PHOTO-A-DAY CHALLENGE
Summer Rains and Adventure Sports
Week 47 of the photographic documentary of my daily life
I’m adjusting my life back to normalcy. At least to that what normalcy means to me. Translated for you — I’m a full-time freelancer now. Half-time as a writer and half-time as a skydiver. I resigned from my office job last week to have more time for what I like doing.
Writing.
And jumping out of planes.
My week will be split in half. Four days of the week I will have for writing as much as I want to. The other three days of the week I will be jumping out of planes. For a living. Those are going to be my weekends. Those days I won’t be online. Catching up on all your kind replies and lovely comments on Monday again.
So here’s the first of many interesting weeks to come.
Starting off with a rainy day. This is how my current home base looks like in rainy weather. Less colorful and vibrant. But still a tranquil place.
This is for sure one of the coolest paint jobs I’ve ever seen on a plane. The Skyvan, or this specific one often just referred to as “the Pink” is a badass plane. And the biggest one I’ve ever jumped from. So far.
It’s a photograph calling for suspicions. No, this skydiver did not jump from the hot air balloon. But this balloon was floating in our direction. Unable to adjust the direction of flight two balloons were coming straight towards the airfield. The picture makes it look very close but there was more than enough safety distance between the jumpers and this hot air balloon.
The airport we were operating from this weekend used to be a former international airport but commercial flights stopped in 2014 when the place wasn’t financially viable anymore.
So here we go, I’m waking up this morning right on the tarmac. Sleeping next to the plane on the airfield is a first for me. The former hall with the luggage belt is today the packing area, where parachutes get packed back into their bags.
Back home again after a turbulent weekend in the air, I was dropping off my husband for his language classes when I decided to quickly walk to the castle above the lovely city of Miltenberg. This view is worth climbing all those stairs in the early morning hours.
These days back home I barely made it further than my neighbor’s garden between two rain showers. So this is what I got. A rosebud of a beautifully blooming rose bush on the other side of the street.
All these rain showers and heavy downpours brought my focus onto something new. Raindrops. I find them fascinating. How a drop of water can just stay in one place. Not move. Just hang there. That’s all.
While the wind is blowing these poppy flowers in red, purple, rose and gently moving back and forth.
This has been my week in photographs. 7 days. 7 photographs. Anyone can join. Once. Or weekly. It doesn’t matter. We welcome everyone! Dennett was the one starting this photography challenge sometime last year and many have participated ever since.
Erika Burkhalter / Eileen Vorbach Collins / Sasha Meyer / Tracy Aston/ Lisa Bolin / Juan O. Aguilera / David Wade Chambers / Mia Verita / Susan Alison / LensAfield / Barbara Radisavljevic / Diana Lotti / Barbara Dalton / Kim Zuch
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