Leigh’s Photos

The Valley Flyers is putting on a 3 day electronic fun-fly at the Sepulveda Basin in Van Nuys June 6th-8th.  This will be a spectacular event that will show off the alternative to gas/glow powered remote control planes.  This will also be great photo opportunities as this event is going to be huge in the coming years and this is the 1st of its king on the west coast.

For more information and field location, please visit: http://www.westernefly.com or http://www.valleyflyers.com/

This past weekend, May 3rd and 4th, the CI Condors held their 20th Annual Gathering of the Giants.  The weather was nice both days.  A little windy in the afternoon but great.  There we at total of 38 pilots and 52 planes over the two day period.  We had a lot of spectators come see what we are all about which was great.  We even made the Sunday, May 4th, Ventura County Star newspaper.  I have posted all the photos on the CI Condors Google Picasa photo archive.  If you would like a particular picture in Hi-res format, please let me know.  Here is the link to the pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/cicondors

Here is a link to the Hi-res photos that I have processed (note: I will not process all the pictures): http://www.flickr.com/photos/acejr371/sets/72157604869339238/

I would like to that Frank and Bill for allowing me to take pictures for the club event.  I had a great time and hope to be flying at the next event which is June 14th for the Warbird Fly-in.

This coming weekend (May 3rd & 4th) the Channel Islands Condors will be hosting the 20th Annual Gathering of the Giants. The CI Condors is a remote control club that I belong too (Yes, I fly remote control planes as well). The remote control planes will need to have a wing span of 80 inches or larger. Usually these planes that will be flying or static displays are very detailed and very expensive. Most of these planes fly pretty fast about 60 to 100 mph.

To see one of these planes, please visit CI Condors website.

If you would like to come watch all is welcome. The flying will start around 9 AM until dusk.

The CI Condors field location is at CSUCI.

Any questions, let me know. I will be there all weekend taking pictures of the event.

The last weekend of March was my 37th birthday. I was invited to Las Vegas by my good buddy Paul who lives in Henderson. He wanted me to come out to take some pictures with him.

On the first day, we went to the Las Vegas Strip to get some pictures of the Bellagio water show. After the water show was over, we decided to go to the Valley of Fire just Northeast of Las Vegas about an hours drive. Along the way there is this truckers stop were they sell fireworks and just not the small ones. They have a dedicated site adjacent to the place to set off the fireworks.

When driving into the Valley of Fire at the west entrance, you will notice a some rocks that are really red in the hills. But after driving into the valley, you will see why they call it the Valley of Fire. We spent the afternoon at the Valley of Fire until sunset. I took a lot of great pictures, but not many worth posting.

On Sunday, we went to Lake Las Vegas to take a couple of pictures of the waterfalls. After that we went back to the Las Vegas Strip for a few hours before I came home. To see the pictures I took go to http://tinyurl.com/4dwu5.

Thank you Paul for a great time in Las Vegas. For Paul’s pictures go to http://tinyurl.com/3thl9h.

Just this past week, I was up in Carpinteria off The Bluffs and came across The Sea Rookery. The Harbor Seals that are there were having pups (babies). I just missed a birth of a seal by an hour. When I talked to one of the volunteer’s, they said this will be happening for the next few weeks.

If you go, you will need to take a long lens as you are up about 50 ft and there is no way to get down at their level and they are protected at ground level to about 750 ft.

Directions: The easiest thing to do is take the 101 to the Bailard Avenue exit. Turn towards the ocean and go into the Bluffs parking lot. From here you can follow the footpath that leads to down to the bluff, over the railroad tracks then along the bluff top to the seal rookery overlook. It is about a half a mile walk.