Feature: Flying on the Fuji blimp

In the mid-1990s I received the assignment from Forbes FYI magazine to take a hop on the Fuji blimp and write about and photograph the experience. A blimp ride is a pretty enjoyable experience, when the day is fairly calm. (Not as much when it isn't, as happened a few years later, when the Fuji blimp got wrecked on a windy day in Alabama; no one was hurt.) My favorite picture is the one that doesn't have the blimp in it at all.

And yes, I shot it on film and no, the film did not come in a yellow box.

In the mid-1990s I received the assignment from Forbes FYI magazine to take a hop on the Fuji blimp and write about and photograph the experience. A blimp ride is a pretty enjoyable experience, when the day is fairly calm. (Not as much when it isn't, as happened a few years later, when the Fuji blimp got wrecked on a windy day in Alabama; no one was hurt.) My favorite picture is the one that doesn…  (read more)

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