Geek toys of all sorts...

I've been spending the weekend at the Reno Air Races. All kinds of geek toys, but in a different space than most computer folks experience. This is a crowd of people that hot-rod airplanes. The most popular category being WWII fighter planes like the P-51 Mustang and the Bearcat. There are also folks having fun of another sort. This series of photographs is of a Chinook helecopter dropping a car into the desert. It's really a display of my newest toy: I bought my first Canon lens with image stabilization (the 100-400 zoom) and does it ever work. I shot these pictures with it at 400mm using my 10D, holding it by hand, swinging the lens to follow the chopper and the falling car. Totally stable. Cool....

September 18, 2004