Another found photo + Vija Celmins

I found this photo at the flea market last weekend too. The back says "B-52 and escorts" - it reminded me of paintings like this:

Vija Celmins, "Suspended Plane", Oil on Canvas, 1966 via SFMOMA

New Aerial Photo

I took this photo at Centennial Airport on Friday.

Found Photo of the Day

from the collection of Nathan Abels

Planes in Trees

"highly skilled air traffic controller"

"highly skilled air traffic controller"

New Aerial Photos

I got a few good snaps yesterday morning:

Symphony in Gray

Symphony in Gray (2nd Movement)

Take-Off

This is a short time-lapse of a take-off yesterday from Centennial airport in Denver, CO (by Nathan Abels)

JH Engström

Photos by JH Engström. His statement on the series read;

"Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport has allways been a special place to me.
At the age of ten I moved to Paris with my parents. The move created a very intense relationship to the city of Paris but also to the Charles de Gaulle airport and airports in general. .
The airport was the first contact with the world outside my native region in Sweden.

For this photogrphic project I spent three weeks in this particular zone, isolating my self in an airpirt hotel, and spending the days in and between the terminals.

With fiction, poetry and mystery I observed the airport. Raising questions on its social, urban and architectural dimensions.

The airport becomes a new place to observe identities and the history of relations.

It was extraordinairy to be given the permision to photograph in such a restricted high security area

JH Engström April 2006"

New Aerial Photos

The first 6 photos of this set were taken yesterday on a flight out to Wray, CO.

New Aerial Photos

The first 20 photos of the slideshow below are new aerial photos I took on the way to and from Montrose, CO yesterday:



photos by Nathan Abels

War Planes: Daniel Miller and Vija Celmins

I think any artist would be honored to be compared to Vija Celmins (I know I would)...well, I was browsing Etsy today looking at some local artists and came upon Daniel Miller's Etsy page and subsequently his personal art site. I loved his drawings of war planes:



I personally enjoy the older planes more than the more modern planes. Maybe because of my long-time interst in World War II history, or maybe because they have a different aura. They reminded me of this (now) classic American painting recently purchased by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art :


Vija Celmins, American, born Latvia (Riga, Latvia, 1939 - ), "1Suspended Plane", 1966, Oil on Canvas, 23 3/4 in. x 34 3/4 in.

New Nebraska/Colorado Aerial Photos

Here's a few choice aerial photos I took this morning. North-Eastern Colorado/South-Western Nebraska area. All photos by Nathan Abels - copyright Nathan Abels 2007. More found here.

Great New Aerial Photographs from This Weekend

This is just a sampling of the many photos I took yesterday. I went to Farmington, NM twice (morning and afternoon), and around Denver in between. Click on any photo to link to my flickr site set of aerial photography.

Storage facility in Denver

Snow in the Mountains

The wing of our plane looking at Pike's Peak - 14,100 ft elevation - so high that we flew beside/below it

A close up/aerial shot of Great Sand Dunes National Park

Farming fields in San Luis Valley, Co just before the Great Sand Dunes

Found Friday on a Monday

I had a busy weekend - so my 'Found Friday' feature will take place on a Monday. Here it is:

On the back it says
"Sun. Mar. 30, 1941; Lansing Airport"