{"id":46219,"date":"2017-08-16T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=46219"},"modified":"2024-06-24T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:08:44","slug":"a-most-unlikely-place-for-saxophone-signage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2017\/a-most-unlikely-place-for-saxophone-signage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Most Unlikely Place For Saxophone Signage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where is the most unlikely place for saxophone signage you can think of?<\/h3>\n

\"Abbotsford<\/a>Last weekend I did something I haven’t done in a number of years: I went to the Abbotsford International Airshow. It was the 55th year that Canada’s National Airshow was held, and for me it was a bit like coming home.<\/p>\n

You see, when I was a small child my parents and I first attended the airshow way back in the 1970s. My dad had been a pilot in the German Luftwaffe, but when he came to Canada in that late 1950s, he was not allowed to hold even a private pilot’s license. That didn’t stop his love of aircraft however, so when we moved to BC, he became a regular attendee of the Abbotsford Airshow.<\/p>\n

My dad was also a very good amateur photographer. I have thousands of photos and negatives of his that act as a chronology of his life all the way from young boy in Germany, through to old man in Canada. As a matter of fact, he continued taking photos with his beloved Leica M3 until a month before his death.<\/p>\n

I inherited a lot from my dad: the love of planes, as well as the love of photography\u2014just to name a couple. So every year the Abbotsford Airshow is a bittersweet time for me. It is truly the time of the year that I remember and miss my dad the most.<\/p>\n

This year I decided to do something I have never done before: I bought a 3 day pass to the photo pit. The photo pit is where the truly geeky photo types hang out\u2014complete with massively long lenses, and multiple cameras.<\/p>\n

Now admittedly, I too brought a couple of cameras to the photo pit, but I wasn’t all that interested in shooting planes flying in the air. Since I love the artsy stuff that goes into HDR photography, I had one camera set up for the sole purpose of taking photos of the planes on static display.<\/p>\n

Now in case you’re wondering why I’m writing all this in my Bassic Sax Blog, stick with me for just a couple more paragraphs. I promise this will all make sense.<\/p>\n

I spent a huge part of the 3 days at the airshow wandering around the static areas taking artsy shots of plane parts: everything from rotors, to nose art, to mid-air refuelling nozzles. I spent so much time crawling and laying underneath some of the planes on static display, that I thought surely some of the pilots or crew would accuse me of stalking<\/em> their plane. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Given the amount of photos I took, I figure it will take me until next year’s airshow to get all of 2017’s pics finished. BTW, if you are interested in seeing those, the best will eventually be uploaded to my Flickr account\u2014the link to which is also on the side of each page of this website. It is the bottom of the 4 blue circles.<\/p>\n

The last place I every thought I would see saxophone signage<\/h3>\n

During my 3-day photo shooting bonanza, I happened to notice something I just had to shoot for this website. It is the insignia on the fuselage of a National Guard F-15 Eagle based out of Portland, OR.<\/p>\n

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I did a bit of sleuthing into the City of Gresham, OR this morning. Other than an outdoor summer concert series, I didn’t find anything noteworthy that they promote on the city website that would scream: SAXOPHONE! I didn’t notice that they even had a jazz festival.<\/p>\n

If anyone from the City of Gresham or surrounding area ever happens to read this and wants to let us know what kind of arts and cultural events are happening in the city that might involve a saxophone, please leave a comment. Until then, I will simply write this off as yet another way that the saxophone’s iconic shape lends itself to conveying a cool, hipness… even when one doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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