Vintage Aerial Photographs of your farm

I know this is a tractor site but I think some of you will be interested in this. I work for an aerial photography company that has been in business since 1952 and they have taken over 24,000,000 aerial photos since then in 44 states. If your interested in an old aerial photograph of your farm from the 50's to today please check out my website and I would be happy to find a photo we have taken of your property.
http://www.vintageaerial.com/yt

Or... Google free aerials.

Gordo

Yeah, you guys come around the farm every couple of years peddling pictures. I have to say I am not impressed, with the "this is the last time you can get them before we clean out the vault" high pressure sales that the salemen put on you.

I also cant see spending hundreds of dollars for a painted picture of my own farm with some fancy frame around it. Seems to me you are selling the frames and the painting more than the pictures. You guys forget that the picture is only worth something to me, and it is not worth nearly that much. Sorry, but I am less than impressed.

Good luck selling pictures, but not to me...

The last guy that came to the farm with his freshly taken photos from a plane got his hind end in trouble. He was not a commercial rated pilot and used a rental plane from the local airport. Once I inquired at the airport, they refused to rent the plane and reported him as doing commercial photos on a private polit license. Axed that one in a hurry. If you want photos, airports will take you for a ride over your home for about 35 bucks. Take your own photos, 10 of them if you like.

like Gordo said Google earth and all you have to do
is put your address in .

[email protected]

I'm NOT taking up for the guy peddling pictures. I also haven't read the FFA regs of that area in quite some time. That being said the local airport has no reason to not renting him the plane if he is qualified. It isn't illegal to take photos from a airplane. IMHO he doesn't need a commercial license to do that. He is not getting paid to fly the plane, it is conjunction with his work. Example, Bill works for ABC company which has a plane and he flies it to different cities to inspect job sites. No commercial needed. Now if ABC company hires John to fly bill to job sites John would need a commercial license. Now here is the big hole. Let's say Sam works at the local airport as a salesman and Bob comes in to buy an airplane. Sam can go up and demonstrate the plane and let Bob fly it and Sam doesn't need commercial or instructors rating.

I checked the site and there is nothing earlier than the 1980's. That's not vintage. You can't search to see if your farm is there without giving them contact information. This one is dead on arrival.

I have bought two or three of the traveling salesman type photos of my farm. I also go up occasionally and take my own. I think my days of buying them are over. I now have a fairly expensive Cannon digital and like to play with it. I'll take my own. I have a buddy that will fly me around for a tank of gas. Well worth the dough.

Oh, I almost forgot. Those traveling guys will really dicker. NEVER take their first price. They will take half of what they first ask.

Gene

I got a picture from them from the 60's just this year. They are expensive but I really wanted to see how my farm has been changing. So I bought the picture that was 20 years older than me and was happy with it. Also got to look through 50-60 pictures of farms in the neighborhood. Kinda fun if you have the time.

I hold a comercial ticket. The type of pilot you are has no bearing on selling pictures. It only applies to what I can charge you if you want or need me to fly you some where. Private equals actual costs...Commercial is what ever I want.

Gene

They better dicker for what they are charging, but I have never had any luck with them. Heck I offered to buy the little black and white picture he had with him that he was showing me and marking all over with no frame and he would not sell it to me?? I dont get it..

All I wanted was the small black and white one, not the "over the fireplace" monster painted picture, but I guess they cant sell the frames and the paint that way...

I'm not going to go through the whole range of differences Dave and I have on this issue. I like Dave, but he and I will likely never agree on this issue.

He's in law enforcement and has had some departmental training in what constitutes commercial use of a vehicle. That training (usually provided by outside consultants) takes the view that any compensation, or potential for compensation, even something so trivial as the possibility of winning nothing more than a red ribbon for having the second-nicest tractor at a a show, constitutes compensation, and therefore classifies your operaton as commercial. If you tip the scales over 10,000# on your way to or from the tractor show, he will argue and write tickets based on the lack of a DOT number and all that goes with that.

As it relates to planes, his interpretation would ground a lot of young pilots who fly blood for the Red Cross as they try to build their hours so they can start and document IFR training, compensated only by a meal chit and fuel reimbursement.

It's not a personal gripe with him, it's the training and severely strained definition of commerce that I have a beef with.

I used to be a part of the FFA ,but I dont remember governing over aerial photographs.We mainly studied the Owl,The Plow,The ear of corn,and the rising sun,and we wore them pretty blue coats

Last one I bought,feller came by showed me the picture,asked $100.I told him I wasnt giving no 100 bucks.He said"Ya give 40 bucks for it?",but a Lady showed up the other day with a new picture,she never made a second offer on her picture.Stuck up broad kinda made me mad

Thats one of the dumbest things Ive ever heard.Im a commercial driver,so I suppose that qualifies me to drive around and take pictures from my truck for re-sale.Or I could just hire someone with a commercial pilots license for a couple hours,and then go sell my pictures

Here is a aerial photo of my wives home farm in Iowa. She inheritied it from her parents and it was taken in the forties Sure glad we got it.
gitrib
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Too Far Gone,
You got me! FFA don't He He He. But sub in FAA. Hay, I had one of those jackets with the big patch on the back. I believe the jackets were corduroy, weren't they?

