Brooks' Photos - Page 52 - Aircraft of World War II

Aaron Brooks Wolters · 10-31-2009, 04:45 PM

Yes Ontos, it is a time and art lost.

Geedee · 10-31-2009, 06:00 PM

That, my friend, is a bl**dy good pic !

Got to say it mate, your pics have improved no-end !. Even without the effects of photo editing software, your skill at photo composition, capture and presentation have without doubt advanced considerably since those first shots.

Consider your back, well and truly 'patted' !!!

Looking forward to some more shots, keep 'em coming !

Aaron Brooks Wolters · 10-31-2009, 10:54 PM

Thank you Gary,

but if it were not for the coaching and critiquing that you guys have given me I would have become frustrated to no end and given up. I owe you all a lot and I still have a lot to learn. Thank you very much.

Shinpachi · 11-01-2009, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by ontos

Aaron and Shinpachi, you struck my curiosity reference "The Love Letter", so I went to the site listed, great story. I remember seeing a movie by the same name. I understand the feeling of maybe you should have lived in a different time. I have all the letters written by my great grandfather to my grandmother when they were courting, during the Civil War. The letters are so poetic, and beautifully written. I will cherish them always. My grandfather was in the Union Army.

I have found out the movie.
Thanks!

Aaron Brooks Wolters · 11-01-2009, 07:19 PM

Ok Eric, I got a friend of mine to come over and sort out the problems I was having with PSE7 and it seems to be working a lot smoother now. I went back and edited a couple of the shots you wanted to see in black and white and aged them a little. I hope you like them cause different people like different things.

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Gnomey · 11-01-2009, 07:34 PM

Nicely done Aaron. They look much better aged than in full colour in my opinion.

Aaron Brooks Wolters · 11-01-2009, 08:33 PM

Thank you Gnomey. I'm slowly learning this Photo Shop thing so any thing you guys can think of that I need to do just let me know.

Lucky13 · 11-02-2009, 03:47 AM

Bl**dy brilliant my good man!
Btw, I've got a mission for you....

Do you have any idea of what's left of the old N&W, where they ran their, what was the name again..... "Virginia Creeper"? Wasn't that their Abingdon branchline, or am I well off the track now?

Aaron Brooks Wolters · 11-02-2009, 08:00 PM

Norfolk & Southern now runs on all of the old Norfolk & Western lines now. The present day Creeper Trail started as a private venture and I'm not sure by whom, I will have to do some checking, but some Norfolk & Western engines did run on it and they may have purchased the line at some point. Again, I will have to do some checking.

Lucky13 · 11-03-2009, 08:28 AM

Remember watching the line on some N&W videos that I have back in Sweden, loved the scenery...

Thanks!

Colin1 · 11-03-2009, 08:42 AM

That building
with all the billboards on it, what was its function and is it still in use?

Aaron Brooks Wolters · 11-03-2009, 09:07 PM

It's just an old barn sitting out in the middle of a field just off Alternate Hwy. 58. If you look closely I believe you can just make out the front of a small tractor.

Lucky13 · 11-04-2009, 11:40 AM

Can't help but thinking of all those barns with treasures inside them, old cars etc., etc....

evangilder · 11-04-2009, 04:46 PM

Very nice! Those shots screamed vintage in color, and you gave them that look.

Aaron Brooks Wolters · 11-04-2009, 08:57 PM

Thank you Eric, I thought that maybe I had gotten the second shot a little to light but you never know how it may have turned out on real film so.

10-31-2009, 04:45 PM	#766
Aaron Brooks Wolters Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA. Posts: 2,300	Yes Ontos, it is a time and art lost. __________________

10-31-2009, 06:00 PM	#767
Geedee Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 765	That, my friend, is a bl**dy good pic ! Got to say it mate, your pics have improved no-end !. Even without the effects of photo editing software, your skill at photo composition, capture and presentation have without doubt advanced considerably since those first shots. Consider your back, well and truly 'patted' !!! Looking forward to some more shots, keep 'em coming ! __________________ Cheers Gary Not only am I a master of suspense, but I... http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/sta...ect-18113.html "I’ll never worry about meeting a FW 190 in a 51 since I was able to outturn, outdive and generally out-maneuver him at all altitudes, from 23,000 feet to the deck; I could follow him in anything and do a lot more besides.” Richard D Bishop, 11 Sept 1944, 55th FG

10-31-2009, 10:54 PM	#768
Aaron Brooks Wolters Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA. Posts: 2,300	Thank you Gary, but if it were not for the coaching and critiquing that you guys have given me I would have become frustrated to no end and given up. I owe you all a lot and I still have a lot to learn. Thank you very much. __________________

11-01-2009, 07:19 PM	#770
Aaron Brooks Wolters Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA. Posts: 2,300	Ok Eric, I got a friend of mine to come over and sort out the problems I was having with PSE7 and it seems to be working a lot smoother now. I went back and edited a couple of the shots you wanted to see in black and white and aged them a little. I hope you like them cause different people like different things. __________________

11-01-2009, 07:34 PM	#771
Gnomey "World Traveller" Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 15,224	Nicely done Aaron. They look much better aged than in full colour in my opinion. __________________ "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr

11-01-2009, 08:33 PM	#772
Aaron Brooks Wolters Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA. Posts: 2,300	Thank you Gnomey. I'm slowly learning this Photo Shop thing so any thing you guys can think of that I need to do just let me know. __________________

11-02-2009, 03:47 AM	#773
Lucky13 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 15,149	Bl**dy brilliant my good man! Btw, I've got a mission for you.... Do you have any idea of what's left of the old N&W, where they ran their, what was the name again..... "Virginia Creeper"? Wasn't that their Abingdon branchline, or am I well off the track now? __________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"

11-02-2009, 08:00 PM	#774
Aaron Brooks Wolters Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA. Posts: 2,300	Norfolk & Southern now runs on all of the old Norfolk & Western lines now. The present day Creeper Trail started as a private venture and I'm not sure by whom, I will have to do some checking, but some Norfolk & Western engines did run on it and they may have purchased the line at some point. Again, I will have to do some checking. __________________

11-03-2009, 08:28 AM	#775
Lucky13 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 15,149	Remember watching the line on some N&W videos that I have back in Sweden, loved the scenery... Thanks! __________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"

11-03-2009, 08:42 AM	#776
Colin1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,766	That building with all the billboards on it, what was its function and is it still in use?

11-03-2009, 09:07 PM	#777
Aaron Brooks Wolters Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA. Posts: 2,300	It's just an old barn sitting out in the middle of a field just off Alternate Hwy. 58. If you look closely I believe you can just make out the front of a small tractor. __________________

11-04-2009, 11:40 AM	#778
Lucky13 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 15,149	Can't help but thinking of all those barns with treasures inside them, old cars etc., etc.... __________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"

11-04-2009, 04:46 PM	#779
evangilder "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA Posts: 14,809	Very nice! Those shots screamed vintage in color, and you gave them that look. __________________ http://www.vg-photo.com For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci

11-04-2009, 08:57 PM	#780
Aaron Brooks Wolters Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA. Posts: 2,300	Thank you Eric, I thought that maybe I had gotten the second shot a little to light but you never know how it may have turned out on real film so. __________________

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