And here I present to you, one of my first photo threads in avery long time! This weekend I flew to Dusseldorf on BA, outbound on 767-300 G-BNWZ on Saturday morning and inbound on A319 G-EUPA Sunday evening. Both of them great flights, the 767 was very empty however as you will soon see. I was accompanied by Stuart (RIPConcorde). The weather on the Saturday was an absolute let down, so I did my best to make up for it on Sunday. Here is a very small selection of my efforts that I’ve had chance to quickly edit so far. There should be atleast another batch coming up shortly, as I eventually get time to edit them all. Keep a look out, and enjoy these in the meantime. I’m afraid they’re all pretty rushed and compressed edits, but they should be ok.
The first was a handheld 2 second exposure at Heathrow before my departure, the lights in the background are that of a Swiss A320 landing on 27L.
And here’s with the rest, starting with our empty economy cabin onboard G-BNWZ.
By: wannabe pilot - 1st November 2006 at 23:42
Thanks for the kind comments everyone, they’re all very much appreciated! I’ll get a second batch on the way asap, hopefully before or over the weekend.
By: aidoair - 1st November 2006 at 18:45
Great shots there. Is it me or dont the overhead lockers on the BA 763 photo look different to the standard ones?
By: philgatwick05 - 1st November 2006 at 18:42
Stunning Dan 😮 😀
Love that LHR shot – look forward to part II 🙂
By: manchestersam - 1st November 2006 at 17:55
Great quality pictures there mate!)
By: Future Pilot - 1st November 2006 at 16:37
Fantastic selection mate! real sharp and crystal clear images :).
By: tomfellows - 1st November 2006 at 15:49
Truly excellent photos Dan! Glad you appeared to have a nice time:).
By: RIPConcorde - 1st November 2006 at 15:41
Excellent shots as ever Dan, cheers for the good weekend. I might even get round to posting some of mine soon, not that they are going to come close to the immense quality of the shots here. 😉 I look forward to seeing some more!
By: LBARULES - 1st November 2006 at 15:27
Awesome as ever Dan! Love the Onur, EK and Delta especially!
By: wannabe pilot - 1st November 2006 at 15:14
Cheers Elgan and James! Yup I think the Dutch are notorious for giving a good old wave…you should have seen 5 seconds later he had his hand out the window waving up and down!
By: Manston Airport - 1st November 2006 at 12:26
Great shots there Dan like the KLM Cityhopper F50 shot the best. Wonder what the cargo was.
James
By: bmi-star - 1st November 2006 at 12:06
Great to see the same high quality shots from you Dan, after what happened!
EK 773 looks bloody amazing there, nice to get the wave form the KLM FO too!
By: wannabe pilot - 1st November 2006 at 07:46
Cheers for all the kind comments! As I say, that’s only a very small proportion out of 150 or so editable shots.
I’d say DUS is worth it yes, but you rely very much on the weather. It’s not like MAN where if it’s raining you can hope to catch a few different shots such as 747’s blowing the rain off the runway. Firstly there are few heavy movements (that’s not to say thee movements are boring!) and secondly, the terraces are near the thresholds at both ends of the runway. In other words, there’s very little you can do in crappy weather, and nearly a whole day of photos on Saturday will probably just sit on my hard drive forever cos they just don’t look exciting at all.
On the other hand…get some Sun…you got nice movements (UK guys would particularly like Aeroflot Tupolevs, the German charter fleets, and various others like S7, Sun Express, MAT, Pulkovo, Privatair etc.) and 2 great viewing terraces, either allowing for parking/ramp/taxi shots, or approach/hold/touchdown shots.
Jamie: I have since been told that the 763 is used because it’s stuffed with cargo going out to Germany every morning.
By: G-PIK - 1st November 2006 at 07:45
Nice pics there mate, I was there for 3 or 4 days in the summer, one of the best places for photography I have ever been to 🙂
By: PMN - 1st November 2006 at 06:59
Superb shots, Dan, good to finally see you posting again. DUS is on the ‘to do’ list!
Paul
By: paulc - 1st November 2006 at 06:23
Dusseldorf is worth going to – excellent photographic facilities with a good variety of traffic. Am going there on 17th Nov.
By: steve rowell - 1st November 2006 at 03:42
Most excellent shots….very enjoyable!!
By: RingwaySam - 1st November 2006 at 02:55
Excellent shots, Dan! Is Dusseldorf worth going? Im hoping to go on a mini trip for my birthday and am looking for suggestions 🙂
By: Tartan Pics - 1st November 2006 at 00:14
Fabulous shots Dan.
Very crisp and clear, looks like you got great conditions at DUS.
Loving both the AB A320’s.
By: Jamie_787 - 31st October 2006 at 23:38
Fabtastic shots , like the first 2 second exposure. So you flew out on a B763 to Dusseldorf. Any ideas how it was such a big aircraft ?.
Regards
Jamie
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