Mormons, huh? :>))

Sorry,I had to do it.Ive still got my jacket in the closet

Wow, we have got a good discussion going on here. I'm impressed with you guys, very active group on here. I would like to reply to some of the post on here just to make things clear to everyone. If you read the origional post I stated that the photos I have are vintage hence the name of our company Vintage Aerial. As I stated we have a library of over 24,000,000 aerial images that have been taken over the past 40 plus years. You will not find these photos anywhere else, Google doesn't have them, Microsoft doesn't have them, no one does. What you get from these other sources is a satalite view and they are much more current then the photos we have. As Vintage Aerial we are not in the business of selling current photos, what we have are photos from the past 40 plus years that show much of the history of rural America. While Google maps and others might be fine for someone wanting that type of thing and I totaly understand that. But what I'm offering is a much higher quality image that might date back to the 1950's. One thing you will notice with Google and others is that when you get outside of a populated area the quality goes way down. Our images were taken with cameras using fixed wing aircraft with properly rated commercial pilots following all FAA rules and regulations. The United States is a big place and we do not have every square inch of it photographed. But we do have a good portion of it and some of our photos date back to when we started in 1952. Our goal at Vintage Aerial is to connect the photographs of these rural American properties we have taken over the last 40 plus years with the people who lived and grew up in these places. One thing to remember is that there are many aerial photography companies out there and they are not all alike. The main thing I'm trying to do here is share these photos with the people connected to them and let them decide if they would like to purchase one of our photos. I'm not knocking on anyones door and using any high pressure sales tatics. I enjoy sharing these wonderful photos with the people who know them best. This is all done at no obligation to anyone. If you give me the address I will search our library for your photo. If I can find it, which we are able to do most of the time. I will share this photo with you online so you can view it and this will cost you absolutely nothing. Then you decide if you would like to own this photograph.

As Splitz said in his post, we enjoy sharing these historic photos with our customers.

I will close in saying this. I own and operate my own aerial photography company www.aerialopportunites.com along with working for Vintage Aerial and what many of the people have said on here is TRUE!. If you would like a aerial photograph you can go to your local airport and rent a plane and pilot if you are not one, which I am a Commercial Pilot by the way. Using our own camera you can probably take some decent photos. I would recomend using at least a 10 mega-pixel camera if you want to enlarge the photo to anything more then a 8x10 and never shoot your photo through the plexiglass windows. Open them up and take your photo through an open window. You can get a photo of your property as it is today. But like I said Vintage Aerial is trying to connect people with old photographs and I do not know of any airplane on the market yet that can fly back in time to allow you to take an aerial photo of your property from the 1960's.

If you would like to see if we have an aerial photograph of your property with NO OBLIGATION to you please go to our site at http://www.vintageaerial.com/yt

I would be glad to share them with you. Then you decide if you would like one.

Thanks for your time!

Spence Gray

Don't feel sorry, I should have proof read it better. Besides you made me remember some good times from 55 years back.

Mannnnnnnnnn; if everyone started selling their stuff on here, there wouldn't be room to talk religion, politics and other controversial subjects; of course, some of us are 'special' and don't need to follow the rules.........me included.

But dontcha luv em.. make a good farm manager, no bull.

Did they have silo unloader's in the 40's/50's or were the unloader's a person with a fork,big arms and a sore back?

we drill water wells for a liveing want to buy a water well? no vintage all new stuff.

In the late 70's I helped fork down silage many a time on the neighbors farm. Then climb down and shovel it into the feeding troughs after that.
I thought it was one of the more fun jobs.
Can't imagine many of today's youth climbing the silo doors, let alone doing the rest of it.

When This silo was first comstucted it was emptied with silage fork. If you look at the picture you can see it was added on to and at tis time a loader was added with a auger running the length of the barn. Burr ground corn was added and mixed in the auger. Many a load of cattle toped the Omaha market year after year. and no they were not Menninites just plain old English
gitrib

I would be happy to provide the phone number and name of the individual. It became quite obvious that the airport took it more personal than I did. I would have called it more of a conversation piece than anything. And the fact that this was long before I began to drive a vehicle with any lights on it. I have a good relationship with the fella in question today. He still has been unable to rent any aircraft from our local airport. He was a part time photographer for another individual. Had been flying N6621V. A 172 retractable.

We still have a couple of them.I'm 35 now,I remember when I was 15 we put our first one up.We used to run a pile on the floor twice a day in the fall/winter/spring about 5 feet high and fork it into wheel barrows and haul it to the cows.They loved to run the bowls over and soak as much of it as they could so we would have to fork about a quarter of it back up twice a day before hauling it back out.Now we have a free stall barn on the end of the old tie stall and park a 70 cu' feed cart under the chute and let it fill.They can't get it wet anymore and if they don't eat it all,we can scoop it up with the skid loader.I do miss my good old days,but not that much that I would want to do it that way anymore.I tell all the young fellas that work here over the years how we used to do it when I was their age and they say we couldn't pay them enough to do it that way lol.