05/06/12 - I head out to Frontier Skydiving to watch some people jump out of airplanes!

Windsocks are useful for soft landings

I get it

Look! Skydivers! I've never actually seen jumps in person

Floating down on a full canopy

The instructor landed first by spinning around and losing altitude

He made a perfect landing. Made it look easy

Time to collect the parachute

Heading back to the main building

I thought it was funny that since the camera was mounted to a helmet, they had to hold the whole helmet to take any pictures

A tandem jumper comes in for a landing

Turning around

Aaaand land on your butt!

Red Canopy Guy has gathered his chute

Time for the next load to go up!

Checking a tandem jumper's harness

Everyone get on board!

The tandem jumper and his instructor have collected their various lines

Takeoff!

The jump is underway!

You can see the drogue chute slowing and stabilizing the tandem jumpers

Chute deployment!

Let's see those canopies

Flying around

The tandem guys have a colorful canopy

Losing altitude by turning rapidly

Almost there

Turning into the wind

Final approach

Perfect landing!

I can't wait to try this myself

My favorite photo of the shoot

The parachute doesn't even look that big

Below the tree line!

Green Canopy comes in for a landing

The tandem guys have been floating around for a while

Collecting his canopy

Final turn

Legs up!

Touchdown!

That tandem chute is really huge

Meeting the jumpers in the field

Jumpers in freefall!

For these last few, I switched to the 50mm. The difference in quality is obvious

Lining up with the wind

They make it look so easy

A walk in the park, even

Running out to meet the jumpers after another successful landing

It isn't exactly a large operation

It looks like the jumper is actively kneeing this poor guy in the face

I took a peek at the repacking room

They seemed surprised I was interested

Double check!

Ready for another jump