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Eric T. Wright – From 1,000 Feet
The Gadsden Times staffer Eric T. Wright used a very steady platform for his aerial work, the Goodyear blimp.
There’s not a lot of information in his Sportshooter gallery describing the date and time of the trip and there’s nothing on the blimp blog to give an accurate hint. It was in town in October for a wedding and to cover NASCAR. Wright’s blog has some photos from that trip but nothing from the aerial series that includes the coal field above, a track, cotton, and a power transfer station.
Not knowing when the photos were shot doesn’t lessen the impact of Wright’s nine images for the Times 2 edition of the paper.
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Thanks for the pickup. The Sportsshooter upload was just a quick one and I didn’t get a chance to fill put my caption fields in their system. The Goodyear Blimp was in town on October 6, 2008 as it stopped by to give rides to some employees and families from the local Goodyear Plant. The airship had just been to Talladega Superspeedway to serve as a TV platform for the NASCAR race there. The wedding was actually a spur of the moment type thing and was planned only at the 11th hour. I was up in the blimp to shoot employees riding, but I ended up grabbing some fun aerials when I sat in the front seat. We were able to cruise around Gadsden and Etowah County checking out various places that struck our fancy, and for the record that shot is not so much a coal field as a coal mixing pile at a local power plant.