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the Big Picture with MetroAir Photo
I became an aerial photographer in the summer of 1997 when I first went aloft with my Olympus 35mm taking pictures from a Robinson R22 helicopter. That experience led me to organize MetroAir Photo LLC on October 31, 2005.
As MetroAir Photo passes it's second anniversary I have had the privilege to photograph hundreds of sites throughout Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania feeling the winter chill and the summer wind from 10 feet over the Chesapeake Bay to 10,000 feet above a highway intersection.
Throughout all that variety of work I strive to provide the sharpest, clearest, highest resolution photographs that help people understand and appreciate better the land and buildings in which they live and work. Sometimes the photos are for display in a living room others will be published in reports to investors while still others will help prospective buyers to understand the value of the property.
03/03/2009 01:30 PM
March 5, 2009 - Gallery Opening
I am proud to announce that starting March 5th MetroAir Photo has work that will be featured at VisArts at Rockville in their “How You See It” photography show. The photos include my aerial photo, FEMA Folly. My fiancee, Brandy Snedden, will have one of her equestrian photos, Dandelion Kisses, on display.
In conjunction with this event I have created a gallery to allow our customers to view and order selected art prints. Included are some of my unique and general interest aerial photos as well as Brandy Snedden’s equestrian photography.
Click here to view this new gallery of art prints.
I invite you to attend this opening with us to see our work and that of other artists throughout the area. If you cannot make the opening, the exhibition runs through May 10th.
For a flyer on the event, click here.
VisArts Center
155 Gibbs St.
Rockville, MD 20850
Opening Night: March 5, 2009 6:30PM-8:30PM
The exhibition runs through May 10, 2009
01/27/2009 07:57 AM
Singing about the Miracle on the Hudson
Much has been said already about the quick actions of Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III and his crew of Flight 1549 that had to ditch in the Hudson River following engine failure on January 15, 2009. I personally appreciate their quick thinking and reactions. Flying as often as I do with various pilots for photo missions it gives me an appreciation for the skills and quick thinking that come along with being a commercial pilot. We expect so much of our pilots, yet they never receive the credit they deserve for their hard work every day. So it was special treat when I discovered Garrison Keillor had written a song for the crew of Flight 1549: Garrison Keillor’s Flight 1549 Song
Thank you to all those who have piloted me in blue skies and gray!
Steve
11/29/2007 10:45 PM
Echos from our past
Today I was up flying, this time near Urbana, MD between Gaithersburg and Frederick. As my subject property was only a couple of miles away from the Monocacy Battlefield I asked my pilot to take a detour over this hallowed ground.
Not having tried to find this battlefield from the air before I simply knew generally where it was situated and recalled what it looked like from the ground when I visited there a few years back in 2004. I saw a familiar landmark, the bridge over MD-355 (Urbana Rd), the road that runs from Frederick through Gaithersburg, Rockville, and ultimately finds the Potomac River in the middle of Georgetown in Washington, DC. This landmark I had photographed before on one of my first trial photo flights, not realizing it was on the battlefield.
It was around the site of today’s bridge that in the late afternoon on July 9, 1864 that Union soldiers, exhausted from a full days battle facing a Confederate force nearly 3 times their numbers, made their final stand before retreating from the field with over 25% casualties.
These soldiers faced nearly impossible odds to win a spoil greater than land–time. Their actions delayed the advance of Confederate General Jubal Early’s force of 15,000 allowing Union forces to reinforce the fortifications around Washington, DC. Those forces arrived in time to defend and repel Early’s raid. The war would last 10 more months.
To learn more about Monocacy National Battlefield click here.
And that’s just one example of land that tells the story of who we are. A snapshot in time that in our busy lives we zoom by.
Steve
