Nice site – can I make one small suggestion? Drilling down into the site I see you have some links to other photos, one of which is labelled as a Vickers Vulcan…only I think you meant Avro Vulcan. There was a Vickers type called the Vulcan, but it’s quite a bit smaller than the type you’ve photographed….
Is “west colonial cousins” a reference to the USA?
Seems very unusual for Fox in the USA to screen something like this, so I checked the Fox channel listings for tonight and it’s only the usual Sunday Night sitcoms. A Google of “B-24 Bomber Boys” came up empty.
The Cricket and Gomhouria are inside the museum, so you would probably have to queue to go in to see them. The rest are all outside, including a Wilga light plane, which you didn’t mention. If you are missing any photos, I can help out.
Albert,
Thanks for the offer, I’ll probably just go ahead with what I’ve got.
I don’t know the answer to that, it’s the first time I’ve seen that one flying, in fact I didn’t know there were any of that model on the airshow circuit.
Amazing photos. What equipment do you use?? I love the skyraider picture, absolutely superb!!!It would be nice to see some pyrotchnics at some shows in the uk
regards N Darby
The aerial shots were taken with a Canon 20D camera and Canon 100-400mm image stabilized lens, the runway shots with a Canon 1Ds and probably the 28-105mm lens.
Great pics specially the phantom, was that another drone or do the USAF have a special one as it looks pretty good ?
curlyboy
Yes, it’s a USAF QF-4 drone, the rectangular hump on the back is the giveaway. The air force painted four of them up in historic color schemes for our viewing pleasure, this one is in the standard south-east Asia scheme.
Good stuff, your compositions looks great and you seem to have the prop blur thing figured out nicely. Some of them look a little dark, perhaps it would help to dial in half a stop or more of exposure compensation, or you could try brightening them up in Photoshop of whatever photo editor you use. If you do brighten them up then you might also need to add a little more contrast to square things away.
Dammit, missed the Skyraider with the smoke behind it though! 🙁
Good to meet you for the first time Richard – hope to do it again sometime. You caught some nice pics too – do you want me to upload the “human interest” pics??? 😉
Andy
Good to meet you, too, Andy! Don’t forget, I have incriminating “human” interest pics of you, too! Feel free to post away!
Sign In
