in Rendezvous in Samara)

Missouri Pacific RR was bought out by Union Pacific. MOPAC was dad's last railroad job. This is on the Union Pacific tracks once owned by MOPAC

It is covered in blood red on the front - covering the blackness that lie beneath and behind. Somewhat like the blood of the Lamb that covers our sins.

It is pulling out of Enid station - not into it.

The train is leaving the station - much like Dad was leaving the building.

It is leaving the dark side of the picture and heading toward the light side.

There is no visible engineer.

People get ready
Theres a train a-coming
You dont need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Dont need no ticket
You just thank the lord

-- Curtis Mayfield

A funny co-incidence, Someone arranged for an unusual escort. Dad was buried in a small cemetery outside of Carrier, Oklahoma. As we sat facing the casket at the grave side - you could see in the distance a railroad line about a 1/4 mile away.

Dad had at one time worked for the railroads before he took a job at Boeing and we lived in Wichita about the same distance away from the Santa Fe rail line for a while when I was a kid.

Just as the Coast Guard Color Guards were preparing to fold the flag and with the first note of Taps played by the Bugler - a BNSF train started blowing its horn as it approached the crossing - on key - with the bugler and blew the whole time it was being played. So, during the playing of Taps, that train went by in the distance back of the casket - between the top of the casket and the bottom of the flag as they held it. I took the opportunity to lean over to my sister and whisper: "you know BNSF is the same as the Santa Fe that ran past our house in Wichita". Had we been about 2 inches shorter, it would have looked like the train ran from left to right - head to toe, across the top of the casket.

It was surreal in a way - and to be honest, i wished i had my camera in hand at that moment.

As the last car of the train finally went by the end of the casket, the Color Guard knelt down and handed me the flag and said something about how the President and a grateful nation thanked us for my dad's service to this country during WWII.

And that was it. We stood alone in the Oklahoma morning, the wind blew as it does in those parts, the sun shown and we walked away knowing for the rest of us, life goes on.

Waimea Bay Rainbow - North Shore O'ahu Hawaii

Mrs. Georgia - Shauna Rowland

Happy New Year from Ewa Beach Hawaii

CSX 6220 at Vinings Station in the rain

Atlanta Georgia at sunrise.

Atlanta Falcons Cheerleaders

Golden Gate from Fort Point National Historic Site - San Francisco

Ducks in a row?

Atlanta Falcons and Arthur Blank

Open Wide - Great Panda at Zoo Atlanta

The Circle Dance

The Byodo-In Temple was built in the 1960's to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Japanese immigrant workers in Hawaii who came to work in the sugar plantation fields. It is a replica of the 950-year-old Byodoin Temple located in Uji, Japan on the southern outskirts of Kyoto.
from: http://gohawaii.about.com/od/oahusights/ss/byodo_in_temple.htm

Key West Boats

Lake Cherokee, near Jefferson City, TN

The Falls on Water's Creek, Dahlonega, Ga

Atlanta at night

Sunset from Makaha, Oahu Hawaii

Lt. Dan Band w/ Gary Sinise at the Theater in the Woods, EAA Airventure 2011

F/A-18C Hornet CoNA - Centennial of Naval Aviation

Marine AV-8B Harrier II

Downtown Wichita, Kansas - left to right - Metropolitan Baptist Church, Arkansas River and the Douglas street bridge, the old Broadview Hotel, the round building is the Century II Center and the tall building was for a long time the tallest building in Kansas... started out as a Holiday Inn - but who knows what it is today!

Ed Hamill
The Dream Machine is a factory built biplane designed and first built by Curtis Pitts over fifty years ago. This biplane design was inspired and modeled after the very first airplane designs, including two wings, fly wires and fabric covering. This design can be seen in aerobatic competitions today as well as airshows all over the world. The biplane design captures the true romance of what airshows are all about. http://www.edhamill.com/

Wedding in Trujillo Peru

The Keeper of the Plains is a 44-foot tall steel sculpture standing at the point where the Big and Little Arkansas rivers join together in downtown Wichita. This land between the two rivers is sacred ground to the Native American people and is also home to the All-American Indian Center. The Indian Warrior sculpture was created by Wichitan and Native American artist Blackbear Bosin (1921-1980). This icon of Wichita was erected on May 18, 1974 to celebrate the United States Bi-centenial and has kept a watchful eye on the city ever since.

