Photography in Flying in Crosswinds

Kit posted a question about a photo in “Here There Be Dragons.”   We also get a lot of verbal comments from friends about photography.  Ranging from offers to do coffee table books to disdainful questions about which version of Photoshop we use.
  
  
All photography in Crosswinds is digital, with minimal post-production.  We don’t even own Photoshop.
I was a film guy.  Post-production, other than cropping, feels [...]

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Mount Pinatubo, Zambales

Every year at Christmas, Carlo and Tonet fly an aerial odyssey.  From December 23 to January 4  they did 1,600 nautical miles in 9 days, logging over 20 flight hours.  Not bad for a Cessna 152. 
They took hundreds of pictures.  Thumbnails are click-able.  Photos are copyrighted.
On December 27 Carlo and Tonet sat in the airplane, ready for engine start, flight planned for Baguio, in the [...]

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Flying Into a Volcano

I once had a dreadful, almost revolting, bias against volcanos.  Leprous open sores in the earth, disgorging the planet’s revolting wastes, the disgusting stink of rotten eggs completing the horrid scene….
Is your skin crawling yet?  Well, imagine flying over a volcano crater. 
It’s like getting out of bed at midnight to stand in front of an open window, trying not to [...]

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