Ron Shoots

Discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Too close, way too close!

Lake Powell is absolutely beautiful and today was a super clear day. I’ve been shooting overall editorial scenics and way cool artistic images where I try to look straight down at Mother Earth’s patterns of nature.

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So we’re minding our business over the lake at about 2,100 ft (low in aviation terms- commercial jets fly at 37,000 ft.) when I catch just a gray blur out of the corner of my eye. I had been shooting out my door on the right side. The pilot had just uttered a few choice expressions- that gray blur was a military jet that just missed us on the right side by 100 feet at 600mph…

2 Comments so far

  1. Sara Woodmansee November 20th, 2006 7:56 am

    oooooh my…..that is downright scary! Glad you are OK!

  2. krista schatz November 20th, 2006 9:06 am

    WOW!

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