Lunar eclipse, from Santa Clara, California
May 26, 2021
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Pescadero State Beach, California
November 20, 2020
Camera: Rolleiflex 3.5A (K4A),
with vintage Rollei gelb-mittel (medium yellow) filter
Film: Ilford XP2
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A black bear, with ear tag "97," photographed near the Valley Loop Trail in Yosemite National Park.
We kept quiet and maintained a respectful distance from this bear. In return, we were rewarded by a good, long look at a black bear behaving naturally.
In recent years, better management of humans and their activities in the valley have resulted in the valley's black bears returning to the most natural diet they've had in about 100 years. For more, see:
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/yosemites-black...
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On April 12, 1973, a U.S. Navy P-3C patrol aircraft and a Convair 990 operated by NASA collided while on final approach to Naval Air Station Moffett Field. Sixteen of the seventeen people aboard the two aircraft were killed.
The link below will open an article I wrote about this accident:
ianabbott.com/images/Collision_on_Final_Approach.pdf
(U.S. Navy Photo)
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Several Piasecki H-21 "Workhorse" or "Shawnee" helicopters. The nearest helicopter appears to be former USAF CH-21B 53-4328.
Photographed in a private storage yard adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB, May 1998.
(Scanned 35mm color negative)
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