Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum
Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum
Last night I was contacted through my website by a lady who wanted to buy the rights for a photo to use to make for a jigsaw as a gift for her Mothers=, who loves doing Jigsaws, 100th birthday celebration that is coming up, it was a photo I took back in 2012 which got me looking through my photos and led to this post as I was looking through my photos from back then.
Now two things I should mention, I refused to sell the photo, I offered it as a gift for such a momentous occasion as someones 100th Birthday.
And secondly, this is not the photo I am sending her, I have asked if she could share a photo of the Jigsaw when done so will make a post if she does send it to me
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Now you may wonder why I decided to share this shot and the others in this post now, and again there are two reasons,
The Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum is pretty cool to see so I wanted to share these shots, and it also reminded me its been a few years well 7 since I went there and I must do a visit to it again this year.
And secondly, because looking at these shots reminded me of a comment I made to someone recently if you get into a rut with your photography, do not compare yourself with others, but look back and what you did a year or a few years back and you will probably see your style and photography has changed a lot and it may well re-motivate you.
Now back when I took these shots I was probably very happy with them, but Now I am not so impressed and feel I could do a lot better now.
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is an American military and maritime history museum with a collection of museum ships in New York City. It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan.
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I knew Aircraft carriers were big but when I viewed it from this angle I got a real feel for how huge it is.
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Don't ask me what type of planes these are, I probably did find out when I visited the museum, but I ma terrible with name sof people let alone names of aircraft
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And another of the aircraft on the Intrepid
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Howdy JJ! wow these are all awesome shots and isn't that interesting about the lady who wants to make a puzzle out of on of yours, that's pretty cool!
Thanks and I was quite touched byt he jigsaw I look forward to when she send me a photo of it
Howdy today JJ! yes, you'll be famous, at least in one household! lol.
LOL I am infamous in a few already LOL
in a few households? lol.. that's too funny there JJ!
Wow, these are huge carriers. I cannot imagine the number of planes they carry on these ships. Pretty impressive. I have to say, that is so kind of you to share your photo for the jigsaw puzzle gift. (And you say you're such a tough guy....lol) Your photos are so fun to see, keep on sharing them @tattoodjay! :)
Thanks hey even a tough guy have a rare nice moment lOL
Ohh yeah the size of them is incredible, I remember years ago a carrier visited New Zealand and they had twice of all the NZ military forces on the one ship
In my untrained eyes those are still beautiful photos @tattoodjay! What an honour to get such a request, a lovely gesture on your part:)
Thanks and I just could not feel good in myself if I had charged for the file, and I hope her mother loves it its a photo in a park her mother used to go to ;)
Never seen a space museum before, didn't even know that it exists! Great job :D
It is such a cool museum huge and so much to see on it
Very nice! I somehow lost all of my photos that I took from The Intrepid. I guess they might be on a drive somewhere at home, but they definitely aren't with my other NY pictures... That is awesome that they want to make a puzzle from one of your pictures! My dad had someone want to make a clock from one of his once.
I have all my photos on backup drives back to 2007 I think, but cant find my photos before then, I must go through my boxes in the attic I am sure some of them are in a box somewhere.
I have to admit the thought of one of my photos being on this gift is a nice feeling :)
My trips to New York were quite frankly a lifetime ago. I still remember them fondly, but they were before I met my wife and don't hold quite as much value to me as they did back then. I am guessing that is why the pictures got lost to the shuffle.
Could well be When I was doing most of my travelling was when I didnt have a camera, I wish I saw so many interesting things both good and bad in those days, but such is life
Nice shots! The 'moody' sky behind the planes just made the pictures that much better. Gave it a dramatic feel.
:D
thats true i got lucky in visiting there on a day where the clouds and sky adding to the effect :)
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Those planes are both A-4 Skyhawks, a single seat, subsonic carrier-capable attack aircraft. They are no longer used by the US Navy or Marines, but are still in use by the Argentine Air Force.
I just revisited the Intrepid last year, while I was in Hell's Kitchen. ;)
These are great shots. No matter what you think, although I know exactly what you mean!
!tip
Firstly thanks for the tip which you shouldnt have, my tipu resources are running low at the moment, so I may have to be more scrimpy with them
thanks also for the info on the planes I should have known you would know :)
Oh, tell me about it! A couple weeks back when we weren't getting any real money, I almost ran out on Market Friday! My voting power was so low that I was pretty desperate, but it all worked out.
But, I will say when I have to be skimpy I am. I don't even have to make excuses for it, because you just not going to get blood from a stone. So I like hold back those tips because you will need them for Wednesday walk. And if you don't have any don't even mention it. You and I have gotten to the point where we expect to give tips and forget that a tip is an extra bonus!
Of course I should know those planes! LOL
LOL Yeah thats true we have got like that I have enough for this wednesday walk but after that who knows lOL
Sounds like a plan. Seems like i am getting wayyyy less today and yesterday.
Probably has something to do with the Bots battling each other.
Yeah but if it rises above $1 we may start getting them again, fingers crossed
Oh, there you got me dreaming again!
Thats good dreams are free ;)