This past weekend was the Planes of Fame Hanger Talk that showed the P-51D Mustang Dolly/Spam Can taking to the air. This plane is part of the Museum’s collection and has been since 1957 when it was acquired by Ed Maloney at auction. This is the longest owned privately held P-51. This is the D variant, that has the Packard engine and bubble canopy.
Two Ducks
I was at Bolsa Chica Reserve over the weekend and came across two ducks eating. I like this image for the symbolism and have used it as my background now for my Zoom meetings. I also use it to explain when things aren’t going the way they should and other teams arne’t planning correctly. I shot this with my A1 and the 200-600 lens. A little bit of post processing in Lightroom.
B-52 Stratofortress
B-52 Stratofortress flying at the 2022 Pacific Airshow. Affectionally known as the BUFF(BIG UGLY FAT FELLOW). These planes have been flying since the 50’s and were a big part of our nuclear deterrent back in the days. There was a time that we would have several planes up 24 hours a day ready to drop bombs on Russia if the need arose. This planes only makes 3 passes during the airshow, because the turn radius is so long.
Falcon in backyard
Found this little guy in my backyard checking out my dog. 🙂 Just kidding, it was looking for something else to get a hold of and eat. Shot it with the A1 and the 200-600, shutter speed was a little fast for something that wasn’t moving. I should have slowed it down to lower the ISO and reduce the noise.
2022 Props and Hops
For the second year in a row we went to props and hops at the Palm Springs Air Museum. It was a good time with several breweries there. It also doesn’t hurt that there are WWII planes along with some newer jets and stuff out on tarmac. The Palm Springs Air Museum is right next to the runway at the Palm Springs Airport. One of the highlights was seeing the F-117 Nighthawk, after it had been repainted after being demilitarized. I saw it when it first was brought into the museum and it was great to see it now refurbished.
Before:
This is from the F-117 was first brought to the air museum, back in 2020. This was a nighttime event with a Steve Justice from from Lockheed Martin.
F-117 during Props and Hops in 2022. Almost looks like she could fly.
2022 Camarillo Airshow
Life is almost back to normal and at least we had an almost full year of Airshows. Went to both of days of the Camarillo airshow and had a great time capturing photos up there. Not as many jets this year, but the WWII planes from Planes of Fame and the Palm Spring Air Museum make this show a treat to visit and experience. The weather was nice, could always ask for a few more clouds, but I will take what I can get and enjoy the time out.
Books read during 2021
Tracking the books I read in 2021:
Managed to finish a good number of books this year.
The Ember War – Richard Fox
The Ruins of Anthalas – Richard Fox
Eternal Core – Gage Lee
Ready Player 2 – Ernest Cline
Hell Divers 7 – Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Knife Edge – Empire Corps Book 17 – Christopher G Nuttall
Holy Ground – Evan Currie
Light the Way – Richard Fox
USS Hamilton – Ironhold Station – Mark Wayne McGinnis
Blood of Heroes – Richard Fox
Earth Defiant – Richard Fox
The Gardens of Nibiru – Richard Fox
The Battle of the Void – Richard Fox
The Halls of Montezuma – Empire Corps Book 18 – Christopher G Nuttall
Starship Mage(Starship’s Mage Book 1) – Glynn Stewart
Hand of Mars(Starship’s Mage Book 2) – Glynn Stewart
Voice of Mars(Starship’s Mage Book 3) – Glynn Stewart
Alien Arcana(Starship’s Mage Book 4) – Glynn Stewart
Judgement of Mars(Starship’s Mage Book 5) – Glynn Stewart
Unarcana Stars(Starship’s Mage Book 6) – Glynn Stewart
Sword of Mars(Starship’s Mage Book 7) – Glynn Stewart
Mountain of Mars(Starship’s Mage Book 8) – Glynn Stewart
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
The service of Mars(Starship’s Mage Book 9) – Glynn Stewart
