Hillsboro Air Show and BBQs
August 10th, 2008
It was sure a busy day today; we were invited to two BBQs and the Hillsboro Airshow was going on today, which we like to sit out on our patio and watch every year. We love how the jets come flying low over the apartment complex we live in and set off all the car alarms in the parking lot. We watched a bit of that before going to our first BBQ, which we were invited to by Julie’s co-worker, Amy, who she met through their charity committee. Amy and her husband, Frank, live just north of the Hillsboro airport on some farmland and are situated nicely to watch the airshow while enjoying company and entertainment. We enjoying the delicious BBQ hamburgers and side dishes, while sipping on beer and pina colada slushies. For more entertainment (besides the airshow), Frank and his buddies built a trebuchet and launched cabbage, tomatoes, oranges, grapefruit, cantalope, and a basketball!! It was quite entertaining to watch while planes were flying overhead.
I, of course, wanted to get some good photos of the planes doing their moves and I had to be quick at the camera movement in order to catch them. I have to say that one of my best photos of the day came with a a price. I was following the planes through the viewfinder of my camera, I clicked the shutter as the sun was in view and it was quite bright and, from what I hear not the best for the camera (or my eyes for that matter). When we got home, I downloaded the photo onto the computer and, using Lightroom 2, adusted some of the color and exposure of the photo. It’s amazing what you can catch in the camera within milliseconds.
After the airshow and trebuchet bbq, we went to another bbq held by Julie’s work. We were way too stuffed to eat anything, but we promised we would go and enjoy the activities. When we arrived, it seemed as though a lot of people bailed out on the event; there was hardly anybody there. We ended chatting with a very few people and then walked down to the Tualitan River, watched to ducks, and of course, took some pictures. It was a great day to be out and about. When we got home, we relaxed the rest of the evening and watched a movie.







