Happy Sunday. Short post for you today….. This is the U.S. Air Force Cadet Chapel (Colorado Springs CO), just from a unique perspective/weird angle. I love the architecture of this place.
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Cadet Chapel
I love the design of this chapel. My three hours at this site wasn’t long enough…but it was getting cold and dark, plus visiting hours at the U.S. Air Force Academy were coming to an end…. So, I called for my Uber went back to my hotel. That was about a year ago. I’ll have to plan another trip in the future.
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Cadet Chapel Spires
Hello Tuesday!! How was your day? My day was pretty good…
About this photo: I took this shot last December while I was in Colorado Springs for a class. I slipped away from the group and took an Uber out to the U.S. Air Force Academy to visit the Cadet Chapel. I took all kinds of photos of the inside and outside using the traditional perspectives. But I also took some unique perspectives like this one. I was trying to capture this beautiful structure in a way that most wouldn’t have considered.
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Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel
I took this photo in early December while I was in Colorado Springs. I used an Uber to travel out to the Air Force Academy right before sunset to photograph this spot. When I arrived, it was in the low 50s and I was comfortable. When I left a few hours later, it was in the mid 30s and I wasn’t prepared. I was freezing when the sun set and with the wind coming down the mountains onto this spot. Regardless, I dealt with it. I could have dealt with it better had I taken a coat (my fault for not planning ahead)…. But I didn’t. Anyway, after I captured all the photos I wanted, I requested another Uber. At that point, I started to get worried the Uber driver wouldn’t be able to come give me since the based closes to visits at 6pm (and I was really cold). If the Uber driver got stopped at the gate, it would have been a 4 mile walk from my spot (the Chapel) to the gate to catch the ride. As it turned out, the Uber driver got through and everything was fine.
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Cadel Chapel
I was in Colorado Springs recently and made a point to visit the U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. It was completed in 1962 based on a design by Walter Netsch. It has become a classic example of modernist architecture, even though the design was controversial at the time. This photo doesn’t include the best features of the chapel, which are the 17 spires. I’ll share a photo of the exterior in the future so you can see the spires. Another interesting feature of this chapel is that it houses five distinct worship (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish Islamic & Buddhist) areas within it. All I can say about it is “wow”!! It’s a great facility.
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Something Totally Different
Tonight I have something different from what I normally post. I took this picture last summer while on a visit to Georgia. This is from within the Aviation Museum at Warner Robins Air Force Base. Honestly I don’t know what type of plane this is and won’t look it up. The last time I looked up an airplane name from the museum’s website, I had people telling me that I was wrong. So I’ll just leave it at this….. It is a very cool looking plane.
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A-10 Thunderbolt
This is a 7 exposure auto-bracketed set merged together
using Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6. I took this photo during the summer on my visit to Georgia. My son and I went down there to visit a
great friend of mine, who I met over twenty years ago while I was in the
military.
During my time in the military, I spent lots of quality time around A-10s in the Middle East. This specific A-10 is sitting outside the Warner Robins U.S. Air Force Aviation Museum.
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1942 Chevrolet Class 125 Airfield Crash Truck
This was built for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to be used at Robins Field (now Robins Air Force Base) to fight aircraft crash fires and to help rescue victims. While I was visiting my friend Tony and his family in Georgia, we went to Robins Air Force Base Aircraft Museum. Tony is a firefighter (and I used to do the same job in my former life) at the base, so we were drawn to this antique fire truck. I am posting this picture tonight for Tony. Hope he likes it.
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