Living in two active flight paths should give me some photo opportunities. You would think! I live on an active bird migratory pathway as well as the approach to an international airport which also serves as a base for the Air National Guard. How cool would it be to get a picture of geese in formation adjacent to an F-something on a practice run?! The first thing I learned is that geese migrate seasonally. So there was an absence of geese formations viewable from my backyard for months. I also think that geese have to practice forming Vs and Ws because the first couple of months' worth of sightings were not well formed. Finally, I learned that pilots may actively try to avoid bird flocks. Thus the hope of getting a fighter jet and a flock of geese in the same frame would only be possible perhaps with Photoshop which I'm not particularly adept at and I generally only use it to crop an image or tweak the contrast. Voila! No fighter jet.
I have used this snapshot previously in this series. I keep coming back to it because I suspect that the two groups of planes are the same-perhaps some darkroom manipulation? They probably are military planes-who but the military had a fleet of planes to be put up in formation? Certainly not Fedex, yet.
This photoblog is a self-assignment challenge where I take pix based on old vernacular snapshots I buy in thrift or antique stores. Part of the challenge is finding snapshots for less than a buck. The original snapshot is posted on the left and my interpretation/contemporary view is on the right. I do not find an old photo and then dig through my archives to find a good match. The original pic served as a base or starting point. The interpretation may be straight forward or somewhat obtuse.