so, there I was at the McCall airport which is a hole in the wall while the resort director was dangling his point and shoot and giddy as a thirty year old man can get away with being.. and I'm sitting there with my L mounted to my XT fumbling with my POTN strap and trying not to bite my nails off... thinking to myself that the pilot almost had to duck to walk underneath the wings of this airplane...and I was about to get in it..
There were four seats. Four!! and a bunch of controls on my side with the wheel... He then unattached the screw from my window that would keep it from opening all the way and told me to just turn the latch when I wanted to open it... Okay, so there's me in a plane smaller than my car about to go up in the air to take photos of my resort.. and thinking, how the hell did I get myself into this..? I said I'd take pictures of the fountains and the hotel rooms and the restaurant.. and I'm strapped into a plane about to open a perfectly good window over a pretty big lake in the middle of the Idaho mountains.... When he took off I was too terrified to even realize we'd left the ground and then Ryan puts his hand on my shoulder and points out the window....
My viewfinder didn't leave my face for an hour aside to change memory cards... the most incredible experience of my life!! Ofcourse it was raining and the lake looked soo incredibly dramatic and I'm thrilled with it.. But, I have a suspision that the important guy behind the desk wants peaceful and pretty not dramatic.. I skipped ahead a few and snagged some shots that were just for me and not the resort.. here's a couple. I have a LOT of work to do.... more to come as soon as conversions are done and I have some time... these are real quick..
. Cursing at your worse-than-a-map reflector? 
I might be taking a chopper ride in the near future, commercial flight so I don't expect we will be able to open the windows. I'll take my 70-300 IS. 