Decades later the Keeper of the Plains now has an even larger view of Wichita. A complete renovation of the sculpture and instalation of the Keeper of the Plains Plaza now brings people out each evening to see the Keeper and the "Ring of Fire" starting at dusk and the top of each hour for 15 minutes. The 5-ton Keeper of the Plains statue is now 30 feet higher than before with it's new pedestal. There are also two suspended foot bridges allowing people to cross from the north and south directions to the plaza at the base of the Keeper. Part of the $20 million dollar river corridor improvement project, the statue can now be seen over the trees and buildings that have sprung up over the years along the river.

As the story goes... one hot summer day, after many days of drought, a man took off all his clothes and preceded to do a rain dance right there under the statue. In plain site of many cars passing by on McLean Avenue, the police were called and just as it started to sprinkle, the man was arrested and hauled off to jail. The rain stopped and didn't begin again for over two weeks.
Another fine story from the peerless princess of the plains...

F-22 Raptor

F-22 Raptor EAA AirVenture - Oshkosh Wisconsin 2008

1973 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe and 1956 human male with mustache

Blue Angels "Fat Albert" JATO takeoff at the Vidalia Onion Festival Air Show 2008

"The squadron's Transport C-130 hercules aircraft, affectionately known as Fat Albert, is the only Marine Corps aircraft permanently assigned to support a Navy squadron. It is flown by an all-Marine Corps crew of three pilots and five enlisted personnel. Fat Albert flies more than 140,000 miles during the course of a show season.

The C-130 carries 25,000 pounds of cargo, 45,000 pounds of fuel, and transports the squadron's support and maintenance crew to each show site.

Fat Albert cruises at 320 knots (approximately 350 miles per hour) at 27,000 feet. Four Allison turboprop-engines producing more than 16,000-shaft horsepower provide the C-130 with the power to land and depart on runways as short as 2,500 feet.

At select show sites, Fat Albert demonstrates its Jet-Assisted Take-Off (JATO) capability. Eight solid-fuel rockets are attached to the sides of the aircraft, four on each side. The rockets allow Fat Albert to take off within 1,500 feet, climb at a 45-degree angle, and attain an altitude of 1,500 feet in seconds."

http://blueangels.com/fatalbertairlines.shtml

Mrs Georgia - On top of the world!

The end of the line.

Santa Fe EMD FP45 War Bonnet #93 - Wichita Train Museum

West of Waimea Bay - North Shore, O'ahu

Crawford Convalescent Home - North Shore O'ahu

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the worlds a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama dont take my kodachrome away

Downtown Atlanta from the Georgia Tech parking deck.

Great Smoky Mountain Railroad GP-9 777

Left leaving - the sadness of water under the bridge and the happiness of the blue. The disturbing dichotomy of life's blows.

Camille

Camille

Simply Amanda!

Atlanta Falcons Cheerleaders

NGB Cheerleading squad in mid cheer

P-51 Mustang

Reflecting where I've been and seeing where I'm headed...

from under the Exploratorium - San Francisco

The Canyons of Chicago

Midway

30,31,32,33

Not in my corner you don't! Zoo Atlanta

Death or Dormant?

Lighthouse - Diamondhead Light

Centenial Olympic Park Atlanta

Deer on the Skyline Drive, Virginia

North Georgia in color season near Hiawassee.

S2000 on the Tail of the Dragon US 129. 318 Curves in 11 miles of 2 lane blacktop.

Port O' Call Benefit Fashion show for Ronald McDonald House

Waimea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu Hawaii at sunrise.

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