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Windseeker soars to meet Jet Airplane

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I came across this photo taken back in February 2012 when I joined the younger and more adventuresome members of my family for a day at Knott’s Berry Farm to celebrate a birthday. As everyone knows, or should know, I don’t do thrill rides.

While I waited for the family daredevils on the ground, I snapped this picture of them spinning around on the Windseeker ride 300 feet in the air as a jet passed overhead.

The photo was published later that week by the Los Angeles Times as their selection for “photo of the day”, making it my first official (and probably last) published “art photography”…

It was a ton of fun to hang with everyone that day, and still like the photo, and trying to identify which danging feet belongs to which family member…

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Jay Leno’s 1966 Olds Toronado

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Here’s a couple of photos of Jay Leno’s 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado I took while visiting his studios that some of you might enjoy…

Originally a front-wheel drive powered by a 7-liter generating 385 HP, Jay stepped up the game by transforming his into a 1,070 horsepower real-wheel drive rocket ship, sitting on a modified C5 Corvette chassis.

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Under the hood of Jay’s ’66 Toronado

 

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The Beauty of the Desert.

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When I first moved to Scottsdale in 1997, all I saw was brown dirt. The longer I lived in the desert, the more the stunning beauty of it emerged.

This photo was taken in La Quinta, California earlier today looking west towards Santa Rosa mountain way off in the distant. In the foreground on the left is Eisenhower mountain, with the edge of Indio mountain on the right. The land I’m standing on is owned by Larry Ellison, so I better keep on hiking!