When you get a top image – and no one else thinks the same!!

James,
Yes they are still flying, I was working with them in May. They are getting pretty old now and leak fuel from every orifice (including panel seams). The pilots are extremely professional as were the maintainers dispite there rather unauthordox ways of maintaining the jets. Most of the pilots are leaving the Harriers to train up on the new Mig 29MK which is an unbelievable machine.

All the best

Si

Cheers for info So the Indian Navy are the only one’s who fly Sea Harriers?

Regards
James

Nice shot danny, the 747 looks sweet like that – like i said in my original post, im never gonna stop taking photos in “contre-jour” lighting, especially backlit ones..I LOVE EM
even if JP & AF cant appreciate this kind of creative imagery

Mark

Great shots there.Si do you know if the Indian Navy still fly Sea Harriers?

James

James,
Yes they are still flying, I was working with them in May. They are getting pretty old now and leak fuel from every orifice (including panel seams). The pilots are extremely professional as were the maintainers dispite there rather unauthordox ways of maintaining the jets. Most of the pilots are leaving the Harriers to train up on the new Mig 29MK which is an unbelievable machine.

All the best

Si

I know the feeling. Here’s a shot I took at sunrise at Heathrow last August. It was a BA 747 which did a go-around right above my head, and you can see it climbing away with the wheels just tucking in. It eventually got accepted on jp.net but no-one else seemed to like it as much as I thought it might.

Great shots there.Si do you know if the Indian Navy still fly Sea Harriers?

James

Great shot Mark.

A smashing shot IMO Mark!, One possible reasoning i can see for the rejection is that the aircraft may be somewhat small on the overall image? downright petty a reason it would be! The rejection reasons are increasingly bizarre on some of these sites. Personally i wouldnt get too bothered, I am sick of submitting shots with feeble rejection reasoning.
A well taken shot,Mark. as long as you know it then stuff what some screener who never got his jolly’s last night thinks!!

Mark, I wouldn’t let it bother you mate…I am sick and tired of sending what I think (and others) good photos to a certain .net site and I have had 2 accepted in 3 years. I also get frustrated when I compare my shots to some of the shots that are accepted and se the quality is inferior to mine but they have a 100% acceptance rate. They ask for rare shots yet I sent them a selection of photos of Indian Navy Sea Harriers
which I was recently working with and they rejected it saying there wasn’t enough information….Indian Navy Sea Harriers don’t have registrations only a 2 digit side number and it was on a ship in the Arabian Sea (which I told them).these aircraft are rare (they loose at least 1 a year in accidents)..so mate I gave up! Anyway off my soap box, your phot is excellent and well composed and awesome lighting…..keep it up!

Si

Yer It’s definately a Monarch from where I’m sitting:). Great shot, love things like that. Have another go at getting it on.

ooops…posted wrong image ….got abt 5 similar…sorry folks

The aircraft is EI-DEE landing at Manchester on 06L

Looks like Monarch to me mate! 😉

I’d give it a shot at JP though, it’s a nice shot.

I love it! Really nice shot. Did you try JP, they are a bit more relaxed with “atmosphere shots” (hate that word) like this.