Your Great Photographic Moments?

[Christine Aguila]

Peter:  Great story!  Glad no one was hurt.  Enjoyed reading this.  Thanks. 
Cheers, Christine


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "P. J. Alling" <webster26 at mindspring.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: Your Great Photographic Moments?


> In a way my greatest photographic moment is a shot I didn't take.  There
> is a private air museum in Old Rhienbeck, New York, dedicated to WWI
> aircraft.  On a family outing when I must have been at most 12 years
> old, I was taking photographs of the old biplanes taking off and
> landing.  Well it was a very special afternoon because the museum had
> just completed restoration of a DH2 pursuit, (fighter to the
> uninitiated), plane.  The restoration effort had taken about  10 years
> and this was to be it's first flight since being stored in a barn
> sometime in the 1920's.  Well the plane took off and flew beautifully.
> However on landing just as it reached the part of the field where I was
> stationed the damned thing ground looped, took a right angle turn and
> headed directly for me and about a hundred other people propeller
> windmilling, me cranking the film advance and shooting away...
>
> Luckily for the me, and the rest of the audience, there was a
> reproduction WWI ambulance and a restored Renault Light Tank that were
> too close together for the DH2 to squeeze between them, and the plane
> was brought to a halt with a great splintering of wood and riping of
> canvas.  The plane was rolled off the field for another 10 years of
> restoration, and dammit all if not a single shot came out well enough to
> show anyone...
>
> Christine Aguila wrote:
>> Hi Everyone:
>>
>> I hope you don't find this request tiresome, but given the great
>> international reach, the delightfully varied life experiences and
>> photographic interests, and the endless talent of the list, I'd love to 
>> hear
>> stories about your greatest photographic moments.  Anyone willing to 
>> share a
>> story or 2?
>>
>> Cheers, Christine
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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