Madeira December 2007 – Very Large Post!

Do they each get a seat?

Of course. We can’t have ants standing for the entire journey, can we? Their 6 poor little legs would get tired. Each ant gets its own seat, and each seat is equipped with a PTV measuring 3mm x 2mm (huge if you’re as small as an ant). Also, because ants are tiny tiny creatures, the inside of the FlyAnt cabin actually has 60 levels. First class for the posh ants in the top 15 levels, business class for the ants in suits on the next 15, and the remaining 30 are economy for the normal ants.

And from the outside it just looks like a normal B737!

On a serious note I’m actually quite surprised at the responses so far in this thread, so again, thankyou for taking the time to reply. Your comments really are appreciated.

Paul

Do they each get a seat?

WOW and i thought Ryanair were the kings of squeezing as many seats into a B737 as possible 🙂

Ha! Nicely done!

How many ants? Hmm… I’ll make a random guess at 107,477,351. I suppose it would depend on how big the ants were, though. 107,477,351 was just a random guess for the average sized ant. If the ants were really big you might only be able to fit 87,842,811. Small ants you might be able to fit more, like 132,690,162.

Hmm… I’m not even drunk and I still talk nonsense!

Paul

Do they each get a seat?

Outstanding Paul, For me the two fuselage shots (EZY/TAP) are beautiful. Your ability to get the most out of a photo is sheer genius.

Si

OMG these photos are ultra good!! As said by others earlier, the night shots truly are awesome. Well done Paul. :D.

Funchal certainly was a good laugh and the weather was very kind to us. Even out of season this airport certainly is unique.
All fantastic pictures mate, and going slightly off of aviation, your images from Funchal town are simply in a class of their own – I would advise everyone to get onto Paul’s FLICKR account and have a look at them.
Thank you once again for a fantastic trip.

Adam

(All the way from Brizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzle)

Definately one of the most interesting and enjoyable sets of photos I have seen from you, Paul. So beautifully clear! The night shots have got to be my favourite.

Fly’ant’ is a strange one, though. Some prune will come up with flywasp or flyfly next….:p

I bet the ants have a great time on that 737, how many do you think it carries ?
😉

Ha! Nicely done!

How many ants? Hmm… I’ll make a random guess at 107,477,351. I suppose it would depend on how big the ants were, though. 107,477,351 was just a random guess for the average sized ant. If the ants were really big you might only be able to fit 87,842,811. Small ants you might be able to fit more, like 132,690,162.

Hmm… I’m not even drunk and I still talk nonsense!

Paul

Thankyou for your kind words, all. Positive comments really do make the whole process of shooting, editing and posting worthwhile, so thanks to everyone who’s commented so far. Paul

I bet the ants have a great time on that 737, how many do you think it carries ?
😉

Wonderful shots Paul, love the night shots. If I were to buy a camera like yours how much would it cost me? got a link? 😉

Dean

Cheers, Dean!

I used a combination of equipment. The night shots were taken using a Canon 350D and the standard 18-55 kit lens, and the rest were taken on a Canon 30D using a Sigma 50-500 lens (very kindly lent to me by Dan Nicholson while mine is awaiting repair). Both the 350D and 30D can be found here:

http://www.warehouseexpress.com/?/photo/digicameras/canon.html

And the Sigma 50-500 here:

http://www.warehouseexpress.com/?/photo/lenses/Sigmalens.html#zoom

Obviously you don’t actually need the two DSLR bodies, you just swap lenses and to all intents and purposes the image quality of the 350D is the same as the 30D anyway. Also you could get perfectly acceptable shots using a lens other than the 50-500, like the Canon EF 75-300 f4-5.6 III USM. In short, you could get gear that would give you similar quality for a total of £544 instead of the £2000-odd I paid for my toys!

Hope that helps, and feel free to drop me a PM if you need any more info.

Paul

Wonderful shots Paul, love the night shots. If I were to buy a camera like yours how much would it cost me? got a link? 😉

Dean

Some stunning stuff Paul. The Easy shot is my fav.

Raymy.

Thankyou for your kind words, all. Positive comments really do make the whole process of shooting, editing and posting worthwhile, so thanks to everyone who’s commented so far. I’m sure Adam and Tom (Tom’s address on Jetphotos can be found at the beginning of this thread) will be posting a good few superb shots from this trip, so keep an eye out for them!

Thanks again.

Paul

Paul…. WOW! 😮 Hard to pick a fave as each and everyone is so good!

This place is sooo up there on the must visit before i die list! I must look into it!

Thanks for sharing these!

Nice Shots, espically the Air Berlin pushing and the various night shots…

A great collection of inspiring photographs. Notice I said “photographs” as opposed to just shots or images.

Wonderful stuff! 🙂

Dam fine shots, and a nice change from the normal blighty ones. The 2nd pic of the Condor A320, my hasn’t it got rather large from wheels?:diablo:

First class pics.

wow!!!! if i could take shots like that, id be happy, do you use photoshop and shoot in raw????

jason

Thanks, Jason! Yes, I use CS3 and shoot all my aviation images in RAW. I find I can just get a little more at times shooting in RAW than I can JPEG. Plus, particularly with aviation images it’s easier to correct the many mistakes I make on the camera when I take the shot if I’m using RAW!

Thanks for your kind words so far, all.

Paul

wow!!!! if i could take shots like that, id be happy, do you use photoshop and shoot in raw????

jason