1/28/11 – 9:06 AM
Beautiful Pink Sunrise!
Category: CARGO’S LAST STAND Page 4 of 11
1/24/11
Crew Quarters – 767
1/23/11
“Smile”
Heli nose
Through a 24mm-wide lens
1/14/11 – 10:50 AM
The floor sweeper stirred up some dust off of which
the low sun shines 4 beams of warm-colored light toward just below the camera.
2D can’t quite capture the 3D-seen effect,
but it’s still cool.
Significant tone tweaking was done digitally.
1/6/11
First Cornerman photo in new (old) building
to commemorate the first day wearing Delta uniforms.
Delta wouldn’t allow a union patch on Delta shirts,
so they only sent us pants
until a few days ago,
when the shirts arrived,
since we’re no longer union.
Most of us wore our NWA uniforms until this day,
of which most were gray.
My favorite black shirt was an earlier edition.
Self-portrait
LX5
1/5/11
Steve icebreaking
1/2/11 10:01 AM
The south-facing garage windows were all pink —
first time I’ve seen that!
The thermometer reading 40 degrees,
water was standing on some of the ice,
reflecting these SUPER pinks!
12/30/10 3:00 PM
Don pulls the pin after disconnecting the towbar
on the taxiway behind Delta freight
12/30/10 2:11 PM
Waiting for de-icing so I can push my second 767,
having pushed my first, 3 hours earlier.
I adjusted the mirror for self-portrait action in these photos.
12/12/10 – 11 AM
(an hour after sunrise,
facing north)
The garage door windows throw pairs of spotlights
on the forklift, the scale and the wall
when the sun is so low in the sky,
9 days before winter solstice.
Official sunrise and sunset:
10:06 AM | 3:41 PM
Contrast and blacks tweaked for emphasis
12/12/10
Still using the Taylor (diesel forklift)
to handle China Air pallets
3:30 am 1/2/09
Blue Room
Joshua typing in ramp conditions:
“USE CAUTION ON NW …”
1/7/09
Freight floor sink icicle in our 2001-10 warehouse
I can show this now that we have great heat
having moved back to our old facility.
Some bid the freight floor so they wouldn’t have to freeze outside,
but maybe it’s worse freezing inside!
The contractor bought used, obsolete, foreign made heaters
for which some parts weren’t even available.
The love of money realized.
11/27/10
Leads Steve and Carson
Extreme wide-angle lens
creates the widening effect
in this actually fairly small room
e.g.: the elongated microwave on the left
Don and I started working together for NWA in Anchorage in 1980,
and we’re still work together today.
He’s in some of the recent cargo photos.
Here he is playing percussion with H3,
one month ago.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3sFr_NJqG4]H3 Reggae Band world music festival. Anchorage. Alaska
pacarro907 | October 30, 2010
U2 “cover” with or without you
11/17/10 9:03 AM
From: ABC News
Delta Ground Workers Reject Union
MINNEAPOLIS November 18, 2010 (AP)
Unions lost their second big vote at Delta Air Lines on Thursday, with fleet service workers rejecting the union that had represented the same group at Northwest Airlines.
The voting by 13,104 baggage handlers and other fleet service workers ended with 52.5 percent of them voting for no union, according the National Mediation Board, the federal agency that runs airline union elections.
Delta is mostly non-union except its pilots. But labor got a foot in the door when Delta absorbed heavily unionized Northwest in 2008.
The election that ended Thursday was to see whether the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers would represent the combined workers, or none of them. Roughly 5,000 of those Delta workers had come from Northwest.
11/6/10
11/2/10
Steve fixes the roof
One of my leads, going way back to 1980, Ed Habeger was in a serious car accident and is in serious (but not critical) condition in a Minnesota hospital right now, from what I’ve heard.
It looks like it’s going to be a tough rehab.
Unfortunately, I don’t think I have any photos of Ed on this blog, as he and many others took the early out (retirement) just before I started taking numerous photos back on day shift.
Another man who I worked with going back to 1980, also retired recently and moved with his wife to the lower 48. He just discovered he has really bad cancer. I’m not sure he would want his name mentioned online. I’ll just give the first initial of his first name, ‘H.’
My prayers and thoughts are with you both.
God bless!
Jeff
So you wanted to see our freight floor …
9/11/10
This is an example of how cool the LX5’s special 16:9 mode
in conjunction with the wider-than-G11’s 24mm lens.
No other pocket camera could have captured this shot
like this.
10/1/10
Don and God-beams
© Jeff Fenske
8/4/10
The wands are awaiting the wingwalking
of this ferry flight (no passengers).
Our new (renovated old building) freight facility
is at the right side of this stone-faced building.
Alaska Air Cargo and Alaska’s hanger is on the right.
We used to transload three red tail 747F freighters here,
back in the 20th century.
Now we (Delta) just handle freight,
carried on the passenger planes.
Also, above the left wand, where we work, stands two people,
who look like bright dots in this jpeg:
my lead, Paul, has an orange vest;
my manager, Steve, is in blue.
5/20/10
A Tire Runs Over It
John and I were painting the floor
(new yellow over old yeller),
when I noticed that the paint that dripped from John’s roller
left an interesting design.
The dark marks on the left look like it was made by a tire,
so the title is a play on words on: A River Runs Through It.
Related:
Freight Floor Art: Palletines
5/8/10 – 6:30 am
I taylorized this shadow of me in the Taylor,
projected onto the taxiway’s gravelly support wall
.
What follows is the non-taylorized version
5/8/10
I taylorized this shadow of me in the Taylor.
© Jeff Fenske
5/6/10
One of my jobs during the move was to transport the four dumpsters
to the new facility with the Taylor —
a slow and rocky three mile journey
across almost the entire airport —
with this gorgeous view!