How many miles will I drive....

Using up more of my accumulated vacation for the rest of this week. And I am going to be doing some driving between different photography outings.

The challenge is to guess how many miles I rack up between now and Saturday evening. Closest guess wins a 8x10 of print of my best shot of the week.

The only hint - I will only be going to one other (besides Arizona) state.

Any takers?

Most Viewed Pictures for September 2010

Most Viewed Pictures for September 2010, originally uploaded by rob-the-org.

Every single picture for September - was from http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KPHX" TARGET="flightaware">PHX Sky Harbor in the last 60 days.

I have done other things in the last month, but the pictures are still on memory cards waiting to be edited and uploaded.

Most Viewed Pictures for August 2010

Most Viewed Pictures for August 2010, originally uploaded by rob-the-org.

Yes - I was at the airport a couple of times taking pictures - as the majority of August mosaic's shows.

Unplanned photos are the best

My major project at work is starting to wrap up - so I have some more free time to get out and take pictures. There were rumors of a unique plane coming through Phoenix on the 2nd, so I took the day off to take pictures at the airport.

The rumored plane didn't show - but I stuck around to see what else went on during a weekday (since normally only get out to the airport on weekends or in the evening).

I was rewarded almost immediately when one of the Air National Guard KC-135's took off - right past my vantage point in the Terminal garage. [click any of the pictures below to see the image at full size].



Then I caught the daily Hawaiian Airlines flight to Honolulu (this is the 2nd largest passenger airplane that regularly operates in and out of Sky Harbor).



But the airplane I was the happiest to see flying - was the Honeywell 757 Engine Test bed. It took off and flew racetrack patterns for a couple of hours before returning to Phoenix.



I had gotten fleeting pictures of this plane before - but never its right hand side - where the extra test engine is mounted. The slideshow includes some of these older pictures - as well as pictures of the Boeing coming back into its parking place (directly off the runway).



Definitely a great way to spend a day taking pictures.

My number is.....

34 1/2. That's the number of vacation days I have to use (or lose) by the end of the year.

I better get busy ;

Just an ordinary Air Canada Airbus A319

Air Canada Airbus A319, originally uploaded by rob-the-org.

This is another one of those ordinary looking airplane pictures - but it obviously got someone's interest. Because in less than 24 hours - it has over 300 unique views from outside of Flickr.

(reminds me of this photo of a Delta Airbus from last Fall - that got over 400 views in a very short period of time)

Most Viewed Pictures for July 2010

Most Viewed Pictures for July 2010, originally uploaded by rob-the-org.

The end is in sight for my work project - so I have started to venture out and take pictures again.

The large central picture - was of a Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757 transport heading back down under - after being in England for the Farnborough International Air Show.