Picture A Day – 2 July 2009

I love where I sit at work.  I really do.  I’ve got a pretty decent view and occasionally I even get to see aircraft flying by.  Sometimes it’s lower, closer civil traffic out of North Las Vegas.

2 July 2009 - My own little airshow

Other times it’s cool stuff out of Nellis Air Force Base 8)  This is a C-5 Galaxy, but I’ve also seen B-1 Lancers, F-15 Eagles, and F-16 Vipers

2 July 2009 - Cropped to show the C-5 Galaxy

Again, here’s another reason I love my camera   Yes, this was zoomed all the way in and yes, this is cropped out of the first picture in this post, but the fact remains that it’s a usable image   This would not have been possible with my old camera as it was only six megapixels and only had a three power zoom.  The Canon Powershot A1000 IS features ten megapixels which is a much larger image size and has a four power zoom.  All of this comes in handy in a big way

I just know I’m going to have a BLAST with this camera at the next airshow I go to   Of course, I know I’m going to have to stock up on batteries and get a couple of 32GB SD cards for that