Like An Old Postcard

I thought I'd take this slightly strange image and add to its mystery by making it look like a time-worn, faded old print photo from several decades back.  I think it works -- perhaps even a bit too well;  now, when I look at it I feel a vague sense of nostalgia, with a tinge of sadness.  It reminds me of the time when my mother showed me how she'd kept all my old school tests in a box in the attic, the old newsprint sheets all yellowed and crackly and just about falling apart.  I miss you, mom.

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Yet Another One

"Stumpy"

Just looks odd.

Where Heaven And Earth Touch II

 

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Better Late

This image is a particular favorite of mine.  Not only is the "ray beam" perfectly delineated with hard-looking edges like a laser beam cutting through the mist, but the fortuitous inclusion of an airplane in the shot really makes it seem like some old war footage or maybe a scene from some retro-futuristic dieselpunk science fiction movie (I'm thinking *Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)).  The previous post reminded me of it and I wanted to revisit it, but I couldn't remember the posting date, so I looked up a few obvious key words.  I was surprised by the negative result, so I searched them again, and again it came up blank.  I kept looking up other key words, and eventually I ended up checking the entire archive (that took a while) -- no result!

I had been so certain that this photo would be somewhere in this blog, but the unexpected conclusion is that I never did post it.  So here it is at last (with plenty of keywords), "The Searchlight".

*An alternate-reality feature starring Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and an army of giant robots

Yet Another One Of Those Shots

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Anticipation II

Another Contrail Photo

Spur-Of-The-Moment

Like... Ships That Pass In The Night

With apologies to Longfellow^

Another "Two Of My Favorite Things Together"

 

One More Instance Of

"Gee, I didn't know airplanes could turn like that."  The G-force as the plane made that turn must have been stupendous. 

Spur-Of-The-Moment

While visiting touristy BukChon, I happened upon this establishment with symbolic bird carvings out front.  While photographing one of them juxtaposed with the real thing in the background, I happened to see an aircraft forming a vapor trail far off (middle shot, center left).  And of course, I immediately realized the potential.

Another Contrail Photo

Haven't done one of these in some time, it seems.  This one deserves at least a peripheral mention.  Not least because in the neighboring parallel universes to either side of this one this photo would be showing that vapor trail a second before and a second after that crucial target point, and therefore considered unworthy to be posted here.