Rob Wessel, Louie Rozier, Dave Morgan, and Ken Edwards
Lily Parsons, Gene Parsons, Dave Morgan and Rob Wessel
Prairie Sun Studios, Cotati, Ca. / great fun recording session with the grandfather of country-rock music ….Mr. Gene Parsons
Here’s a self portrait of me in me in my charter pilot days. This was a Piper Navajo Chieftain. Flew this plane all over the East Coast of the US and Canada in all kinds of weather. This was a fun airplane but the turbine version Cheyenne was even funner to fly. I started carrying a tri-pod and obviously a camera with me on flights to help kill the time waiting around at airports. I used an Olympus OM-4T set on auto timer with probably a 28mm F1.8 lens. Extremely great classic camera and great classic aircraft. I caught the sun exactly as it was coming up and lucked out when I ran into place in the twelve second interval managing to not block the rising sun just peaking over the horizon.
All Images © 2011 Robert Wessel
it’s all about light, shadow and composition (a little Photoshop does’nt hurt..I tweaked the levels and always unsharp mask on everything)
these were taken with an Olympus Stylus film camera loaded with Dale Labs
stuff which was basically 35mm movie film ,,, very forgiving with a wide dynamic range. I scanned the original slides CMYK at 3200dpi.
The light was terrific because I landed at some God-forsaken airport in the middle of nowhere and it was around 0600 in the morning.
All Images © 2011 Robert Wessel
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