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Take me home!

By Dave | Published: April 30, 2011

Taken at Orlando International Airport (MCO) Posted via email from Dave Schumaker’s Posterous

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Some things are better left unsaid

By Dave | Published: April 26, 2011

(I’m currently on a plane, en route to Florida for the STS-134 NASA Tweetup.) A British couple behind me are looking out the window and ask a flight attendant if that’s the Grand Canyon below us and to our left. She says yes, so I look out and see that it’s actually Valley of the [...]

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Some photos from Fleet Week 2010

By Dave | Published: October 9, 2010

Here are some photos I shot during yesterday’s air show practice for Fleet Week 2010 here in San Francisco. For this year’s show, I rented a gigantic 400mm lens from BorrowLenses.com. You can see the full set here. How crazy was this 400mm lens? Check out this photo of myself and Marcie Lynn (a fantastic [...]

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They’re back!

By Dave | Published: October 7, 2010

It’s Fleet Week 2010 here in San Francisco. And so begins four days of jets flying over San Francisco, to the excitement of some and the ire of others! I took this photo from the top of our office building in SOMA today with a Nikkor 400mm f/2.8 lens. The thing weighs more than I [...]

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Tanker 910

By Dave | Published: September 25, 2009

Earlier this week, my parents took some photos of Tanker 910 flying over their house while fighting a fire near their home. Tanker 910 is a converted DC-10 that is specifically equipped to drop fire retardant. Here is video of Tanker 910 making drops near another fire near my parents’ house earlier this month: And [...]

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