February 23, 2012

  • Thursday 23rd Febuary 2012

    Thursday morning: Clear calm and sunny, mild 16C. We didn't go to Valencia yesterday with Beccie as Antony took her, but it was the shortest time ever and they were home even before it got dark. The result of the scan was that the tumor has reduced by 70% so that was great news for everyone!

    Today it's so nice I wanted to take the opportunity to get the flying pictures of the Hughes 500 MD. Because Chrissie is still unable to walk very much, she wasn't able to come out and take the pictures as previously planned, so I devised a way that I could take them myself.

    I placed the tripod with the camera pointing in the direction I wanted the picture, then set it on automatic, this gave me 10 seconds to take the helicopter off and hover it in front of the camera..... easier said than done, I got a lot of tail and nose shots at first but then I got better at hover in the rght place and the 5th picture was fabulous!

    The Hughes 500 MD looks very realistic flying against the backdrop the Bernia mountain.....



    One of the other pictures cropped to centre the helicopter.....