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dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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Pellicola has served me well — both as a way to learn PHP by building a real-world application and as a platform for publishing my photos. But with a heavy heart, I've come to the realization that this humble bundle of mediocre code is...
Just a quick recap of what we've been up to lately. We spent the last week of summer in Zurich. Right after breakfast on Sunday, I headed to the airport, and later that day I joined an Airsidefoto tour.
Another Sky scraper update, and it’s a substantial one. Sky scraper is designed to work with data flowing from readsb, which requires an ADS-B receiver and an antenna. But if you don’t have either of these, and you still want to monitor...
A weekend with good weather means bike rides to NUE and days spent capturing airplanes. My catch last weekend wasn’t all that impressive. The only interesting addition to my library was a Learjet 75 operated by Polish Air Ambulance (reg....
Last Monday, I finally managed to capture a Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules exactly the way I wanted it.
Saturday before last, we went on a road trip with our friends to the Technik Museum Speyer . Of course, I was looking to see their airplane collection that included an An-22 and a variety of other vintage airplanes.
Oh, no! ANA Retires Star Wars R2-D2 Boeing 787 livery 😢 I'm so grateful that I had a chance to see and capture it.
There haven't many Sky scraper-related updates for a while, mainly because it's summer, and I prefer to spend most of my spare time chasing airplanes. But the weather during last two weeks of July wasn't exactly conducive to any sort of...
I went for an overnight trip to FRA. And it goes without saying that I spent Sunday afternoon and Monday morning at Zeppelinheim capturing airplanes. The light was meh, but I did manage to catch a handful of interesting machines,...
Last weekend, planted firmly on my regular spot in NUE, waiting for something to capture, I was wondering about a sudden, and seemingly inexplicable, increase in number of blurry frames. To paraphrase: We have met the culprit, and he is...
Last night, when I learned that Ozzy had passed away, I listened to Black Sabbath. It felt like I was back in my uni days, smoking, drinking, and discussing whatever deep shit we thought we were discussing with my mates. Thank you,...
I've recently started using Kleinanzeigen, and I was pleased to discover that there are plenty of enticing stuff at prices that are often lower than those on eBay. Long story short, I've down-upgraded my photography setup: I splurged on...
With a heatwave making an appearance in our part of the world last week, we decided to escape to Frankfurt am Main and work from a pleasantly cool room in the Staycity aparthotel — with a bonus of capturing airplanes in my spare time.
Here's the latest addition to my modest library of aviation books: Airbus - von der A300 bis zur A380 und A350 By Norbert Andrup. I managed to snatch it from a third-party Amazon seller for a paltry sum of €20.54 + shipping.
My plan to spend the entire Monday in NUE capturing airplanes was in motion way earlier and in a more hectic fashion than I expected. I checked Flightradar24 the moment I woke up (as I usually do), and I could see that a German...