A nice sunny, but cold afternoon at Valley. Unusually, runway 01 was in use, so a short trek across the beach was required to catch some landing shots from an area I’d never seen them land at before – and my word, do they come in low over the beach!
And thanks to Tyenoodle for keeping me informed on flying conditions in the morning.
Enjoy –
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2. Poor old XX196, never seen her left out in the open before
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4. I wonder where the end of the runway is? Ah, there!
5. You can just see the red and white of the Hunter Gate Guardian between the Hawks
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9. Duck!
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11. 18mm lens, no crop!
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13. Not a great shot, but my first in-flight wave!
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16. Give us a smile!
17. And a wave
18. And a wave from Wg Cdr Hill!
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Hope you like!
Comments very welcome, hopefully these are a bit different to what we normally see!
Steve
By: mike currill - 5th November 2008 at 18:27
I couldn’t resist trying a crop on photo No.11, cropped on the left, original on the right
Any opinions?
Steve
Definitely not the kind of place you’d want to undershoot methinks.
By: Manston Airport - 3rd November 2008 at 15:39
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1297690
Crashed at Mona last year, pilot got out safely thankfully
Steve
Oh its that one 😮 at first I thought it was the hawk that crashed at RAF Cranwell that was to become a Red Arrow.
James
By: Lady_Snake - 3rd November 2008 at 03:31
I liked the original.
By: bms44 - 2nd November 2008 at 13:41
It’s always a matter of opinion, for me the one on the right works better, I’d maybe crop just a little off the beach to bring the aircraft slightly lower: but I do like the overall effect very much. 🙂
By: Arabella-Cox - 2nd November 2008 at 09:50
Very nice, did you shoot in raw? Could make 3 shots and convert into a hdr picture. Would look ace with that sky 🙂
By: wcfcfan - 2nd November 2008 at 00:29
I couldn’t resist trying a crop on photo No.11, cropped on the left, original on the right
Any opinions?
Steve
By: wcfcfan - 2nd November 2008 at 00:20
Thankyou for your comments.
I got quite a few shots similar to that, but picked the best couple to go on here. No. 11 is posted here straight off the camera, no photo-shopping at all, maybe it would look better with a crop but I wanted to give the impression that it was rapidly heading towards to viewer, just about to take your head off or send you deaf!
Of all the places I’ve shot at, this is the lowest I have seen fast jets come in over your head, but I have far from been everywhere. I’m just glad a Harrier didn’t show up of else I probably would have gone deaf! (Probably one of the loudest a/c I can think of, off the top of my head)
EDIT – I tell a lie about photoshopping, I think I may have lightened it up a bit as it was a bit under-exposed.
By: bms44 - 2nd November 2008 at 00:02
Excellent shots Steve, thanks for posting. Such clear close-ups of the aircraft always welcome, but No 11 particularly appeals to my artistic side ; very well composed and skillfully framed with the moody clouds ; not much time to compose the shot : what would he be doing? 125 knots or so? : it would make an attractive poster. Cheers. 😎
By: wcfcfan - 1st November 2008 at 23:36
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1297690
Crashed at Mona last year, pilot got out safely thankfully
Steve
By: Manston Airport - 1st November 2008 at 23:24
Great shots there thanks for sharing 😎 Just wondering what happened to XX196?
James
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st November 2008 at 17:59
Looks like him, he’s a 19 squadron qfi. Only person I have seen keep a hawk in the air for 2 hours lol
By: wcfcfan - 1st November 2008 at 11:48
I think that is him in Pic 19 as well, I’ve got the order a little muddled
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st November 2008 at 11:40
Good pics! The guy smiling in pic 16 s Phil ‘Baywatch’. A true nutter of a pilot, top bloke too not yer average flyboy 😉
196 needs something doing to it, god knows what the poor studes think taxying past it towards the runway 😮
Nice shots from the beach!
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