A Darker Magic(Starship’s Mage Book 10) – Glynn Stewart
Interstellar Mage(Starship’s Mage: Red Falcon Book 1) – Glynn Stewart
Mage-Provocateur(Starship’s Mage: Red Falcon Book 2) – Glynn Stewart
Agengs of Mars(Starship’s Mage: Red Falcon Book 3) – Glynn Stewart
Armageddon (Expeditionary Force Book 8) – Craig Alanson
Valkyrie (Expeditionary Force Book 9) – Craig Alanson
Critical Mass (Expeditionary Force Book 10) – Craig Alanson
Brushfire (Expeditionary Force Book 11) – Craig Allison
Breakaway (Expeditionary Force Book 12) – Craig Allison
The Martian – Andy Weir
Starlight Enclave – R.A. Salvatore
E-Day – Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Mage Commander (Starship’s Mage Book 11) – Glynn Stewart
The Halls of Montezuma(The Empire Corps Book) – Christopher G Nuttall
Starlight Enclave(Book 1 of the Way of the Drow) – R. A. Salvatore
Fighting for the Crown(Ark Royal Book 16) – Christopher G. Nuttall
Omega Force: To Hell and Back (Omega Force 13) – Joshua Dalzelle
Avenging Home – A. American
Home Invasion – A. American
Conflicted Home – A. American
Enforcing Home – A. American
Resurrecting Home – A. American
Forsaking Home – A. American
Hell Divers 8(Kingdom of the Wastes) – Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Destroyer (The Void Wraith Saga Book 1) – Chris Fox
Void Wraith (The Void Wraith Saga Book 2) – Chris Fox
Eradication (The Void Wraith Saga Book 3) – Chris Fox
Behind the Lines (The Void Wraith Saga Book 4) – Chris Fox
Hold The Line (The Void Wraith Saga Book 5) – Chris Fox
Press The Line (The Void Wraith Saga Book 6) – Chris Fox
E-Day II: Burning Earth – Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Band of Brothers – Stephen E. Ambrose
Home Coming – A. American
Planes of Fame A6M5 Zero
Planes of Fame flew their Zero a few weeks ago, unfortunately the day was overcast and foggy and the aerial images weren’t the best. I took a few of it on the ground and did the best I could with those in the air. This is a famous zero that has been in movies and has the honor of being the last original one. The day was very hazy, but I was out there with my A9ii and 200-600 with 1.4x tele extender. I ended up using quite a bit of dehaze in Lightroom to get the shots to look anywhere near decent. Beautiful plane would have loved for the day to have been better.
2021 Props and Hops Beer Festival
This past weekend I attended the Props and Hops festival down at the Palm Springs Air Museum. What more could you ask for beer and warbirds. I didn’t take my full camera kit as we were only in one part of the museum. However I did mess around with some shots during the festival with my iPhone. Being up close with an F-14 Tomcat was kind of nice. Also the beer was really good to, need to make some more trips down to desert as there are some nice places.
OperationalError: (‘08001’, ‘[08001] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server]Client unable to establish connection (0) (SQLDriverConnect)’) with pyodbc on Mac OS x
I was getting the following weird error when running pyodbc on my Mac and trying to connect to my Windows Database:
OperationalError: ('08001', '[08001] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server]Client unable to establish connection (0) (SQLDriverConnect)')
Using the wonderful powers of Google I came across this article:
https://github.com/microsoft/homebrew-mssql-release/issues/59#issuecomment-928957200
Following the information from JH88:
brew install openssl@1.1
# you might need to delete the old symlink first
# rm /usr/local/opt/openssl
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1l /usr/local/opt/openssl
I still wasn’t getting it to work, turns out Brew had installed version 1.1.1l_1 on my machine so I needed to do the following:
rm /usr/local/opt/openssl
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1l_1 /usr/local/opt/openssl
After that quick fix everything started working correctly again.
Joseph Jenkins 