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Miscellaneous Photos

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I 've been playing with a few different cameras this morning and, for the most part, I'm left feeling disappointed by the quality of the photos.  Well...  really...  I'm left disappointed with the quality of the cameras I used for a number of very good and valid reasons.    To be fair, these cameras I've been playing with this morning are ones with the smallest sensors (four-thirds inch sensors) of all but one of my cameras.  And, with the amount of experience I have in photography, I would rate this four-thirds format as the poorest quality I have ever had the displeasure to use.  Being disappointed by my photos from these cameras isn't much of a surprise.   Ironically, the one camera I have and still use regularly with a smaller sensor (a 2/3 inch sensor) is far better than these four-third cameras (some with four-thirds lens mount and newer ones with micro four-thirds lens mount).  Even though it is no surprise that I'm consisten...

Our Longer Visit to the Air Force Museum

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O ur first visit to the Air Force Museum with Lukey and Kenzie was a rather short visit to see the Memorial Park ( see this blog entry here ) and the Wall of Honor ( see this blog entry here ) which are both outdoors.  On this second visit we planned to spend the entire day inside the museum.  The forecast was calling for heavy thunderstorms in the afternoon so we chose this day for this museum knowing we could easily spend the entire day inside where it was dry and safe from lightning.   This museum is huge spanning through four immense hangars so there is a lot to see here.  Actually, one could easily spend a few days at this museum not mere hours.  I've been here countless times before so I knew the spots to visit with the kids.   We did pick up our pace significantly in some areas that I knew would not interest the kids so we could get through the museum in a single day.   Although it made our schedule even tighter on this day, we c...