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Category Archives: Northern Virginia
My first spring day on a par-3 course after a L O N G winter, paired up with two men (one of whom is a Real Golfer), and I start my season with this shot:
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March 21, 2010 - 7:27 pm
nice shot!! i’ve never played golf outside of putt-putt. Actually I take that back. In high school at PE we went to a driving range, the birdie I hit was actually flying by at the time… not so good.
a license plate on a parked car caught my eye so I put my car in park and jumped out, ran around the front and over to the right and snapped a picture for my friend. horns are honking (among other gestures) and busy people are crazy — they have places to go. I know. so do I.
it was worth traffic distractions to get this shot for my friend — in hindsight, the effort gave us a good laugh, even if the wrong numbers rendered the photo moot (her love is an A-10 pilot.) I can’t keep those A- and F-plane number sequences straight. the Cs are easy, they come with word associations (Nightingale, Tube of Pain, Willing & Able etc.)
if you are a BMW aficionado, live in Northern Virginia and fly an A36, let me know and I’ll get you a print.
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September 13, 2010 - 2:28 pm
Just happened across your blog as I want to learn more about photography… but as a veteran, I had to let you know that most of the A and F planes also have names… A-10 Warthog and the A-36 Apache (an old plane which I think was post WW-II but maybe caught the tale end of the war?), the F-15 Strike Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, etc. However, I would imagine that the plate above refers to the Beechcraft A36 civilian aircraft… a bit more likely than the A-36 Apache
Not trying to prove I’m smart or anything; I just love military aviation!
September 14, 2010 - 12:42 am
Mr. Nelson, thanks for stopping by and sharing your love/knowledge of military aviation! How could I have possibly overlooked such an endearing nickname as Warthog??? No seriously, you are absolutely correct, I need to expand my limited-to-cargo vocabulary to include all those wonderfully coined fighters, and I appreciate you helping me out. I think you nailed it on the Beechcraft, I hope someday the BMW driver pulls up this post and introduces him/herself.
On another note, if there is anything I can do to help you in your journey to learn more about photography, please don’t hesitate to ask! Here’s some of what I have started already:
http://christinegacharna.com/blog/photo-101-table-of-contents/
Very best regards…
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February 9, 2010 - 10:37 am
love it!
February 13, 2010 - 2:32 pm
Me too.
no school! and the streets I need to get us to a matinee have already been plowed.
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February 3, 2010 - 10:52 am
the perfect tucson sunrise and the perfect virgina snow day all in the same week. not bad.
February 3, 2010 - 11:06 pm
totally worth the trip just to get this cameo appearance from you on my blog! thank you for lunch…
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December 23, 2009 - 4:47 pm
Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2009 - 5:00 pm
That is the greatest holiday card I have ever seen! Nice job.
Looks like the bug on your blog is fixed. The photos aren’t disappearing for me anymore.
December 23, 2009 - 10:30 pm
Merry Christmas doll! Great fam pix!
December 27, 2009 - 1:34 am
LOVE IT!…what a great card, the kids are just growing up so fast, tell them to slow down…the card was just adorable, all the way down to “LEXI”
As a military family, our children rarely spend Christmas in the same place twice. So working with that, we try to make family traditions flexible worldwide. For example, we take them to the Nutcracker each year and recount years passed how many cities across the globe we’ve seen it in during the holidays. We have tickets for today’s Septime Webre’s The Nutcracker starring George Washington as the heroic Nutcracker and England’s King George III as the villainous Rat King. I can’t wait. Our tickets are for the showing at D.C.’s historic Warner Theater.
Only we woke up this morning to all this snow!
So we went sledding instead!
The blizzard continues, D.C. is shut down. We’re inside now, all warmed up and sipping hot chocolate. This might be the year we reschedule the Nutcracker for January, which makes 2010 the historic year that we’ll see it twice!
Carlos is heartbroken, stuck indoors on a day the Saints are playing. :) (thinking of you, Tommy and Katie!)
And I digress here, but sledding down that tiny treeless hill this morning brought back so many fond memories of recklessly sailing down mountains on Les Schwab tire tubes, dodging evergreens, and the completely insane hooky-bobbing of my youth. On days like today, I think of all my Oregon friends and smile. :) Miss you guys!
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December 19, 2009 - 8:05 pm
So glad you’re having fun in the snow! And also glad that we made it out just in time!
December 21, 2009 - 1:27 am
So FUN to follow your family journey What a true joy!
December 21, 2009 - 6:12 pm
Loved the pictures. Love, Mom
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kate gardiner photography - super adorable! love the one of them pushing into each other. great pose!