P-51 Warbirds flying over the Planes of Fame air museum. Out on a Saturday morning watching the plane fly over. Show with the A9II and the 100-400 with a 1.4 teleconverter.
75th Anniversary VJ Day Flyover
On 9/2/20 was the 75th Anniversary of the VJ Day Flyover. They flew the WW2 planes over Souther California. Since I was working from home and was able to take calls from my car I went to the Chino Airport to stake out a spot to catch the planes as they flew over. It took a while, but I was able to get a couple of shots, I really hoped they were going to land, but they just flew over on their way back home. I shot the planes with my Sony A9II and the 100-400 lens. F16 at 1/320 ISO 100
More Hummingbirds
Continuing to get up close and personal with those that share my backyard with me. Don’t think I can get much closer without losing most of them. I had to manually focus on a stand-in flower to try and get the birds in focus. This time it worked out well and I was able to use a remote trigger to capture with the camera on a tripod.
Shooting Hummingbirds
Some more Hummingbirds from the backyard. Got up close and personal with them.
Moon, Moon, Moon
I was taking my son out for several nights in a row to try and find the Neowise Comet. Unfortunately he couldn’t find it, but I did manage to take some shots of the moon and had some fun being out with him. The best days to see the comet unfortunately ended up being some hazy days here in Eastvale, that made it really hard to see the comet in the night sky. I did manage to get this shot of the moon that I liked. I had my camera on the tripod using the 100-400 lens to take the shot.
Hummingbirds
I hung a hummingbird feeder in my backyard and have been steadily moving it closer to my door so that I can shoot the little buddies that are flying around. The first shot is when I first hung the feeder and the next ones are as I moved it closer to my door. I like being able to sit behind my camera on a tripod and shoot the birds while working at my desk. Gives me something to do during the day and I am in boring meetings. I’ve found the hummingbirds come in the morning and in the afternoon. They are really fun to watch as they come to eat.
Firesight API Explorer
I am having to make some changes to an object group in the Firesight management platform for my firewalls. Some of these changes required me to add and remove a 50-100 network entries at one time and doing it by hand was going to take a while and could also be prone to errors. I started to research the options for using the api interface for Firesight and came across this YouTube video from Cisco Devnet showing how to use the API Explorer built into firesight and showing how I could easily take and copy out a program so that I could build the object group very easily with a python script. So now I have taken what was started in the API Explorer and modifying it to pull the data out of my central address repository, format the data, and then build the script to run. You can see the in process script here.
WRX Early in the morning
I took my camera out in the early morning and found a place to shoot my car. Thought this was a good shot that I really liked, I used my platypod to get the camera low and do the leading lines up to the car. I has happy with how most of the shot came out and what it looked like.
The Passing of our sweet dog Sydney
On 7/9/20 we lost our beautiful girl Sydney. She went years before her time as she was only 10 at the time. She started to have seizures a week before and we had her on medication, but we believe she had a brain tumor as it’s the only thing that explains her passing within such a short time. She was a sweet girl and we will miss her dearly. We fell lucky to have had her bless our lives for the time that she was in it. She was a stubborn girl who would look at you and ignore all the while doing what she wanted, but we loved her very much and will miss her greatly.
Planes of Fame Vultee BT-13 Flight
Planes of Fame flew their BT-13 on 7/4 and 7/5. I went out both days to practice and grab some shots of it. Since it was so hot I just hid in my car and waited for the plane to take off so that I could get shots of it from the parking lot. I should have used my teleconverter to get a little closer on some of the shots or not used my 3 stop ND filter.
Joseph Jenkins 